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“Once-in-a-Generation” Opportunity for Women in Construction: Infrastructure Investment & Jobs Act

Autodesk Construction Cloud

The Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA) is a “once-in-a-generation” investment in America’s national infrastructure. With this plan, the goal is to rebuild many of the bridges, rails, and roads throughout the country to improve the overall infrastructure across America. construction industry. Women make up only 4.5%

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6 guideposts for cities to create equitable transit-oriented developments

BD+C

With demand, rents and property values increase, and the people who called the neighborhood home before the infrastructure improvements took place are priced out. However, there is a purposeful shift under way toward a concept that prioritizes equity at every step of the process to enable inclusive communities around transit stops.

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Landmark Contractor Licensing Case Limits Disgorgement Remedy in California

Construction and Infrastructure Law

Dist, B297247), filed August 26, 2020, the Court makes two significant holdings. In a new opinion addressing issues of “first impression” (i.e., never ruled on previously), Eisenberg Village of the Los Angeles Jewish Home for the Aging v. Suffolk Construction Company, Inc. (2d

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Landmark Contractor Licensing Case Limits Disgorgement Remedy in California

Construction and Infrastructure Law

Dist, B297247), filed August 26, 2020, the Court makes two significant holdings. In a new opinion addressing issues of “first impression” (i.e., never ruled on previously), Eisenberg Village of the Los Angeles Jewish Home for the Aging v. Suffolk Construction Company, Inc. (2d

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7 Construction Industry Truths Made Clear at Autodesk University

Autodesk Construction Cloud

trillion in global construction industry costs in 2020. The additional infrastructure needs or talent required to be successful in life-cycle data collection & analysis. According to a recent global report made in partnership between Autodesk and FMI, decision-making based on “bad” data may have impacted upwards of $1.85

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Dispute Boards: An Approach to the Efficient Resolution of Disputes in the Construction Sector

Constructlaw

As published in Dispute Resolution Magazine, volume 26, issue 3, September 2020. Indeed, complex infrastructure and other construction mega-projects, whether domestic or international, are often lengthy, highly technical, and involve multi-tiered commercial relationships in which parties have millions, if not billions, of dollars at stake. [1]

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Federal Facilities – Implementation of Energy Savings Projects and Performance-Based Contracting for Energy Savings

Building Information Management

Subject to the protection of critical infrastructure information and avoidance of disclosure of sensitive information relating to national security, FEMP shall annually publish these results, as well as facility energy usage data, in machine readable formats on agency websites, consistent with applicable OMB guidance. (ii) BARACK OBAMA.