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Navigating architectural challenges—from 'unbuildable' to unbelievable

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Mick Schaefer, AIA, NCARB, LEED GA MFPRO+ Blog Senior Living Design Designers Designers / Specifiers / Landscape Architects Coronavirus The architectural domain constantly offers challenges. The Hill The selected site, located on the south side of Cape Girardeau, Missouri, was anything but typical. The "unbuildable" hill.

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8 strategies for multifamily passive house design projects

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Brett Lambert MFPRO+ Blog MFPRO+ New Projects Mixed-Use Multifamily Housing Designers Standards Reconstruction & Renovation Sustainable Development Sustainable Design and Construction It’s official: passive house design standards are coming to Massachusetts. It is a 22.7-acre acre semi-urban, mixed-use redevelopment. That’s a win-win!

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Marketing Industrialized Construction to Consumers

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Marketing Industrialized Construction to Consumers. If you build it off-site, will they come? The bulk of that chatter focused on the sustainability and affordability aspects that off-site methods promise, but also on improved durability and reduced build time. Tue, 06/07/2022 - 05:00. Stacey Freed. Census Bureau.

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The Magic and Mystery of Machu Pichu

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The site receives up to 80 inches of rain annually, sits atop steep landslide-prone slopes, and lies upon active fault lines. Machu Picchu was a royal estate, constructed at the command of the ruler Pachacuti, who founded the Inca Empire. It is famous for its intricate, masterful stone masonry. They standardized it,” Ruth says.

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The Home Building Technology Revolution, Part III: The Missing Link

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From the articles, blogs, and YouTube videos touting new technology as the answer to nearly every problem in our industry, you’d think so. . Meanwhile, 73%—nearly 10 times as many—see recruiting and training the next generation of skilled construction workers as the answer. And that’s just on the construction (that is, product) side.

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News About Earthbags Solving Climate Problems

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This is why Paula Paoli and Owen Ingley are in Las Marías, Puerto Rico, and hope to introduce a new construction technique that helps homeowners avoid the destruction of houses in the future. The couple founded Plenitud , a nonprofit educational farm and community in the western part of the island.

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What Labor Shortage? Not All Home Builders Affected Equally

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The huge increase in national unemployment, if it had arrived in a more typical recessionary period, would have dealt a massive blow to home building, leaving millions in construction among those unable to find work. What Labor Shortage? Not All Home Builders Affected Equally. Wed, 06/09/2021 - 06:00. Scott Sedam, Contributing Editor.