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This Home Design Exemplifies Housing's Future

Pro Builder

On HorizonTV this week, get a look inside (and out) of the New New Home, designed for the wants and needs of post-COVID homebuyers, including multiple, well-scaled work and workout zones, outdoor living, and flex spaces that exemplify housing's future. Watch the video below. Watch more from HorizonTV here. . . Show Village.

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Stretching Outside of Your Comfort Zone and Learning from Unexpected Places

ENR Construction

Energy consultant Patrick Long sees opportunies for construction and other fields to adapt ideas and technologies from other industries.

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Your Business Plan and Your Building

Wolgast Corporation

Some businesses can operate anywhere and will be able to easily get a rental cost number to plug into their plan, but other operations need a more robust and well developed idea of a building designed for their particular use.

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Desert Comfort: Next-Gen HVAC and Indoor Air Quality

Pro Builder

A more efficient conditioned air distribution system optimizes zoned heating, cooling, and fresh-air ventilation equipment for ideal indoor comfort. ton variable refrigerant flow (VRF) zone-controlled heat pump system to provide space heating and cooling. Desert Comfort: Next-Gen HVAC and Indoor Air Quality. Wed, 09/28/2022 - 12:05.

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Planning reform should be a new Government priority

Construction Law

Other benefits would be to reduce the ‘burden of environmental assessments’, reduce bureaucracy in the consultation process, reform habitats and species regulations and increase flexibility to make changes to a Development Consent Order once it has been submitted. Or the new regime could have even better ideas. Nick Barrett.

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DebunkTheBIM: Have you got any idea how silly you look and sound?

DebunkTheBIM

Have you got any idea how silly you look and sound? I also sympathize with the pain that you must be experiencing, as a fish out-of-the water, pushed from your comfort zone, but hey, it is time to change tack, simple bluff will no longer work. Have you got any idea how silly you look and sound. ▼ May. (6). ► April.

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Stay Home Learn BIM: week 3 – Be wary of the Bully BIM! (bonus Easter Egg Hunt)

DebunkTheBIM

At its premise is the idea, that following semi-independent work done by many consultants (in model-base or otherwise) an automated procedure identifies the clashes of spatially conflicting elements and highlights them. Using technology to eliminate (or at least minimize) such issues on the construction site makes sense.

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