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This Company Wants to Rent Out Tiny Homes in Your Backyard

Pro Builder

Would you sign a 99 year lease to rent out your backyard? With our company, we’re always looking at what the alternative models are that we can utilize to help build more affordable, accessible, sustainable housing,” says Declan Keefe, cofounder of CoEverything, which focuses on how to bring better practices to architecture and development.

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Transforming shopping malls into 21st century neighborhoods

BD+C

Marc Asnis, AICP MFPRO+ Blog University Buildings Healthcare Facilities Mixed-Use Apartments Retail Centers Shopping Centers Designers Architects Adaptive Reuse Exterior Restoration Interior Architecture Sustainability Sustainable Development The death of the 20th century shopping mall is evident all across the country.

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6 guideposts for cities to create equitable transit-oriented developments

BD+C

Image: City of Austin, Texas Guidepost 1: Enable all residents to benefit from safe, sustainable, and accessible transportation. This means making sure ground floor spaces are designed and structured to allow affordable leases. Austin, Texas, has created a 6-point set of guidelines to make transit-oriented developments more equitable.

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Health & The Built Environment: Scales of Impact

Stok

Building Technology Director Brent Trenga from Kingspan discussed the Ireland-based building materials company’s drive to pioneer new healthy, sustainable products. Candace Koo, Affordable Housing Consultant at Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation, discussed the company’s role in integrating sustainability into housing at scale.

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Fall Conference Circuit: 12 Top Takeaways

Stok

Michiel Bakker, Director of Global Workplace Programs at Google, and Lindsay Baker, Head of Sustainability and Wellbeing at WeWork, discussed creating the workplace of the future. Bioneers | San Francisco, CA. #10: VERGE 18 | Oakland, CA. #1: 1: The workplace of the future isn’t a workplace – it’s a community.

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COVID 19 Commercial Building Liability

Green Building Law Update

Moreover, an invitee cannot maintain a negligence suit merely from a showing that an injury was sustained in the defendant’s building. By early March lawsuits had already been filed in courts in San Francisco and Miami against Princess Cruise Lines Ltd.

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GSA, LEED, USGBC, and Politics

Building Information Management

Is there no better way for GSA to meet sustainability requirement than via LEED? The recently released sustainability and energy “scorecard” by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) demonstrates just how successful GSA has been at reducing costs, improving efficiency and eliminating waste. Ackerstein Sustainability LLC.