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Demand for Aging-in-Place Design Poised to Grow

Pro Builder

Demand for Aging-in-Place Design Poised to Grow. The growing population of older adults comes with an increased importance on universal and aging-in-place home design principles. The vast majority of people want to stay in their homes as they age, and most homes in this country aren’t designed to allow that to happen.”.

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Let there be light: Union Station Great Hall

BD+C

Originally completed in 1925, Chicago’s Union Station was designated a landmark in 2002 and listed by AIA Illinois as one of the 200 Illinois Great Places.

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SOM reimagines former Cook County Hospital into mixed-use destination

BD+C

The 342,000-sf Cook County Hospital building, completed in 1914, sat vacant since 2002 and had fallen into a severe state of disrepair.

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Lean methodology is ignored by the construction sector

Job Order Contracting

Furthermore, of this 5%, most of the applications have not leveraged, or even been designed to leverage the full valued of Lean. Design-Build Contracting Claims: Cumulative Supplement. Design and Construction: Building in Value. Predicting performance of design-build and design-bid-build projects. Bramble, B.

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Modular Can Be High End

Pro Builder

Joseph Tanney, a founder of Resolution 4 Architecture in New York City, who has been designing modular homes since 2002, said today’s modular homes can be very high end. A seven-bedroom, nine-bathroom modular home that Mr. Tanney designed in Bridgehampton, N.Y., Modular Can Be High End. Fri, 09/24/2021 - 10:51.

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Tenant’s New Defense to Hazardous Substance Liability

Green Building Law Update

In 2002, as part of the Small Business Liability Relief and Brownfields Revitalization Act, the BFPP definition was amended to include the parenthetical phrase “(or a tenant of a person)” in the description of who can claim the BFPP defense, but there was no other direction on the treatment of tenants.

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Lumber Standard Committee approves new Southern Pine design value changes

BD+C

The American Lumber Standard Committee Board of Review has approved the Southern Pine Inspection Bureau’s design value changes for all sizes and grades of visually graded Southern Pine dimension lumber. SPIB will publish the new design values in its Supplement 13 to the Standard Grading Rules for Southern Pine Lumber, 2002 Edition.

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