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Are There Lessons From the Great Recession for the COVID-19 Pandemic?

Pro Builder

Jeff Benach, co-principal at Lexington Homes, in Chicago, says his team regularly examines financial scenarios to forecast what the numbers could look like if sales declined by 10%, 20%, and so on. There have been four “official” recessions since 1980, and Jeff Benach, co-principal at Lexington Homes , in Chicago, has endured them all.

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Feature Story: 2016 Economic Development Awards

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Here are just a few examples that illustrate how 21st-century renewable energy initiatives are transforming what was a 20th-century steel hub: on the banks of the Buffalo River, one of the largest solar panel factories in the U.S. The debt-free, state-of-the-art AnC Bio facility will take about 18 months to build.

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The Future of the Built Environment in 2019

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2018 was a big year for embodied carbon , culminating in the launch of materialsCAN (Carbon Action Network) – a global group of manufacturers and building professionals committed to prioritizing embodied carbon in building materials – at Greenbuild in Chicago. Embodied Carbon and the Trend Toward Mass Timber.