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Resilience is the Future of Real Estate and USGBC Spells it RELi

Green Building Law Update

offers the most comprehensive certification available anywhere for environmentally and socially resilient design. In 2018, the LEED Steering Committee also synthesized the LEED Resilient Design pilot credits with RELi’s Hazard Mitigation and Adaptation credits. It’s a shift from wish-based optimism to reality-based hope.

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Design-Build sets the standard for modern military lodging

The Korte Company

That’s the case with the new Navy Gateway Inns & Suites (NGIS) completed in late 2018 at Naval Station Newport in Rhode Island. This 200-room Design-Build project was the first of its kind conforming to new Department of Defense criteria. Department of Defense’s new Unified Facilities Criteria. In service of service.

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Resilient Flooring: The sustainable specification

Construction Specifier

Is the goal to achieve certification from a green building rating system? • FloorScore certification for indoor environmental quality. Certification to NSF/ANSI 332 offers specifiers of resilient flooring the highest level of confidence in sustainability and transparency.

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Business Facilities’ 15th Annual Rankings: State Rankings Report

Business Facilities

4 in Best Business Climate, Texas—all have been perennial contenders for BF’s top honor, the State of the Year Award: Texas and Tennessee each have won the award three times since it was created in 2007; Virginia was the 2018 SOTY; Alabama won BF’s top award in 2017. “An Louisiana, no. million over the next five years. territories.

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Demystifying fire-retardant treated wood specifications

Construction Specifier

Chapter 23 of the 2018 International Building Code and NFPA 703, Standard for Fire-Retardant-Treated Wood and Fire- Retardant Coatings for Building Materials contain detailed lists of requirements for FRTW that may not be clearly or easily understood by those who are unfamiliar with FRTW. IBC 2018 Ed. NFPA 5000 2018 Ed.

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6 showcase hotel construction projects

The Korte Company

Our crews returned from mandatory evacuation to a damage-free job site. But the grand design came with some roadblocks, so we sat down with the Army to develop a design that would suit the site, meet the base’s lodging needs and save time and money. Lee Army Lodge – Ft. Lee, Virginia. Gateway Inn & Suites – Newport, Rhode Island.

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Mississippi: A Winning Recipe

Business Facilities

Toyota Mississippi said that construction of the 15,000-square-foot visitor and interactive training center would begin in late 2018 with a targeted completion date in mid-2019. The new manufacturing operations will begin in 2018. The company is on track to produce its 1 millionth vehicle in late 2017.