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Commercial Construction Industry Trends: Reflecting on the Highs and Lows of 2018

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So before we officially ring in 2019, here is our rundown of Englewood Construction’s commercial construction trends “highs” and “lows” from 2018: High: A Sizable Senior Living Pipeline. Moving into 2019, we will continue to work with our subcontractors on their numbers, value-engineer projects and do all we can to make deals work.

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Rapidly Rising Student Debt Keeps Millions from Homeownership

Pro Builder

A 2019 survey by Zillow found 39% of potential buyers said student debt delayed their homebuying plans. At some point, there is no more wiggle room in a household’s budget, and finances are pushed up against the hard constraint of debt-to-income ratios. . Over the course of 13 years, college tuition increased 81.9%. Read More. .

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Your ENERGY STAR Score is About to Fall Precipitously

Green Building Law Update

In addition to updates to 1 to 100 ENERGY STAR score models, there will be two other changes included in the August 2018 metric updates: Beginning after August 26, there will be a new option to use estimated energy use for data centers.

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Code Compliance & Beyond: Upping Baseline Building Energy Performance

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Research by the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) estimates that due to continuously improving building energy codes, homes and businesses in the U.S. On the cusp of adoption on January 1, 2020, the 2019 version of Title-24 gives us a sneak peek at the road map for building energy codes in the coming years.

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Floor moisture barrier

GCP Applied Technologies

Wed, 01/09/2019 - 13:01. January 09, 2019. Contractors are under pressure to complete projects on ever-shorter schedules with ever-tighter budgets. It is estimated that moisture-related flooring problems cause more than $1 billion annually in the U.S. KOVARA-Blog-#Pillar 2019. Floor moisture barrier. return to top.

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Why Projects Fail

Job Order Contracting

85%+of all projects are over budget (just 31% of all projects came within 10% of the budget in the past 3 years – KPMG) 52% of rework is caused by poor project data and miscommunication (2018 Industry Report – Construction Disconnected, FMI). 40-50% work is either rework or not “value-added work.” ORGANIZATIONAL MATURITY.

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Protection with Floor Moisture Barriers

GCP Applied Technologies

Wed, 01/09/2019 - 13:01. January 09, 2019. Contractors are under pressure to complete projects on ever-shorter schedules with ever-tighter budgets. It is estimated that moisture-related flooring problems cause more than $1 billion annually in the U.S. KOVARA-Blog-#Pillar 2019. Phillip.fry@gc…. Hospitality projects.