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The next destination: Passive design airports

BD+C

The next destination: Passive design airports 0 qpurcell Thu, 04/18/2024 - 13:59 Airports Today, we can design airports that are climate resilient, durable, long-lasting, and healthy for occupants—we can design airports using Passive House standards. On the path to passive The airport itself is becoming more sustainable.

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Bid races for new Scape £4bn utilities works deals

Construction Enquirer

The frameworks are designed to cover a host of works covering gas and heat, electricity, water, nuclear, ports, airports, and transport services where many frameworks already exist. Across England, Wales and Northern Ireland qualifying firms will need to have revenue of more than £250m and could share a work pipeline of £3bn.

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Civils firms warn over drop in roads and prelim workloads

Construction Enquirer

These statistics show that while the UK’s infrastructure sector continues to act as the backbone of UK plc in delivering much-needed economic growth, there could be trouble ahead at a time when we need the industry to be firing on all cylinders,” he said. New order levels also follow a similar pattern.

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Viewpoint: Small Projects, Big Results

ENR Construction

Expansion of Manhattan’s Second Ave.

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Job Order Contracting - Untitled Article

Job Order Contracting

America’s Federal Buildings and Physical Infrastructure. I first started working with public facilities and physical infrastructure capital planning and management decades ago. The cost comes in the form of auto repairs, lost productivity, and other factors caused by poor physical infrastructure. Key FY 2017 Statistics.

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State of the Construction Industry: January Roundup

Viewpoint Construction Technology

In construction, however, signs point to at least one more big year, with a rush of infrastructure projects getting rolled out, new technologies showing positive impacts and new ideas to overcome labor shortages. A number of high-profile infrastructure projects could give the construction industry a boost in 2019. The Memphis, Tenn.

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California Construction in the Time of Covid-19

Construction and Infrastructure Law

California’s list of “Essential Critical Infrastructure Workers” [1] exempts all construction work from the purview of California’s statewide “Stay at Home” Order. [2]