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Guide to Top 2022-23 Construction Conferences & Events

Autodesk Construction Cloud

This event is being hosted by the Vecellio Construction Engineering and Management Program (VCEMP) at Virginia Tech and taking place at the Hyatt Regency Crystal City at Reagan National Airport. . ABC Convention (San Antonio, TX). The Associated Builders and Contractors (ABC) next convention is coming to San Antonio, TX.

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Joint public-private sector effort needed to mitigate the construction sector’s embodied carbon problem

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Of those total emissions, building operations are responsible for 27% of annual global emissions, while embodied carbon emissions—the greenhouse gas emissions generated from the manufacturing, transportation, installation, maintenance, and disposal of building materials—are responsible for 15% of annual GHG emissions.

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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]

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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]

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10 biggest upcoming construction projects in U.S. started in November 2014

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Race to a Smart Future

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metro to fully integrate innovative technologies—self-driving cars, connected vehicles and smart sensors, among other advances—into its transportation network. The city has a broad plan for “adaptive transportation systems” that would remain useful even as technology evolves in coming years. Allen’s Vulcan Inc.

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Prologis, a real estate investment trust company based in San Francisco, says the three-floor, 590,000-square-foot industrial fulfillment and distribution facility it’s building in Seattle is the first of its kind in the U.S. The investment firm says it’s planning a second multi-story warehouse in San Francisco.