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Frank Lloyd Wright’s Taliesin school of architecture faces accreditation loss

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Eighty-two years after its founding by its storied namesake, the Frank Lloyd Wright School of Architecture is currently at risk of losing its accreditation. read more.

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Sales commission or salary: The conudrum

Construction Marketing Ideas

in some fields, such as real estate sales, there seems to be only one answer: pure commission. However, this option isn’t universal within the architectural, engineering and construction community. The contractor says: Commission salespeople do not know how to treat people. So who is right?

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Architectural, engineering and construction sales and marketing: What are the limits?

Construction Marketing Ideas

Most leaders at architectural, engineering and construction businesses don’t like to think at all about sales, and consider marketing to be an obscure, often expensive, and frustratingly unbillable add-on. They associate marketing with expensive branding efforts, overpriced and […].

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Suffolk Construction establishes Suffolk Sustainability Group

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In construction, he actively engages with projects teams to minimize embodied carbon through strategic material procurement, streamline commissioning efforts, and facilitates comprehensive sustainability training with trade partners and client operations teams. Mchael Swenson, Director of Sustainability at Suffolk Design.

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St. Augustine Terrace brings affordable housing to the Bronx

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A new 13-story building, commissioned by The Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of New York and designed by Magnusson Architecture + Planning, will provide 112 units of affordable housing for low-income families in the Bronx.

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Los Angeles: Home of the Single-Family Streetscape

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is a mecca of owner-occupied single-family homes, some dating back to the gilded architecture of Old Hollywood. Some of the remaining architectural wonders of the early 20th century are alive and well, occupied by unsuspecting homeowners high in the Hollywood Hills or tucked quietly in historic Pasadena.

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Gotcha: FTC Enforcement of "VOC Free" Claims for Paint

Green Building Law Update

The Federal Trade Commission’s Green Guides set forth the Commission’s current views on environmental marketing to help business avoid making unfair or deceptive claims. Earlier this year, the Commission issued orders resolving allegations that The Sherwin-Williams Company and PPG Architectural Finishes, Inc.

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