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7 Things to Know About the Sustainable Future of Construction

Autodesk Construction Cloud

The industry creates high levels of physical and digital waste, with 10-15% of materials wasted on every build. From an environmental, social and economic perspective, it’s simply not sustainable. . 7 key takeaways on the future of sustainability in construction. Incremental change won’t cut it: we need a paradigm shift.

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30+ Construction Industry Statistics for EMEA

Autodesk Construction Cloud

Construction industry statistics and data are increasingly important as they help accelerate decision-making on and off the construction site. Seventy-five percent of global construction industry stakeholders agree or strongly agree that the need for real-time decision-making is increasing at the project level. State of the industry.

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How Brexit Will Affect The Construction Industry – Infographics

Lets Build

The UK remains uncertain of the full impact the EU referendum will have and how Brexit will actually affect the construction industry. Many businesses within the construction industry employ EU labour because it is cheaper.

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Overcoming Your Most Common Construction Business Time Waster

Contractor Bookkeeping

Every day you make financial decisions about your company, which affect how successful and sustainable your construction business is. Because of an incorrect decimal place, you may think that you have more money in the bank than you do. Or you may not fully understand how a decision today affects your business tomorrow.

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Intra-Industry Ethics – Can We Pull It Off?

Constructonomics

It’s easy for an outsider to an industry to get on their ethical high-horse and point their finger at others who are walking along the ethical line and perhaps even crossing it. It’s easy for regulators, government, and academia to point their finger at industry and tell them to clean up their act. How can this happen?

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Green Buildings are Subsidizing Conventional Buildings Stymying Climate Progress

Green Building Law Update

This unfair capital subsidy stymies climate progress by siphoning investment from profitable green building including net zero projects, for non sustainable carbon polluting projects. It is dinosaur lending practices that force green buildings to subsidize more risky conventional buildings through artificially low interest rates.

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ESG is Not Just for Public Companies

Green Building Law Update

Many find engaging an attorney with sustainability expertise is a good way to mitigate ESG associated risk. The electric utility monopolies are an industry that doth protest too much, methinks, made wealthy by government regulation, whatever the pendulum swing of that regulation. And there will be other opportunistic industries.

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