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High-Performance Custom Homes: Systemic Sustainability in Cape Cod

Pro Builder

Site: 1 acre . Although Baczek works as a sole proprietor at his eponymous firm in the Boston metro area, he has collaborated with Jim Wolffer at Shoreline Builders—as he did on this house—for nearly three decades. Size: 3,000 square feet . Photos: David Fell.

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Lessons learned from 70 years of building cities

BD+C

The urban fabric pulls the corners of the building outward, orienting views as the building also gestures to surrounding locations: the harbor, the developing Seaport and Congress Street, as well as the Boston Convention Center. In Beijing, our plan for the 798 Arts District reimagines a postindustrial site for contemporary life.

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In Flagstaff: Marketing at the edge of the universe(s)

Construction Marketing Ideas

Recently it has been refurbished as a tourist visiting site. The real cutting edge stuff generally happens at other locations, such as one operated in co-ordination with the US Navy — that are operated off-site and cannot be accessed even by the interpretative staff at the visitors’ centre.).

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Top 10 Construction Companies in the U.S.

Autodesk Construction Cloud

The Rhode Island-based firm constructed a state-of-the-art engineering lab and academic facility for students at the Wentworth Institute of Technology (WIT) in downtown Boston, Massachusetts. Breaking out the challenge, PCL’s estimators and managers were adept at reviewing 2D drawings and managing the preconstruction process.

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Social media, construction marketing and the not-so-level playing field

Construction Marketing Ideas

The SMB concept, which originated in Boston, has attracted hundreds to regular meetings in Ottawa with live speakers and an hour or so of traditional muffins-and-coffee style networking (the sort of stuff that makes me cringe and become a primary client for Tim Klabunde’s Network Like an Introvert book , available on Amazon.com.).

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Ignoring water issues can harm the economy - Contractor Magazine

Contractor Magazine

Researchers, however, wanted to see how well they worked in real life, so they picked out 10 restaurants, plus the dining halls at Boston College and Harvard. The device creates no external heat or electromagnetic flux outside of the fuser and it draws about 100W. Site Features. Site Archive. View Mobile Site.

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Open Borders

Business Facilities

According to the Boston Consulting Group, foreign workers in the U.S. But the project’s price tag—an estimated $30 billion—has kept it on the drawing board. Read Open Borders on Business Facilities - Economic Development, Site Selection & Workforce Solutions. Thank you for voting. You have already voted on this poll!

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