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Boston Mayor Unveils $500M Plan for Affordable Housing

ENR Construction

Boston Mayor Marty Walsh (D) announced on Jan. 7 an unprecedented $500-million investment over five years for affordable housing, including a new business and foundation investment fund for creation of low- and moderate-income housing.

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Project Team Installs 'Sky Mat' in Boston Tower

ENR Construction

Winthrop Center recently became the first tower in the city to insert an unusual concrete foundation known as a “sky mat.”

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5 ways mass timber will reshape the design of life sciences facilities

BD+C

Columns, spaced 33 feet apart, are notched at the top to receive the girders, thereby transferring the floor loading to the foundation. The market-ready prototyp[es consider an urban sigte in one of Boston's leading life sciences clusters. The resulting spaces can accommodate a diverse group of tenants.

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Novel Material for Cooling Structures

Natural Building

Yi Zheng, an associate professor of mechanical and industrial engineering at Northeastern University in Boston, has created a sustainable material that can be used to make buildings or other objects keep cool without relying on conventional cooling systems. Zheng envisions this “cooling paper” covering the roofs of buildings.

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Boston’s Plan to “Be Blue”

PSMJ Resources

Photo courtesy of Inhabitat.com Last year at a forum hosted by the Beverly Willis Architecture Foundation, futurist Edie Weiner predicted that green-to-blue spaces (spaces that give back more than they take) would gain traction in the years ahead. Here in Boston, home of PSMJ’s headquarters, it’s looks as though she’s right.

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How Industrialized Construction Is Changing the Way We Build   

Autodesk Construction Cloud

IC also enables teams to become more innovative, while providing consistency to their foundational work. . And in Boston,? Companies building data centers, big pharma, residential, hospitality, hospitals, and infrastructure, are using IC to accelerate building projects and roadways with shorter schedules and improved quality.

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City Momentum Index Identifies The World’s 20 Most Dynamic Cities

Buisness Facilities Contributed Content

The true foundation of highly dynamic cities emerges from such factors as speed of innovation and creation of cutting-edge businesses along with new building construction, property price movement and investment in real estate from cross-border investors and corporations. Hong Kong. Los Angeles.