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Experience vs. Credentials: Does Your Commercial Construction Contractor Make the Grade?

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With back-to-school season here, it’s exciting to think about students heading off to pursue a degree or certificate in a construction field. But the interesting thing about commercial construction is all the different paths people take to end up in this industry.

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Illinois Is Top State For LEED Green Building

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Illinois Is Top State For LEED Green Building originally appeared on Business Facilities (BF) Magazine. Illinois retained its top national position on USGBC ’s annual Top 10 States for LEED list for the third year in a row, with 161 LEED certifications representing 3.43 Illinois Is Top State For LEED Green Building.

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Top 10 States for LEED Green Building and Surprise Top LEED Rating System

Green Building Law Update

Green Building Council released its annual List of the top 10 states for LEED certification in 2014. Illinois retained its top national position for the second year in a row, with 174 LEED certifications representing 3.31 Illinois and Colorado are the only two states to make the list every year since 2010.

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Illinois: Unveiling the Future of Digital Design and Manufacturing

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SOM recently worked with UI Labs, a Chicago-based research and commercialization collaborative, on the programming and concept design for an exciting new facility: the Digital Manufacturing and Design Innovation Institute (DMDII). WHEELING: DYNAMIC COMMERCIAL, INDUSTRIAL BASE KEEPS GROWING. Illinois’ Tenth U.S.

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Saint Paul has an Alternative to LEED

Green Building Law Update

Much has changed, but much has remained the same, in the arena of green building law mandates since March 18,2002, when the city of Normal, Illinois enacted Ordinance 4825, the first ever mandatory green building law, requiring LEED certification in the Central Business District for public or private new construction of over 7,500 square feet.

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Advancing our time-honored traditions through technological innovation

The Korte Company

Picture this: It’s early spring of 1959 in Hillsboro, Illinois. The embrace of Building Information Modeling (BIM) and LEED certification? Winter’s gone, and Ralph Korte’s hard at work on the roof trusses of a future milking parlor. And he’s finding ways to build them better through the company bearing his last name.

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Greenbuild 2022: A Quick Guide

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This presentation will show how the team leveraged Artificial Intelligence (AI) to identify low-carbon concrete mixes which they refined via lab and field tests and ultimately used at scale in a data center application in DeKalb, Illinois.