Environmental Conference Focuses Building with Sustainability and Resilience
ENR Construction
JULY 12, 2023
Quantifying efforts to build more sustainably and with resilience was explored at the Environment Analyst Global Business Summit in Chicago.
Sustainability Experts Explore Challenges in Client, Community Buy-in
ENR Construction
JULY 12, 2023
Quantifying efforts to build more sustainably and with resilience was the focus of the Environment Analyst Global Business Summit in Chicago.
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Greenbuild – The Target Rich Environment for Green People
Green Building Law Update
SEPTEMBER 16, 2018
This year Greenbuild is in Chicago from November 14 thru 16. But Greenbuild has been a prime source of new clients for my sustainability and green building law practice (. And Greenbuild is sustainable. Greenbuild 2018 in Chicago will be “the” target rich environment for green people this year.
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Greenbuild – The Target Rich Environment for Green People
Green Building Law Update
SEPTEMBER 22, 2019
Greenbuild has become much more than only “green building” as sustainability has become woven into the fabric of business, the conference has evolved into the watering hole for leaders across the entire environmental industrial complex. And Greenbuild is sustainable. more than food prep). I have attended a lot of Greenbuilds.
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1,500th Envision Sustainability Professional Credentialed
Green Building Law Update
JANUARY 28, 2014
The Institute for Sustainable Infrastructure announced that earlier this week it reached the milestone of 1,500 Envision Sustainability Professionals who have been credentialed in the use of the Envision sustainable infrastructure rating system. yes, something like LEED for roads and bridges). There is a charge for that service.
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Sustainable construction products and technologies
GCP Applied Technologies
NOVEMBER 28, 2019
Sustainable construction products and technologies. SUSTAINABLE CONCRETE | SUSTAINABLE CEMENT | SUSTAINABLE BUILDING ENVELOPE. SUSTAINABLE CONCRETE. Concrete admixtures can also optimize the production process for sustainability. Phillip.fry@gc…. Thu, 11/28/2019 - 11:43. GCP Applied Technologies.
Burgers And Brews Set Sustainability Standard In The Heartland
Buisness Facilities Contributed Content
MAY 19, 2014
They’re products, generated by Midwestern companies, that are setting the standard for sustainability in the Heartland. Rochte continued, “from Madison to Milwaukee and Chicago, Midwestern companies may even have a richer history as good corporate citizens than their coastal brethren as it’s been a part of their DNA for so much longer.”.
40 Under 40 Class of 2023 winner Kimberly Dowdell inaugurated as AIA 2024 President
BD+C
JANUARY 25, 2024
She brings to the position an impressive portfolio of leadership roles, dedicated to promoting diversity and sustainability in architecture and urban development, including her tenure as national president of the National Organization of Minority Architects (NOMA) 2019-2020. She was elected to the Cornell University Board of Trustees in 2022.
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“Once-in-a-Generation” Opportunity for Women in Construction: Infrastructure Investment & Jobs Act
Autodesk Construction Cloud
MARCH 8, 2022
economy while making it more sustainable, resilient, and just. The White House states that it will drive the creation of union jobs and help grow the economy in a sustainable way that makes sure all people, including under-represented communities get ahead for decades to come. Lauren Sugerman, Director at Chicago Women in Trades.
Business Report: Chicago Will Host Digital Manufacturing And Design Innovation Institute
Buisness Facilities Contributed Content
JUNE 6, 2014
President Obama has awarded Chicago a $70 million grant from the Department of Defense to build a $320-million Digital Manufacturing and Design Innovation Institute. Mark Kirk, representatives from UI Labs and World Business Chicago, and various industry partners who supported the winning bid were at the White House for the announcement. “We
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Grundfos Establishes N.A. Headquarters In Chicago Area, Plans Additional Jobs
Buisness Facilities Contributed Content
APRIL 17, 2013
According to Hansen, president of Grundfos North America, “The Chicago area is emerging as an important hub for the water industry and is one of the reasons why we’re establishing our North American headquarters here. ” Sustainability is a major priority for Grundfos. The post Grundfos Establishes N.A.
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Greenbuild Clearly Showed the State of LEED is Strong
Green Building Law Update
NOVEMBER 18, 2018
This post is a compilation of the highlights from the just completed Greenbuild International Conference and Expo that took place last week in Chicago. And the After-Party at Chicago’s House of Blues was not only this Greenbuild’s biggest and best after party, but brought back memories of the last time Greenbuild was in Chicago.
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Mean & Green: AIA selects 2014 COTE Top Ten Green Projects
BD+C
APRIL 23, 2014
The American Institute of Architects (AIA) and its Committee on the Environment (COTE) have selected the top ten examples of sustainable architecture and ecological design projects that protect and enhance the environment. The projects will be honored at the AIA 2014 National Convention and Design Exposition in Chicago.
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The American Institute of Architects Select the 2014 COTE Top Ten Green Projects
Construction Superintendent Magazine
APRIL 28, 2014
. -- The American Institute of Architects and its Committee on the Environment have selected the top ten examples of sustainable architecture and ecological design projects that protect and enhance the environment. The projects will be honored at the AIA 2014 National Convention and Design Exposition in Chicago.
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Smart building technology: Talking results at the BUILDINGChicago/ Greening the Heartland show
BD+C
SEPTEMBER 4, 2013
Embedding resilience into building solutions is the theme at the BUILDING Chicago /Greening the Heartland expo and conference , September 9-11 at the Holiday Inn Chicago Mart Plaza. Body Image: read more. Body Image: read more.
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40 The Ultimate Office Design Build Case Study – Us!
HardHatChat
NOVEMBER 18, 2010
So it is with great pride that I announce the completion of our most successful Chicago design build office construction job to date – the new headquarters of Englewood Construction! Our new office is bigger, brighter, more energy efficient and centrally located to our staff and Chicago commercial construction projects.
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Green Home Building and Sustainable Architecture: A Green.
Natural Building
MARCH 8, 2010
Green Home Building and Sustainable Architecture. Sustainable architecture is an exciting and important field, with many people reviving traditional methods of building and others creating innovations to established practices. Kelly has lived in an earthbag/papercrete home that he built and consults about sustainable building design.
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Commercial Construction Trends and Predictions for 2016
HardHatChat
NOVEMBER 24, 2015
We are presently working with several real estate developers to create this type of environment in Chicago and its suburbs, as well as New York and Los Angeles. As more developers and tenants embrace this concept as a successful model for driving traffic, we see this trend sustaining for several years to come.
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Three interconnected solutions for 'saving' urban centers
BD+C
MARCH 16, 2023
By creating choice in environment. The future of urban life—from how cities are planned and built, to how sustainable our metropolitan areas can become—will be affected by how people navigate the places where they live, work, and play. Signal House, Washington, D.C. Photo courtesy Gensler So how can workplace design support this?
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The Reasons BIM is Going Nowhere Fast
Building Information Management
JULY 16, 2012
Sustainability. The Consultative Council provides findings and recommendations to the President and Congress on issues impacting the built environment. Policy makers and members of the building community are encouraged to use a common definition for sustainability. Defining High-Performance and Common Metrics.
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Guide to Top 2022-23 Construction Conferences & Events
Autodesk Construction Cloud
JANUARY 6, 2022
CMAA Focus (Chicago, IL). CMAA Focus 2022 will take place at the Renaissance Chicago in Downtown Chicago. You’ll develop leadership skills, realize career potential, and learn how to expand influence in a very welcoming environment. AIA Conference on Architecture 2022 (Chicago, IL). Get more details.
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52 Governors March Into BIO
Buisness Facilities Contributed Content
APRIL 26, 2013
Since we’ve attended the big BIO show for years, we noticed some subtle differences in this year’s confab, which wrapped up yesterday in Chicago. A big new booth from Russia and a much larger presence from China were notable in Chicago (and we thank our Russian friends for installing the most comfortable couches on the show floor).
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Fall Conference Circuit: 12 Top Takeaways
Stok
OCTOBER 29, 2018
Michiel Bakker, Director of Global Workplace Programs at Google, and Lindsay Baker, Head of Sustainability and Wellbeing at WeWork, discussed creating the workplace of the future. In a controlled environment, she turned on a fan prior to and during the time that a lightbulb (plant food) was on. VERGE 18 | Oakland, CA. #1:
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4 Lessons Construction Companies Can Take From Episodes 3 & 4 of The Last Dance
Construction Junkie
MAY 4, 2020
If you have turned on any sports channel or radio station in the past couple of weeks, you’re probably very familiar with The Last Dance, a documentary about the final season of the Chicago Bulls dynasty in the 1990s. Taking advantage of subcontractors or performing low quality work are not ways to sustain long term success.
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The Reasons BIM is Going Nowhere Fast
Building Information Management
JULY 16, 2012
Sustainability. The Consultative Council provides findings and recommendations to the President and Congress on issues impacting the built environment. Policy makers and members of the building community are encouraged to use a common definition for sustainability. Defining High-Performance and Common Metrics.
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Top 25 Finalists for Ivory Innovations' Housing Affordability Prize
Pro Builder
MARCH 16, 2023
BotBuilt uses the latest technology to implement advanced motion planning with computer vision to build a more sustainable future for construction, forever changing the way the world builds with automation. Diamond Age is currently building entry-level homes for the 9th largest homebuilder in the U.S.
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98 Illinois Is Top State For LEED Green Building
Buisness Facilities Contributed Content
JANUARY 26, 2016
USGBC’s annual Top 10 States for LEED list highlights states throughout the country that are making significant strides in sustainable building design, construction and transformation. Notable projects certified in 2015’s Top 10 States for LEED include: Illinois: Virgin Hotel Chicago; LEED Gold.
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40 Centers of Technology: The Future Is Now
Business Facilities
OCTOBER 11, 2017
CHICAGO AIMS FOR THE TOP OF THE TECH CHART. Chicago is rising up in ranks to become the next big place for technology innovation. Chicago’s Digital Manufacturing and Design Institute (DMDII), has partnered with McKinsey & Co. Chicago’s Digital Manufacturing and Design Institute (DMDII), has partnered with McKinsey & Co.
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Marketing and sales interns: Can they be the solution?
Construction Marketing Ideas
NOVEMBER 30, 2015
There are opportunities, theoretically, for “free” internships, but realistically, in a sales and business development environment, or if you really want results-oriented marketing, you’ll need to pay something. Type the keyword “sales” in Chicago, and you’ll find about 2,700 entries.
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Los Angeles Tops EPA Cities For ENERGY STAR Certified Buildings
Business Facilities
MAY 24, 2022
District of Columbia, Atlanta, San Francisco, and Dallas round out top five, cutting energy costs while increasing efficiency, reducing emissions.
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Icy Hot
Buisness Facilities Contributed Content
JANUARY 28, 2016
The 22-member Council team (with members from all of the nations in the Arctic region) last week unveiled a six-point protocol laying out a set of principles for “sustainable business practices” in the region. The protocol was immediately endorsed by Guggenheim Partners, which helped to draft it.
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Home Builder Success and the Fragility of Good Things
Pro Builder
OCTOBER 3, 2020
The question is: How profitable and sustainable are they, and at what cost? . More than 30 years ago, I learned a principle from two of my greatest mentors, Gary Grant in Minneapolis and Mike Rhoads in Chicago, both VPs of construction who came up through the ranks. Two of those men, however, clearly failed the sustainability test.
Quiet Graycor Speaks Volumes - ENR - McGraw-Hill Construction
ENR Construction
JULY 22, 2012
Environment. Sustainability. Description: Smaller, tougher projects yield big results for a suburban Chicago firm that is branching out in projects and geography. & receive immediate web access $82 a year (includes full web access)-->. Search our site: Infrastructure. Transportation. Power & Industrial. Water & Dams.
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Good Trouble—Necessary for Home Builders, Too
Pro Builder
AUGUST 13, 2020
These events, sometimes drawing tens of thousands, continued until the end of the Vietnam War in 1975, but were memorialized during the August 1968 Democratic convention in Chicago in an epic battle between thousands of protesters and Mayor Richard Daley’s police force. .
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98 Third International Emerging Technology Symposium Presentations.
Contractor Magazine
JUNE 11, 2012
to highlight the challenges facing the manufacturing, engineering and trade industries as they pertain to water and energy conservation, sanitation, renewables and the sustainability of the environment and suggest creative solutions in addressing them. Posted 2 weeks ago in Sustainably Speaking. Blogs and Opinions.
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Pulse: 08/20/2012
ENR Construction
AUGUST 20, 2012
Environment. Sustainability. Illinois Ivanhoe Cambridge and Hines, two major real estate developers, are planning to build River Point , an office building, in downtown Chicagos West Loop neighborhood. acre public park built over rail tracks, which will connect the office tower to the Chicago Riverwalk. Chicago, 60603.
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U.S. Architect To Design Major China Project | ENR: Engineering.
ENR Construction
JULY 20, 2012
Environment. Sustainability. A Chicago-based partner who joined Trahan brought to bear his experience at Skidmore Owings & Merrill on a series of convention-center projects in China. SUBSCRIBE TODAY & receive immediate web access. Search our site: Infrastructure. Transportation. Power & Industrial. Water & Dams.
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John Young to Head Nuclear Lobby Group | ENR: Engineering.
ENR Construction
AUGUST 6, 2012
Environment. Sustainability. Fulgham has joined the firms environmental-services business group as vice president for strategy and sustainable international development. ESD), a Chicago consulting engineer specializing in high- performance building systems. SUBSCRIBE TODAY & receive immediate web access. Transportation.
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Feature Story: Aiming For The Top In Utah
Buisness Facilities Contributed Content
APRIL 15, 2014
“Our diversified economy, an unemployment rate that’s the fourth-lowest in America, the fact that we’ve significantly raised the bar on education, an extremely productive labor force and our business-friendly environment here—this is why so many [global] companies tell us their most-requested worldwide transfer location is Utah.”.
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Food Processing: Generating Growth for Good Eats
Buisness Facilities Contributed Content
MARCH 22, 2016
The metropolis of Los Angeles was the top food processing location in BF ’s 2015 Metro Rankings Report, earning the number one ranking in our metro Food Processing Employment Leaders category, edging Greater Toronto’s burgeoning food processing hub and the traditional food processing crossroads of Chicago as king of the foodies.
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Fall Conferences 2019: Top Takeaways
Stok
OCTOBER 30, 2019
2: The financial value of a healthy and productive built environment is big—and can be quantified. stok teamed up with Delos and ServiceNow to present on nailing the trifecta of next-gen workplaces : technology, sustainability, and user experience. ’ It’s all about understanding your end user. #8: VERGE 19 | Oakland, CA. #11:
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58 BIM, Value Management, Life-cycle Cost Management
Building Information Management
MARCH 19, 2013
BIM is the life-cycle management of the built environment supported by digital technology. The recent increase in demand for sustainable or green buildings is further making the consideration of life cycle cost an issue. This is so that the project that is procured would economically viable through its entire life span.
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53 GSA, LEED, USGBC, and Politics
Building Information Management
JULY 26, 2012
Is there no better way for GSA to meet sustainability requirement than via LEED? The recently released sustainability and energy “scorecard” by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) demonstrates just how successful GSA has been at reducing costs, improving efficiency and eliminating waste. Ackerstein Sustainability LLC.
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Industry Focus: Logistics – Going With The Flow
Buisness Facilities Contributed Content
MAY 12, 2014
Consistent with the past few years, the 24th Annual State of Logistics Report expects slow albeit sustainable growth for the future, with the logistics GDP hovering somewhere between 2.5 Wilson believes that “the economy and logistics sector will slowly regain sustainable momentum, but we will still experience unevenness in growth rates.”.
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