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Hord Coplan Macht names Ilijana Soldan as Sustainability Manager

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Hord Coplan Macht names Ilijana Soldan as Sustainability Manager Hord Coplan Macht, Baltimore, MD., has promoted Ilijana Soldan, AIA, LEED AP, EcoDistricts, NCARB, to Sustainability Manager. rcassidy Tue, 05/23/2023 - 13:29 HORD COPLAN MACHT Research-based designer will lead Sustainability Action Team and the firm's green initiatives.

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Top 25 Finalists for Ivory Innovations' Housing Affordability Prize

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Top 25 Finalists for Ivory Innovations' Housing Affordability Prize esorum Thu, 03/16/2023 - 09:09 This year’s finalists in the Construction & Design category include solutions to the labor shortage as well as environmentally friendly building solutions focused on decreasing construction time.

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Housing, Industrialized: Your Road Map to Off-Site Construction

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Housing, Industrialized: Your Road Map to Off-Site Construction. Sidebar: The Synergy of Industrialized Construction and Built-for-Rent Housing. delivers four houses per week, about half the time it would take to frame the same number of houses on-site, Logue says. Mon, 10/04/2021 - 14:02. Analyze comparative costs.

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Linda Purdy on TRI Pointe's Goals and Challenges in the Colorado Market

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Linda Purdy on TRI Pointe's Goals and Challenges in the Colorado Market. TRI Pointe's Linda Purdy shares her perspective on acquiring land, building homes at attainable prices, and other challenges for growing the home builder's Colorado division. TRI Pointe Homes, Colorado. Wed, 03/10/2021 - 06:00. Mike Beirne, Senior Editor.

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Despite a Worsening Water Shortage, Developers Are Mapping Out New Projects in Phoenix Desert

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Developers planning to build new housing in the desert west of Phoenix are running out of groundwater needed to move projects forward in the midst of a megadrought affecting dry regions across the Western U.S. Sustainability. Wed, 01/18/2023 - 11:09. Environmental. Planning + Development. New-Construction Projects. Environmental.

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Getting Older Homes Up to Snuff for Energy Efficiency

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million new homes being added to the nation’s housing stock every year. Technology, process, and consumer understanding are all needed to bring older, existing housing stock up to par and reduce its environmental impact. What are broadly useful solutions that can decarbonize our existing housing stock? and approximately 1.6

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Indoor Marijuana Growing Accounts for Over 1% of all Electric Consumption in the U.S.

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A sharp increase in electrical use in a house has been used by police as probable cause to issue a search warrant for illegal marijuana cultivation. Print media accounts in Colorado have estimated that electricity costs are now 50% of the wholesale cost of the emergent industry of indoor cannabis production.