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Ashe seals £24m Milton Keynes school deal

Construction Enquirer

Ashe Construction has been awarded a £24m design and build contract to for a new primary school and community health hub for Milton Keynes Council. Ashe has been employed to manage the complete design and build contract and has developed the scheme from feasibility over a 15-month period.

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ANSI B11 and risk assessment: The best kept secret in safety

FDR Safety

At the recent ASSE Professional Development Conference, there was considerable focus on risk assessment, voluntary standards and prevention through design. Risk assessment, or RA for short, will guide you in the application of feasible risk reduction controls. Risk assessment is one of the most powerful safety tools we have.

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Suffolk Construction establishes Suffolk Sustainability Group

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Suffolk Construction establishes Suffolk Sustainability Group Design veterans Steven Burke and Michael Swenson will lead the new sustainability initiative for Suffolk. Contractors Sustainability Sustainable Design and Construction Suffolk Construction, headquartered in Boston, has established the Suffolk Sustainability Group.

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Creating a sense of place with multipurpose K-12 school buildings

BD+C

James Krueger, AIA, NCARB, Design Principal Education Facilities K-12 Schools School Construction Designers Designers / Specifiers / Landscape Architects Facility Managers Architects Building Owners PreK–12 education has become far more sophisticated over the years, and school design must continually evolve to keep up with current and future needs.

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Construction project management 101 – Checklist

Lets Build

The business models, though, are of two forms — it’s either design, bid, build where the project owner chooses a contractor after the design phase or design-build where both design and construction phases are done by one contractor. Stakeholders then perform feasibility testing accordingly. The process. Initiation.

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3 ways computational tools empower better decision-making

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Megha Sinha, Melissa Alexander, Nate Holland Higher Education Laboratories Designers Designers / Specifiers / Landscape Architects BIM and Information Technology Computational tools—which harness the power of computation to streamline decision making—were once considered “nice to have.” So why should clients care?

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Passive House is “In” in 2017

Green Building Law Update

Those design principles were systematized by Bo Adamson and Wolfgang Feist, who founded the Passive House Institute (Passivhaus Institut) in 1996 in Darmstadt, Germany. Governments in North America are beginning to drive Passive House.

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