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New York City Studies Feasibility of $1B Passenger Rail Line

ENR Construction

Design firms AECOM and WSP awarded $1.3 million contract to study 16-mile Brooklyn to Queens line.

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

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5 ways mass timber will reshape the design of life sciences facilities Here are five reasons why it has become increasingly evident that mass timber is ready to shape the future of laboratory spaces. Here are five reasons why. The market-ready prototyp[es consider an urban sigte in one of Boston's leading life sciences clusters.

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Tidal Wave of the Future

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In future years, New York could see a significant increase in hydrokinetic power from coastline installations if wave conversion or tidal in-stream power technologies prove technically and economically feasible. There’s also a pilot tidal power project off the coast of Maine. The project, led by Verdant Power, Inc.,

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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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What’s Driving the Demand for Single-Family Rental Homes?

Pro Builder

Design Ideas for Single-Family Built-to-Rent Homes. The for-sale home marketplace hits the news daily, with regular reports of skyrocketing prices, bidding wars, and supply issues. 2, respectively, for population growth during 2021, accounting for 60% of the growth across the top 25 growth cities last year. .

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Germ of an Idea

Buisness Facilities Contributed Content

Department of Agriculture designated it in 1954 as the new home of something called the Animal Disease Center. It’s been estimated that a couple of grams of refined anthrax tossed onto the rails can contaminate the entire New York City subway system, potentially killing thousands of people who come into contact with it.

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When office-to-residential conversion works

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When office-to-residential conversion works 0 qpurcell Wed, 06/28/2023 - 13:29 Office Buildings The cost and design challenges involved with office-to-residential conversions can be daunting; designers need to devise creative uses to fully utilize the space. The Perkins Eastman-designed conversion in Alexandria, Va.,