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Building Trends: An Old Material Becomes New Again

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Technology companies are creating tools like bricklaying robots and printing houses with 3D printers. However, this concept has gained some traction recently with architects around the world in cities like Chicago, London, Minneapolis and Vancouver designing wooden high-rises. Interested in green construction?

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Natural Gas: To Ban or Not To Ban?

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Arizona, Texas, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Kansas, and Louisiana have all enacted or proposed legislation to block such bans after San Francisco, Seattle, Denver, and New York have all taken action toward phasing out natural gas. Green Design. Housing Markets. billion and $5.9 Read More. . Sustainability. Energy Efficiency.

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State of the Construction Industry: April Roundup

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New construction technologies to attract younger workers, a push toward green building and the good and bad news in safety — these highlight some of the top stories in April. Green rooftops on skyscrapers, like this one in downtown Chicago, may soon be required in New York City.

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Cracking the code of affordable housing

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Cracking the code of affordable housing 0 qpurcell Fri, 10/20/2023 - 09:03 Affordable Housing Perkins Eastman's affordable housing projects show how designers can help to advance the conversation of affordable housing. million homes that are accessible to low-income renters. It’s so destabilizing,” she adds.

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Structural engineering solutions for office-to-residential conversion

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Edwin Dean, Joe Gulden, and Doug Sweeney MFPRO+ Blog High-rise Construction Apartments Office Buildings Engineers Codes Regulations Adaptive Reuse Reconstruction & Renovation Seismic Design Office-to-residential conversion seems like a simple solution to a problem. faces a housing deficit of 3.8 Seattle, Wash., million units.

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PNC Tops Off Its New Global Headquarters In Pittsburgh

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The 33-story tower is located on the Southeast corner of Fifth Avenue and Wood Street and will house approximately 2,200 employees upon its opening in the fall of 2015. a Pittsburgh-based general contractor; Gensler, a global design firm; Buro Happold, a U.K.-based The project team includes PJ Dick, Inc.,

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Designing a new frontier in Seattle’s urban core

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Designing a new frontier in Seattle’s urban core 0 qpurcell Fri, 02/23/2024 - 08:50 High-rise Construction Graphite Design Group shares the design for Frontier, a 540,000-sf tower in a five-block master plan for Seattle-based tech leader Amazon.

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