BD+C

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Marc Asnis, AICP MFPRO+ Blog University Buildings Healthcare Facilities Mixed-Use Apartments Retail Centers Shopping Centers Designers Architects Adaptive Reuse Exterior Restoration Interior Architecture Sustainability Sustainable Development The death of the 20th century shopping mall is evident all across the country.

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Austin Sustainability San Francisco Site 105

Pro Builder

AUGUST 20, 2020

Would you sign a 99 year lease to rent out your backyard? With our company, we’re always looking at what the alternative models are that we can utilize to help build more affordable, accessible, sustainable housing,” says Declan Keefe, cofounder of CoEverything, which focuses on how to bring better practices to architecture and development.

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San Francisco California Leases Housing 52

BD+C

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Image: City of Austin, Texas Guidepost 1: Enable all residents to benefit from safe, sustainable, and accessible transportation. This means making sure ground floor spaces are designed and structured to allow affordable leases. Ultimately, those with the greatest need for transit should be able to locate close to transit.

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Austin Equity Texas Transportation 95

Stok

JUNE 27, 2018

Building Technology Director Brent Trenga from Kingspan discussed the Ireland-based building materials company’s drive to pioneer new healthy, sustainable products. Candace Koo, Affordable Housing Consultant at Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation, discussed the company’s role in integrating sustainability into housing at scale.

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Environment San Francisco Sustainability Housing 40

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. 4: Smart design satisfies everyone. 6: Robots are critical to human-centric design. 7: High performance design is optimized when value-aligned.

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Conference San Francisco CA Office 56

Green Building Law Update

NOVEMBER 15, 2020

courts have never addressed a pandemic like SARS-CoV-2 (the current designation for what had been the Novel Coronavirus 2019). Moreover, an invitee cannot maintain a negligence suit merely from a showing that an injury was sustained in the defendant’s building. There was not a mature plaintiff’s bar during the 1918 Spanish flu.

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Liability Legal Claims Insurance 293

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. 2M Design Consultants, Inc.

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Consulting Green Architecture Sustainability 55