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Make It Resilient 2024 Student Contest Encourages New Ways to Build for Extreme Environments

Autodesk Construction Cloud

With its latest annual Make It Real program, Autodesk is challenging high school students to imagine how to design and build a habitat for an extreme environment. For the Make It Resilient 2024 contest , any extreme environment such as a desert, rainforest, deep ocean site, areas prone to flooding, or even another planet can be chosen.

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UMass Medical School’s new Education and Research Building

BD+C

The new Education and Research Building, a nine-story biomedical research building at the University of Massachusetts Medical School, will support the development of therapeutics for some of the world’s most challenging diseases in a high-performance, sustainable environment.

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Designing better built environments for a neurodiverse world

BD+C

Designing better built environments for a neurodiverse world 0 qpurcell Wed, 01/03/2024 - 09:30 Designers For most of human history, design has mostly considered “typical users” who are fully able-bodied without clinical or emotional disabilities. Stay tuned for our first journey and bookmark this page for future perspectives.

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Educators Place the Spotlight on Modular Construction

GCP Applied Technologies

The educators at Weitz Construction Academy at Seminole Ridge High School in Loxahatchee, Florida have been practicing modular construction long before it became popular. For over eight years, the leading global provider of building materials has partnered with the Academy to provide needed products and educate their students.

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Building healthcare in a coastal environment

Construction Specifier

Understanding the fundamental challenges of building in a coastal environment can help teams create solutions that maintain the safety of occupants, even amid extreme weather events. The post Building healthcare in a coastal environment appeared first on Construction Specifier. It was constructed through two active hurricane seasons.

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Construction Project Delivery Leadership – Public Sector

Job Order Contracting

Efficient management of the built environment is critical to the environment, economy, and our overall well being. Owner and design-builder planning, procurement, and project delivery teams MUST work together within a common information environment and share clearly defined, mutually beneficial goals.

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Greenbuild – The Target Rich Environment for Green People

Green Building Law Update

Educational activities abound with more than 200 formal sessions. Greenbuild 2018 in Chicago will be “the” target rich environment for green people this year. And if that number does not excite you, Informa tracked and reported the alternative fact that total water footprint of the event was 7,272,158 gallons.

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