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New York: State Of The Future

Business Facilities

The Empire State is preparing for a future of sustainable growth by investing $150 billion in the nation’s largest infrastructure program and creating innovative workforce development programs to prepare skilled workers for high-tech jobs. Read: New York: State Of The Future at BusinessFacilities.com.

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Virtual reality as a tool for sustainable design

Construction Specifier

The capabilities of these TEchnologies offer opportunities for communicating and analyzing the quantitative and material aspects of the design decisions related to sustainability and the built environment in an immersive and understandable way, both for the discipline and the larger public.

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As project delivery models evolve, designers rethink their role

BD+C

Since opening in September 2017, Cornell Tech’s New York campus has gained attention for its inventive, ambitious design.

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Relationship-based FM

Job Order Contracting

Real proper owners and FMers bear the responsibility for professionally managing processes and creating sustainable value via relationship management. Eds), Managing Organizational Ecologies: Space, Management and Organizations, Routledge, New York, NY. Traditional methods are antagonistic in this regard. and Price, I.

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New Straw Bale Home Helps Educate People About Climate Issues

Natural Building

Kathleen Draper, a climate change activist has constructed a 1,500-square-foot, three-bedroom straw bale home that she said will help reduce global warming and keep her comfortable in the harshest New York winter. “I Last year, New York state passed some of the strongest climate change legislation in the country, Draper said.

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3 affordable housing projects that serve as social catalysts

BD+C

Trish Donnally MFPRO+ Blog Higher Education University Buildings Multifamily Housing Affordable Housing Senior Living Design Student Housing Designers Architects Projects Sustainable Development To say the United States is facing an affordable housing crisis is a major understatement.

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A harmful trade-off many U.S. "green" buildings make

BD+C

That is the conclusion that New York-based nonprofit Urban Green Council found in their research on “high cholesterol buildings.”. “Green” construction in the U.S. has mostly been on a fad diet – one where trimming energy consumption is focused on the present but not the long run. Body Image: read more.

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