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Structural engineering solutions for office-to-residential conversion

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Structural engineering solutions for office-to-residential conversion 0 qpurcell Thu, 09/28/2023 - 10:37 Office Buildings IMEG's Edwin Dean, Joe Gulden, and Doug Sweeney, share seven key focuses for structural engineers when planning office-to-residential conversions. faces a housing deficit of 3.8 million units.

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How to design for adaptive reuse: Don’t reinvent the wheel

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How to design for adaptive reuse: Don’t reinvent the wheel 0 qpurcell Thu, 08/17/2023 - 09:52 Adaptive Reuse Gresham Smith demonstrates the opportunities of adaptive reuse, specifically reusing empty big-box retail and malls, many of which sit unused or underutilized across the country. Take a multidiscipline approach.

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Austrian university develops 'inflatable' concrete dome method

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“[We have] developed a method that can cut costs to around 50 percent,” says Benjamin Kromoser, an instructor at the university’s Institute of Structural Engineering. Body Image: read more.

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Austrian university develops “inflatable” concrete dome method

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“[We have] developed a method that can cut costs to around 50 percent,” says Benjamin Kromoser, an instructor at the university’s Institute of Structural Engineering. Body Image: Blog Author: BD+C Staff.

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The high cost of low maintenance

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This article will identify the primary causes of engineering failures, define proactive versus reactive maintenance, recognize the reasons for deferred maintenance, and identify the financial and safety risks related to deferred maintenance. The longer maintenance is deferred, the more the structure deteriorates.

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Milhaus, Gershman Partners, and Citimark close on $70 million multifamily development in Indy

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Multifamily Housing Apartments Award-winning developers Milhaus , Gershman Partners , and Citimark Inc. have closed on a prime retail and mixed-use multifamily housing development in the heart of Indianapolis’s most popular submarket, Broad Ripple Village.

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How We Built The New American Home 2021

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But while restaurants, retailers, and sports venues were shut down to help curb the spread of a viral pandemic, residential building carried on. We started with renderings to show the basic vision of what we wanted to achieve and met with our engineer, framer, electrician, and wood floor installers to get their input and formulate a plan.

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