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Deconstruction and Reuse: The Future of our Built Environment.

Construction Marketing

I do believe that we can reimagine our world and our built environment in such a way that we can pull ourselves out of this trend and this tremendously expensive habitual behavior. So this years Decon 18 conference is about Reimaging the future of our building industry. The answers of course are as complex as the questions however.

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SME house builders demand action from “anti-building” Tories

Construction Enquirer

The letter signed by 200 firms highlights the “existential threat to the survival of businesses posed by the increasingly anti-development policy environment.” Sadly, the current operating environment and the Government’s anti-building stance makes it virtually impossible for today’s generation of SMEs to succeed.

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Health & The Built Environment: Scales of Impact

Stok

“We are separated by geography, income, time, size… ultimately, we are fundamentally distanced from the result of our decisions. So stok teamed up with ILFI and other changemakers to take a fresh look at one of the biggest movements in the industry: health and the built environment.

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High-performance air- and water-resistive barriers deliver improved sustainability

Construction Specifier

These challenges play out across the construction industry. By minimizing the uncontrolled exchange of indoor and outdoor air, the need for conditioning the incoming air is reduced, leading to energy savings. Holistic understanding of environmental impacts is not easy to develop. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE).

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The impacts of affordability, remote work, and personal safety on urban life

BD+C

Income level creates the most variation in agreement for this statement. People who identified as belonging to the highest income class in their city were 1.5x more likely to feel that their city provides a great experience than people who feel they belong in the lowest income group.

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GBCI announces arc, a new technology organization to measure and compare green building performance

BD+C

Officially launching later in 2016, arc will further the performance of the green building industry and the built environment as a whole. . Scot Horst, USGBC’s Chief Product Officer, has been named arc’s incoming CEO. (GBCI) announced a new technology organization called arc. .

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A Giant That Is (Still) Creeping Through the Construction Industry: Digitization

Building Radar

However, digitalisation in the construction industry is developing more slowly than in other industries. In our article, we have already described 20 construction industry trends to watch in 2020.Today Artificial Intelligence In general, artificial intelligence (AI) will positively change all areas of the construction industry.