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Cut Your Risks: Build – or Rebuild – Sustainably

Construction Law Monitor

Green building practices do more than protect the environment, and smart homeowners have more than energy savings to gain when they strive to comply with LEED requirements. This could mean lower insurance premiums for homeowners who take steps to increase their homes’ sustainability. . Shelter from the storm.

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Burgers And Brews Set Sustainability Standard In The Heartland

Buisness Facilities Contributed Content

They’re products, generated by Midwestern companies, that are setting the standard for sustainability in the Heartland. The white paper shares insights from a series of interviews with 17 leaders in sustainability and corporate social responsibility (CSR). Plains Corporate Social Responsibility Sustainability'

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Virtue signallers beware

Construction Law

The next thing you might be contacting your lawyer about could be your potentially over-inflated sustainability claims. It also says that strict benchmarks and assessment criteria will soon require civil engineers to account for the carbon output and sustainability of the infrastructure they design.

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Autodesk Doubles Down in Helping the Construction Industry Reduce Risk 

Autodesk Construction Cloud

But just as projects need the right teams to do the job, businesses also require the right set of technology partners and integrations to navigate today’s evolving economic environment. . As part of our alliance, Autodesk Build will be included in Shepherd’s Casualty Pro offering, enabling our customers to save on insurance costs. .

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Innovative Roofing Options for A More Sustainable Home

BRIKS Design-Build Group

Sustainability is the trend in home design these days – and it’s not difficult to see why. 8 Sustainable Residential Roofing Options. Just make sure to work with a reputable contractor with valid residential roofing insurance. They’re also recyclable, which is definitely good for the environment. Metal Roof.

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

BD+C

Updating what you have is going to cost less, be more sustainable and come online faster. Developing a second life for these sites represents a viable, cost-effective and logical approach that is critical within our communities and current economic environment. Let the building and the circumstances tell you what needs to happen.

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Ceiling systems for high-performing healthcare facilities

Construction Specifier

Few built environments are as critical to get right as the healthcare facilities designed, built, and renovated today. Choosing materials that foster a clean, comfortable, calm, and aesthetically pleasing environment helps create spaces where people heal and recover faster. Good buildings make people better.