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

BD+C

Best Practices: Work with What You Have Any architect can look at a dilapidated site and suggest tearing it down and starting from scratch. The inventory requirements of big-box retail and malls make these facilities ideal structures for adaptive reuse. Don’t overlook what you have. Updating lighting supports both brand and security.

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15 Tennessee Communities To Receive Site Development Grants

Buisness Facilities Contributed Content

Site Development Grants totaling $5.7 million will be awarded to 15 Tennessee communities to prepare economic development sites for market. The Site Development Grant program is part of the state’s larger Rural Economic Development Fund. “We Department of Agriculture selected the 15 sites from a pool of 24 applications.

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Sustainable Building by the Numbers

Pro Builder

Surprisingly, we discovered that by making some adjustments to not only the materials used, but how we purchase and inventory them, our bottom line was positively impacted, too. What will it cost to inventory and store bulk buys? . Lighter building materials reduce the number of people needed to transport and install items on a site.

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GHG, SHG, SEC Regulations – Facilities Regs and Reporting Changes Coming Soon

Job Order Contracting

Additionally, GHGRP (codified at 40 CFR Part 98) requires reporting of greenhouse gas (GHG) data and other relevant information from large GHG emission sources, fuel and industrial gas suppliers, and CO2 injection sites in the United States. How to reduce the carbon footprint of a building? Design for long life and adaptability. Conclusion.

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With Inflation, How Can We Help Construction Costs Stay Down?

Fieldwire

With no one to supervise the site, BIM’s clash detection feature can help you identify injury risks before disaster strikes, saving you from project delays and costly medical bills. IoT applications can also help you track new expenses on the construction site. BIM can even be a personal safety monitor for independent subcontractors.

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Talent and Tech: The Keys to Unlocking Prefabrication Success 

Autodesk Construction Cloud

While it's true that prefab enables you to build a structure in a more controlled environment (i.e., And when it comes to on-site assembly, project teams must see to it that all components arrive on schedule and are put together flawlessly. SiteSense Teams can track materials, inventory, tools, assets, and equipment with SiteSense.

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How Covid-19 Will Impact the Global Construction Industry?

Constructonomics

Let’s find out how and what changes should we expect for 2021: Safer Construction Sites. contractors responded to it by implementing new safety-related policies like temperature checks, staggered shifts, disinfection of tools, job sites, and machinery. In 2019, about 20% of private worker fatalities were in construction. A lot of U.S.