Green Building Law Update

DECEMBER 5, 2021

New York City only began installing water meters in the 1980s. Today the average residential water bill in New York is $994 a year. People living in the slums of Jakarta, Manila and Nairobi pay 10 times more for water than consumers in New York. This looming water curb and excessively severe public policy (.

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BD+C

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Erik Barth Regulations Mass Timber Wood The Changing Built Environment The U.N.’s With an inherently low carbon profile, mass timber can make a big impact in tackling climate action in the built environment. This global migration poses a tremendous opportunity to adapt the urban built environment to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

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BD+C

APRIL 23, 2018

More evidence that companies are embracing open workplace environments comes from Ted Moudis Associates , a New York-based architectural and design firm, whose 2018 Workplace Report finds that offices are being designed to accommodate collaborative “activity-based” projects.

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BD+C

APRIL 23, 2018

More evidence that companies are embracing open workplace environments comes from Ted Moudis Associates , a New York-based architectural and design firm, whose 2018 Workplace Report finds that offices are being designed to accommodate collaborative “activity-based” projects.

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Pro Builder

APRIL 12, 2022

As a result, homeowners are fortifying their homes with resilient and sustainable materials like stronger windows, thicker insulation, and passive solar power, while builders and architects are reevaluating traditional framing and assembly methods for greater durability in at-risk environments.

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Pro Builder

MARCH 28, 2022

New building initiatives taking over the luxury market aim to reduce carbon emissions for the long term. Roughly 39% of the world’s total carbon emissions can be traced back to the built environment and the construction industry, with the average American home emitting 8.3 metric tons of carbon dioxide annually, according to Forbes.

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Constructlaw

AUGUST 3, 2023

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Pro Builder

APRIL 18, 2023

Sustainability and wellness are very closely linked,” commented New York-based interior designer Isfira Jensen in the Interior Design Community Facebook group. Things that are harmful for people are, in most cases, just as harmful for the living organisms in the ecosystem. The reverse happens to also be true,” she noted.

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BD+C

JULY 17, 2018

Interested in sharing your great solution or novel innovation for the AEC market or built environment? AEC innovation conference, May 2019, in New York. The editors of Building Design+Construction invite you to submit a topic for one of the 20 coveted speaker slots at the 2019 Accelerate Live!

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BD+C

JUNE 5, 2017

When multinational energy company Utilicorp United decided to renovate the former New York Life building in Kansas City, Missouri, for its headquarters, the challenge was to create a workplace that embodied a commitment to energy conservation and to the environment.

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ENR Construction

MAY 12, 2020

New York and New England executives say capital projects in transportation will stay strong in post-pandemic environment.

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HardHatChat

OCTOBER 28, 2019

Apple’s first flagship store was in Chicago on Michigan Avenue, where tourists and locals alike quickly became familiar with – and grew to love – the unique environment it offered to interact with the brand’s latest products. Our very first project with the brand was to relocate its original Chicago flagship store to Michigan Avenue in 2008.

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Pro Builder

DECEMBER 6, 2021

A similar demand-supply imbalance in the housing market is also leaving behind record high prices and creating a competitive environment for buyers. . White, the Robert Kavesh Professor of Economics at New York University’s Leonard N. Not surprisingly, inflation is influencing the real estate market in a big way, too.

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ENR Construction

SEPTEMBER 18, 2017

The Newtown Creek Wastewater Treatment Plant in Brooklyn is the largest of 14 wastewater treatment plants owned and operated by the New York City Dept. of Environmental Protection.

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Autodesk Construction Cloud

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

With no shortage of networking and learning opportunities this month, you’ll find construction events happening from California to New York, and every time zone in between. NY Build Expo (New York, NY). In fact, you can find us at several of them, both regional and national. March 2022 Construction Events.

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Construction Equipment

OCTOBER 26, 2016

Members of the Building Trades Employers Association (BTEA), an industry group representing 27 trade union contractor associations in New York City, filed an Article 78 petition Tuesday against the Department of Buildings in New York City and Commissioner Richard D.

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BD+C

JUNE 13, 2017

WeWork, the New York-based urban workspace designer and redeveloper that’s one of the fastest-growing companies in the U.S., His company’s app helps make a jobsite environment more like Facebook or a social feed, where everyone on site is communicating in real time, all the time.

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GCP Applied Technologies

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

GCP will delist from the New York Stock Exchange. GCP is focused on continuous improvement for its customers, end-users and the environment. Saint-Gobain has acquired all of the outstanding shares of GCP Applied Technologies for $32.00 per share, in cash, in a transaction valued at approximately $2.3 About Saint-Gobain .

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Green Building Law Update

JULY 19, 2020

Moreover, in a published report, the Urban Green Council, the New York City chapter of the USGBC indicates “today, almost all large, complex buildings make the same trade off: they add more glass (leading to an energy penalty), and make up for it with superior mechanical systems.”

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BD+C

JUNE 25, 2018

Teachers spend countless hours creating an environment for students to thrive in. The teachers at Grant Avenue School in New York recognized this, but with 464 students and a busy schedule, there was little space for opportunities to learn from each other. As lifelong learners, teachers need spaces to develop too.

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Pro Builder

APRIL 22, 2022

Americans living in at-risk areas prone to extreme weather emergencies can find refuge in cities like Asheville, North Carolina, Buffalo, New York, and Burlington, Vermont, where natural disasters are still mostly few and far between, says CNBC.

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Pro Builder

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

Kobi Karp, a Miami architect, offers these health tracking devices for his clients’ homes, such as floorboards lined with sensors for a homeowner who is prone to seizures, says the New York Times. CORONAVIRUS: RESOURCES AND INFORMATION.

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Pro Builder

OCTOBER 19, 2020

The projects features look through the lens of six ambitions: reducing car dependency, boosting health, supporting seniors, promoting diversity and justice, creating job opportunities, and protecting the environment. .

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ENR Construction

MARCH 26, 2020

New York City-based practitioner, 71, was a distinctive voice for social justice and sustainability in design of the urban environment.

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Viewpoint Construction Technology

MAY 17, 2017

The American Institute of Architects’ Committee on the Environment looks at the best green buildings each year that save energy and water, utilize eco-conscious materials, and overall enhance the environment. New York, New York. Ng Teng Fong General Hospital and Jurong Community Hospital. Feet: 16,940.

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BD+C

MAY 10, 2024

By treating the city as a natural environment, we have the opportunity to soften its hardness, both literally and figuratively. In fact, companies increasingly view it as their responsibility to create these kind of environments, both for the health and well-being of their employees and for their communities.

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BD+C

DECEMBER 5, 2014

Locke and Joaquin Reyes wanted New York City''s residents to think about them in a different way. In an effort to change the way people thought about and interacted with public space in their urban environment, Locke and Reyes successfully crowdfunded the "Inflato Dumpster" on Kickstarter. Body Image: read more.

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Pro Builder

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

Public opinion on climate change shows that Americans care more about the environment than elected officials, according to recently released research. One stance the public holds is the need for a ban on residential construction in flood- or fire-prone areas, according to the New York Times.

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BD+C

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

HOK has become the latest AEC firm to form a partnership with Delos, the New York-based real estate developer whose International WELL Building Institute’s WELL Building standard establishes performance criteria for occupant health in the built environment.

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Green Building Law Update

NOVEMBER 17, 2019

PFOAs are very persistent in the environment and in the human body, meaning they don’t break down, accumulating over time, and as such have been referred to ‘forever chemicals’ making them an emergent environmental priority. This technology may in the future make treatability and actually removing PFOA from the environment realistic.

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Construction Specifier

DECEMBER 15, 2023

The multifamily building, Houston House, in East Village, New York, features lightwieght cladding by Sto Corp. Cutting down on carbon Carbon emissions from the building sector are significant, and they have an impact on the environment. Photos courtesy Sto Corp.

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Green Building Law Update

APRIL 19, 2020

I wrote in a blog post last November, PFOA Contamination Found in 49 States , the “New York Attorney commenced a civil suit against the nation’s largest chemical manufacturers and several firefighting foam makers for what the complaint alleges is contamination of water supplies across the state with PFAS.” It passed legislation (.

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Stok

OCTOBER 12, 2021

By incorporating design features that are third-party verified to both support human health and the natural environment, the campus is a physical manifestation of the need for alignment between healthy people and a healthy environment. Stok is reimagining the built environment. The editor-in-chief is Stephanie Mehta.

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Construction Specifier

JUNE 4, 2020

Recent developments in virtual reality (VR) technology allow for the visualization of unbuilt information as full-scale occupiable environments, providing previously unavailable insight to designers, clients, and other stakeholders. The design team used dedicated software to translate the BIM model into a VR-friendly environment.

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BD+C

JANUARY 2, 2024

rcassidy Tue, 01/02/2024 - 14:16 John Sullivan, AIA A new study by a collaboration of design, engineering, and construction firms describes cost-effective strategies for building laboratories and science+technology facilities using mass timber.

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Construction Specifier

JANUARY 31, 2022

In fact, officials of New York City are beginning to re-examine its zoning to ensure green spaces and parks are accessible and equitably distributed throughout the urban landscape. This illustrates the trend of outside spaces being the extension of the built environment.

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Buisness Facilities Contributed Content

FEBRUARY 19, 2016

The New York City Economic Development Corporation (NYCEDC) has launched UrbanTech NYC , a comprehensive program to help entrepreneurs and innovators address New York City’s most pressing urban challenges in sectors such as energy, waste, transportation, agriculture and water.

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