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SpaceX paying Los Angeles $1.4M annually for rocket factory

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Construction on the first phase of the project — an 80,000-square foot, 80-foot-tall fabrication hanger — will begin within a year.

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Innovative Approaches to Industrial Construction Project Management

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This has obviously led to large-scale improvements in the way structures are designed and building materials are fabricated. From wholesale flooring Los Angeles on the west coast to wind-resistant siding in our local Chicago market, choosing the right materials can mean hundreds of thousands of dollars to the overall cost of a project.

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Eli Broad museum files $19.8 million lawsuit over delays

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The Eli and Edythe Broad museum, currently under construction in Los Angeles, is suing German architectural fabricator Seele "for what it describes as delays in fabricating the building blocks for its unusual latticed facade," the New York Times reports.

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China Starts Building the World's Largest Soccer Stadium

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Evergrande Group, the biggest land organization in China and the proprietor of Guangzhou Evergrande, declared that notwithstanding the Flower City stadium, it would fabricate two extra stadiums with limits of 80,000 somewhere else in the nation, as indicated by ESPN. SoFi Stadium in Los Angeles — ?

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4 ways designers can help chief heat officers reduce climate change risks

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Among other cities, we’ve seen Miami, Phoenix, and Los Angeles all create this new role—and its emergence couldn't be more timely. Create a strategy for shade Natural shade should be a priority everywhere, with fabricated shade structures augmenting trees with additional shade opportunities. between 2018 and 2021.

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How (and why) Trimble created the world’s most detailed record EVER of an ancient Roman landmark

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After a quick upload, the project architects in Los Angeles start their innovative design for a modern addition on the facility, without ever having set foot on site! It's a 3D laser scanner, so it's going to make a point cloud out of the area. And that’s just the beginning!

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Expanding the exterior footprint

Construction Specifier

One example of this is C3, a Gensler spec project in Los Angeles which transforms the border between an office building and a parking structure into a curated series of outdoor spaces. serves as chief engineer for GKD-USA, a leader in metal fabrics for architectural applications, based in Cambridge, Maryland. Dale Payne, P.E.