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5 ways mass timber will reshape the design of life sciences facilities

BD+C

Laboratories Designers Codes and Standards Mass Timber Building Materials Building Technology With mass timber’s growing popularity in the built environment, its intersection with the life sciences market offers an untapped potential for sustainable innovation. Here are five reasons why. Rendering courtesy SGA.

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Top 25 Finalists for Ivory Innovations' Housing Affordability Prize

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BotBuilt uses the latest technology to implement advanced motion planning with computer vision to build a more sustainable future for construction, forever changing the way the world builds with automation. zoning codes through a first-of-its-kind user-friendly online resource. Category Innovators

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Top questions to ask when designing a green roof

GCP Applied Technologies

Roof utilization is a big driver for many employers who are looking to create recreational space for their staff or visitors, while others are creating green roofs for sustainability reasons. This is a huge indicator of the feasibility of a green roof. Hardiness zones also determine feasibility of different plant species. .

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Passive House is “In” in 2017

Green Building Law Update

New York City Zone Green thick wall exclusion allows for up to 8 inches of wall thickness to be exempted from the calculation of floor area to encourage high performance buildings without decreasing the amount of usable space in the building, including Passive construction.

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Oregon Incentives and Workforce Development Guide

Buisness Facilities Contributed Content

may be feasible for financing smaller projects, particularly within the $1,000,000 to $5 million cost range. In an enterprise zone, most authorized businesses enjoy a somewhat broader tax abatement using a different form. There are currently 68 enterprise zones in Oregon: 53 rural and 15 urban. .

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September 2014 newsletter

FDR Safety

To sustain a general duty clause violation, OSHA must prove all of the following, according to rulings by the Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission and the federal courts: The employer failed to keep the workplace free of a hazard to which its employees were exposed. There was a feasible and useful method to correct the hazard.

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Cracking the code of affordable housing

BD+C

Sustainable Senior Living Construction is well under way in Yonkers, N.Y., The plan featured low-rise, high-density housing and mid-rise apartments for seniors that blend affordable housing with all the social and economic elements needed to establish this successful and sustainable community. You’re building shelter for people.”

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