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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. The resulting spaces can accommodate a diverse group of tenants.

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Expanding the exterior footprint

Construction Specifier

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. It also creates a new building zone called the ‘mid-doors,’ a term coined recently by Transsolar’s Erik Olsen, in his series “What is Indoors?”

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8 strategies for multifamily passive house design projects

BD+C

Thus, site selection, site orientation, climate zone, and building orientation are key on passive house projects. It calculates the two-dimensional heat-transfer effects in building components such as windows, walls, foundations, roofs, and doors. Passive house seeks to eliminate thermal bridges, so we had to innovate.

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Boston’s Plan to “Be Blue”

PSMJ Resources

Photo courtesy of Inhabitat.com Last year at a forum hosted by the Beverly Willis Architecture Foundation, futurist Edie Weiner predicted that green-to-blue spaces (spaces that give back more than they take) would gain traction in the years ahead. Here in Boston, home of PSMJ’s headquarters, it’s looks as though she’s right.

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Business Facilities’ 15th Annual Rankings: State Rankings Report

Business Facilities

So this year we’re introducing our Cybersecurity Growth Potential ranking, which is based on an across-the-board evaluation of each state’s cyber ecosystem, including higher ed resources, research labs and innovation centers, and partnerships with national security programs, as well as employment. OPPORTUNITY ZONES ARE HERE.

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Builder of the Year Ivory Homes' Innovation Agenda

Pro Builder

Builder of the Year Ivory Homes' Innovation Agenda. He was like, ‘I can really do something because there are so many capable people who are willing to collaborate and innovate.’” The Prize of Innovation. Let’s talk about how we can spur innovation, creativity, and different things that just haven’t happened in this industry.”.

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Augmenting Your Workforce for Success

Autodesk Construction Cloud

Robotics, in particular, assists people in risky situations, ensuring that workers won't have to strain their bodies or put themselves in harm's way when working in confined spaces or hazardous zones. Part of doing this is promoting innovation and rewarding people who try new things (rather than punishing them when something doesn't work).