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Make It Resilient 2024 Student Contest Encourages New Ways to Build for Extreme Environments

Autodesk Construction Cloud

In traveling to Phoenix-based construction technology firm Nox Innovations, he explores firsthand how builders are constructing for extreme environments here and gleaning lessons about resilience that could be extended beyond planet Earth. Make It Resilient 2024 is now open, and the deadline to submit is June 24, 2024.

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NAWIC Block Kids: The Future of Construction

Carol Hagen

The Greater Phoenix Chapter recently held their Block Kids competition at the Encanto Elecmentary School with over 50 young builders creatively assembling project models (done without BIM) using 100 building blocks, 1 sheet of construction paper, a piece of tin foil, a rock and a string.

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Investors Plan to Spend $1 Billion on Single-Family Rentals

Pro Builder

Today, nearly 30 states are home to such developments cropping up outside cities like Phoenix, Nashville, and Atlanta, according to the Wall Street Journal, "We didn't want to get into homeownership," Joe Paul, a resident of a community in Arizona, told the Journal. Read More. . Built for Rent.

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New Study Reveals Cost Effectiveness of Solar Panels

Pro Builder

Home Innovation Research Labs’ new study looks at the cost effectiveness of solar panels across five markets across the country: Phoenix, Tampa, Boston, Kansas City, and Seattle. Home Innovation completed the report by using software from the DOE’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory, says the National Association of Home Builders.

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Are You Ready for Build to Rent?

Pro Builder

And ResiBuilt has a pipeline of 3,300 more lots across a regional footprint and sufficient capital to expand its DRC model. . announced it was selling five of its communities in Phoenix, a total of 943 homes, to an affiliate of The Inland Real Estate Group of Companies , in Oak Brook, Ill. and getting stronger. Scottsdale, Ariz.-based

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How This Arizona Luxury Home Builder Is Making a Move to Diversify

Pro Builder

The first 12 rental homes, featuring a backyard and a garage, were built in 2020 in Phoenix and were rented within 30 days after completion. These [parcels] were in existing residential communities and we decided we’d create a business model that has an exit strategy. Exterior of Arcadia Communities' Valencia model at Citrus Square.

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John Deere Produces 250,000th Backhoe

Construction Equipment

The model 310SK backhoe loader was purchased by Phoenix-based NPL Construction Co., The John Deere Construction & Forestry Division completed its 250,000 th backhoe loader at the Dubuque Works factory in Dubuque, Iowa on March 1, 2013. who received the machine at a ceremony at the Dubuque Works facility.

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