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Sustainable Policy: How Deconstruction Policies Are Revolutionizing Construction Waste Management in the United States

March 18, 2024

Via: ArchDaily

For a long time, the construction industry has followed a linear process – extract raw materials, build structures, demolish them, and then dispose of the garbage in landfills. This approach has serious negative effects on the environment and society and […]


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What Makes an ADU Sustainable?

March 15, 2024

Via: gb&d magazine

An estimated 1.4 million legal accessory dwelling units—or ADUs—exist in the United States, with that number growing steadily larger each year. Housing experts, real estate agents, and urban planners alike have posited that this rise in ADU popularity could be […]


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The Future Beneath Our Feet: Soil-Cement Bricks and the Path to Sustainable Construction

February 13, 2024

Via: ArchDaily

Bricks are part of the collective imagination when thinking about construction. These are elementary, ubiquitous, modular, light, and reliable materials for erecting buildings. However, traditional ceramic block manufacturing relies on burning clay in kilns at high temperatures, often powered by […]


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US DOT Approves $2.5B in Bonds for Vegas-to-California High-Speed Rail

January 23, 2024

Via: ENR

The U.S. Dept. of Transportation has provided a further infusion of financial help for a long-delayed $12-billion high-speed passenger rail line from Las Vegas to southern California. DOT on Jan. 23 announced it is allocating $2.5 billion in private-activity bonds […]


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Adaptive Urban Regulations: Navigating Change in Affordable Housing, Infrastructure, and Sustainability in the U.S.

December 28, 2023

Via: ArchDaily

In the ever-evolving landscape of urban development, cities are faced with an array of challenges that demand quick and innovative solutions, ranging from the critical issue of affordable housing to the pressing need for efficient and decongested infrastructure and sustainable […]


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Supply Chain Modernization is Facing a Global Shortage of Skilled Workers

December 14, 2023

Via: ENR

The supply chain and overall construction industry is truly made up of its people. It is common for crews to work together for years, spanning the globe together and learning to rely on one another and the skills they have […]


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Streamlining the inspection of construction sites with a stormwater activity management solution

December 11, 2023

Via: Construction Dive

Large construction projects have numerous stakeholders who are responsible for different aspects throughout the construction lifecycle, managing stormwater runoff is critical since active construction sites can be a large contributor to pollutants entering a community’s waterways if not managed properly. […]


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Office construction may never return to pre-pandemic levels

November 28, 2023

Via: Construction Dive

In February, JE Dunn, a Kansas City, Missouri-based construction firm, broke ground on a 677-foot-tall office tower in downtown Omaha, Nebraska. The $600 million project, which will be the new corporate headquarters for insurance company Mutual of Omaha, includes 800,000 […]


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Sustainable Housing: Examples & Trends in 2023

November 9, 2023

Via: gb&d magazine

Housing may be a human right, but affordable housing—and perhaps even moreso sustainable affordable housing—has become increasingly difficult for the average person to access. This is true both in terms of the private residence as well as public housing, as […]


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Three steps to sustainability: How the cement and concrete industry can become carbon neutral by 2050

October 30, 2023

Via: Construction Dive

For people outside the construction industry, it comes as a big surprise to learn that concrete is the second most-consumed material in the world after water. While it may sound outrageous, it makes sense – concrete is seemingly everywhere you […]


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Crane count tumbles 10%

October 24, 2023

Via: Construction Dive

Residential cranes accounted for much of Q1’s count, but in Q3 there were 13% fewer in the surveyed cities. Nonetheless, RLB said residential cranes saw continued consistent growth, along with mixed-use projects, which made up 49% and 23% of the […]


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Construction input prices rise again as energy costs soar

October 12, 2023

Via: Construction Dive

The rise in prices was mainly due to a bump in energy costs. In September, prices increased in all three energy subcategories. While natural gas saw a jump of only 0.1%, crude petroleum and unprocessed energy materials rose 10.1% and […]


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Residential Sector Propels Construction Jobs to Sixth Straight Monthly Gain

October 6, 2023

Via: ENR

Continuing a recent trend, construction’s workforce grew by 11,000 jobs in September, the Bureau of Labor Statistics has reported. It is the sixth-consecutive monthly increase for the industry. In all, construction has added 217,000 jobs on a year-over-year basis, an […]


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BIM + PIM: Combining 2 strategies for enhanced construction management

September 25, 2023

Via: Construction Dive

Ask Architects, Engineers, CGs, and Owners about one of the most vexing elements of construction management, and they’ll likely mention the painstaking process of sifting through disparate project data. The crux of the challenge: stakeholders bring their own processes, tools, […]


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Construction M&A deals slow after record run

September 21, 2023

Via: Construction Dive

While high financing costs and lingering recession fears have yet to stymie contractors’ strong backlog levels, those headwinds have slowed the mergers and acquisitions market for construction and engineering firms, said Tristan Tahmaseb, vice president at ButcherJoseph & Co., a […]


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How the Concrete Industry is Going Green with ECOPact

September 18, 2023

Via: gb&d magazine

One of the megatrends of the 21st century is the unprecedented urbanization of the world’s population. According to the United Nations, more than half of the global population currently live in urban areas, and that number is projected to rise […]


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Infrastructure backlog jumps 24%, pushing demand to ‘upper end of historic levels’

September 13, 2023

Via: Construction Dive

Backlog fell on a monthly basis for companies with revenues of less than $100 million a year. That mirrors the slight downturn in monthly numbers from July to August as overall industry backlog, including private development, dipped 1.1% lower. But […]


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Architectural Business Index Holds Steady for July

August 28, 2023

Via: ENR

U.S. architectural firms report that their business generally is holding steady, according to the latest monthly index from the American Institute of Architects and Deltek. The AIA/Deltek Architectural Billings Index (ABI) for July, released on Aug. 23, showed a score […]


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Colorado Adopts Its First Building Energy Performance Standard

August 23, 2023

Via: ENR

Colorado’s Air Quality Control Commission adopted building energy performance standards Aug. 17 aimed at decreasing operational carbon and associated greenhouse gas emissions in most buildings 50,000 sq ft or bigger. The goal of Regulation 28, set by a 2021 state […]


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What is the status of the North American RT market?

August 21, 2023

Via: Construction Europe

With infrastructure and industrial construction on the rise, rough terrain cranes that may have been sitting unused are now plugging away on jobs across the U.S., Canada and Mexico. A crucial asset in any crane fleet, the RT is versatile, […]