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To Meet Current Challenges and Future Needs, We Need to Reinvent Home Building

The Pro Builder

To Meet Current Challenges and Future Needs, We Need to Reinvent Home Building ibush Sat, 08/19/2023 - 08:15 The pandemic rocked traditional rules and roles for work and home and reset expectations. And we are staying in our homes much longer than in the past, so a home has to be built for flexibility as lifestyle needs change.

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Leading the Movement in Green Transportation: California High-Speed Rail

Civil + Structural Engineer

As a part of their work with the Authority, Arup is responsible for several key tasks including renewable energy modeling and procurement, climate change adaptation and resilience, setting sustainable design criteria, managing greenhouse gas and air quality emissions, carbon offsetting, and sustainability reporting.

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ICC codes updated with the most significant changes in quarter-century

Construction Specifier

The International Code Council’s ( ICC ’s) 2024 plumbing and mechanical codes have the most significant changes in 25 years. The 2024 IPC improves public health through enhanced waste management requirements and plumbing system resilience to natural hazards. Photo courtesy International Code Council.

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Barrier breakthroughs: Achieving airtightness in modern construction

Construction Specifier

Photo courtesy Intertek As building codes and standards evolve, the demand for airtight, environmentally friendly building enclosures increases among building owners, insurers, and design professionals. Air barriers are essential for maintaining the integrity and performance of building enclosures.

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NAHB Advocacy Efforts and Outcomes

The Pro Builder

and providing greater flexibility when using bond financing to build or preserve LIHTC properties. Promoting Resilient Buildings Act In a positive development on the codes front, the House has passed the Promoting Resilient Buildings Act of 2023. Impact Fees In a separate Supreme Court case, Sheetz v.

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Why data could save your construction company and build organisational resilience

Autodesk Construction Cloud

However, looking at the 2021-2022 ASIC figures, construction disproportionately represented 26% of all insolvencies; as economic recovery remains uneven, uncertainty looms across the region, and those figures edge closer to 30% for the fiscal year, it is important that the industry builds resilience to weather the coming storms.

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A Gateway Project for Ecological Restoration 

Civil + Structural Engineer

Changes to the landscape during the construction of the old bridge narrowed the river, which significantly impacted biological resources and water quality. The project’s superstructure was completed, and falsework was removed, in December of 2021. This meant the contractor had to build custom one-time use forms for the flared columns.