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Refine versus shine: Defining and defending design intent with refined concrete

Construction Specifier

From floors failing before substantial completion to skyrocketing change orders for never-ending densifier applications to the billions lost through delayed schedules, legal disputes, and contingency hemorrhaging, enough is enough. There are countless floor finishes ( e.g. grind and seals, burnished polish concrete, etc.)

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Stantec to acquire Page, a US-based full-service design, architecture, and engineering firm

Civil + Structural Engineer

Stantec and Page have a shared history of providing design excellence as evident in their collaboration on the six-story, 150,000-square-foot Brian D. Jellison Outpatient Cancer Pavilion and the seven-story, 200,000-square-foot Outpatient Cancer Center Institute for Sarasota Memorial Health Care System in Sarasota, Florida.

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Plantd Finds First Farmer for Perennial Grass

The Pro Builder

Their first test case is structural panels, but they hope to perfect it before expanding into other product categories like sub-flooring and two-by-fours after. Horton , is collaborating with Plantd to install 250,000 carbon-negative structural panels in over 1,000 homes. The nation’s largest homebuilder, D.R.

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Concept Homes to Promote the Wellness that People Want from Their Homes

The Pro Builder

The ground floor is a full studio home, and the main rental home above includes 3 bedrooms and 2.5 The for-rent home will have a front porch for the ADU and a private second-floor deck for the unit above. The for-sale home will have an elevated front porch and a third-floor outdoor deck and covered patio.

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D.R. Horton Buys 250,000 Grass-Made, Structural Panels from Plantd

The Pro Builder

Horton , is collaborating with innovative startup Plantd to install 250,000 alternative structural panels in over 1,000 homes. The company’s collaboration with D.R. With modular machines as long as 140 feet, Plantd aims to expand into other product categories like sub-flooring and two-by-fours. What makes the panels alternative?

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A Case (Study) for Off-Site Construction in Home Building

The Pro Builder

Rather, it employed an off-site construction method that built all of the wall panels, floor panels, and roof trusses in a nearby factory and assembled them on site in fewer than three days. Agorus' framing package for Daybreak included premade floor systems, each panel specifically engineered for its application in the system.

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Tangram Interiors Is Now a Certified Woman-Owned Business, Led by Chairman Sonya Mitrovich Lozowski, MD

Civil + Structural Engineer

Mitrovich Lozowski brings years of experience to the table, having served as a Managing Member of Pacific Holdings and a Medical Director of a health center at the University of MI Health System. The company has nurtured a collaborative and people-focused culture in the belief that people fuel innovation.