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NAHB Develops Land Use Resources for Home Builders and Buyers

The Pro Builder

The effect of local land-use policy on housing affordability is not often readily understood by those outside of the home building industry. Each primer focuses on a component of land-use policy and the impact it has on builders and buyers: density, zoning, and development review.

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Unlocking the potential of pickleball and padel courts

CCR Magazine

As cities face challenges with limited land availability and increasing demand for recreational and entertainment facilities, adaptive reuse has emerged as a cost-effective, sustainable solution. Adaptive reuse refers to repurposing existing structures or land for a use different from its original intent. Cities across the U.S.

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Biodiversity and Development: How to Build Without Destroying Ecosystems

CCR Magazine

What strategies can we use to advance human development while protecting the planet’s diverse ecosystems? It’s essential to maintain biodiversity conservation while expanding infrastructure growth since these two goals can be achieved side by side.

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4 considerations for increasing biodiversity in construction projects

BDC Network

Polly Osborne Designers / Specifiers / Landscape Architects Engineers Architects Regulations Biophilic Design Sustainable Development Sustainable Design and Construction Urban Planning When we spend time in nature, we instinctively feel its value. There’s more focus than ever on the environmental impact of construction projects.

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Green Home Building and Sustainable Architecture: Affordable Eco.

Natural Building

Green Home Building and Sustainable Architecture. Sustainable architecture is an exciting and important field, with many people reviving traditional methods of building and others creating innovations to established practices. Kelly Hart has been involved with green building concepts for much of his life.

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The Start of Celebration: the 2023 Yearbook of Engineering Achievement

Civil + Structural Engineer

We ask that you join us in the celebration of the AEC industry and learn more about the projects leading the way in changing the future of the built environment. For the second consecutive year, one of HNTB’s projects has risen to the top as Summit Project award winner.

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2023 Yearbook of Engineering Achievement: Environmental/Sustainability

Civil + Structural Engineer

The park expands Arlington County’s ability to meet Chesapeake Bay Watershed regulations while cultivating native plants and providing new boardwalk areas and fresh interpretive designs. Planned by SWA Group architects and designed and managed by the engineering firm Lockwood, Andrews & Newnam Inc.,