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The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) recently announced the winners of the first phase of the Building Envelope Innovation Prize. The prize targets high-performance, cost-effective secondary glazing systems to improve efficiency of commercial windows.
All eight manufacturers in the U.S. Department of Energy’s Residential Cold Climate Heat Pump Challenge completed rigorous product field testing to demonstrate energy efficiency and improved performance in cold weather.
While natural disasters such as hurricanes and wildfires can destroy buildings in minutes, other factors exacerbated by climate change degrade buildings more slowly but still cause costly damage.
A new construction industry CEO Advisory Council dedicated to addressing the issue of suicide in the construction industry recently took shape. The council will guide an industry-wide effort to develop solutions targeting the high rate of suicide among construction workers.
Zoning, property rights, building codes all could be re-imagined.
If U.S. healthcare were a country, it would rank 13th in GHG emissions.
Would have allowed five city agencies to use alternate delivery method.
Database will offer rich data set on energy-efficient buildings in the U.S.
Alleged to have been sham business in bid to win city public works contract.
New studies indicate significant number of construction workers suffer hearing loss.
Expected to improve consistency of risk evaluation on commercial real estate transactions.
No single factor determines whether a project yields stronger benefit as a P3.
Offsite parking and more space for valet parking lines are among the foreseeable changes.
Massport’s guidelines a step forward for integrated BIM initiative.
