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Autodesk also recently released its latest Autodesk Labs product, “Project Storm.” This technology preview offering provides cloud-based structural analysis to structural engineers as a part of the BIM process. Engineers and designers can extend design models from Autodesk Revit Structure to...
A $2 million grant from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development is giving a big boost to a planned renovation of downtown Toledo’s tallest building. The Fiberglas Tower, former home to Owens Corning, has been vacant since 1996.(http://www.toledoblade.com/local/2011/09/09/Fiberglas-...
The National Trust for Historic Preservation will demonstrate how to improve energy efficiency in older buildings in a rehab of a 19th-Century former school building in Denver. Constructed in 1885, the Emerson School is two-story masonry structure, with a one-story “cottage school” added in 1917....
The Port of San Francisco has launched an ambitious development plan to turn the massive Pier 70 into a new hub for offices targeted for technology and biotechnology innovators. The project plans call for restoration of historic old shipyard buildings and construction of 2.5 million sf of new...
A $450-million plan to transform the site of a 60-year-old coal-fired power plant into a sustainable mixed-use community, called “Potomac River Green,” was unveiled this month by the American Clean Skies Foundation (ACSF), a Washington, DC-based non-profit. (http://www.greenbang.com/from-coal-plant...
Reduced federal government construction budgets are likely to mean agencies will favor rehab of structures over new construction. The federal government spent $39.4 billion on construction in 2010, but will slash that amount by $2 billion in 2012, according to the Obama administration’s proposed...
For a number of reasons, PVC is a popular choice of material on reroofing projects: well-suited to “cool roof” goals, readily recyclable, flame resistant, and highly flexible. It’s important to recognize, however, that PVC membrane products are not compatible with asphalt-based products. (http://...
City Hall East, an Atlanta landmark and the largest brick building in the Southeast, will be transformed into an upscale mixed-use facility. The facility, now called Ponce City Market, will get a $180 million rehab to create 1 million sf of retail, office, and residential components, plus parking...
The City of Chicago is attempting to attract private funds to pay for energy efficiency upgrades of nearly 100 public buildings. The buildings that together have more than 6.5 million square feet of space would be retrofitted at a cost of about $40 million, reports the Chicago Sun-Times.
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The oldest building at the University of Minnesota’s twin cities campus is slated for a major overhaul. Eddy Hall, a 31,000 sf red brick Queen Anne-style structure listed on the National Register of Historic Places, has some structural deficiencies and needs to be transformed into modern office...
