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August 11,2010• AGC warns materials prices going up sharply. The Associated General Contractors of America (AGC) is warning owners, budget setters, and contractors to expect greater materials and labor cost increases in 2008 than they have experienced in the past 12 months. “The worsening slide in homebuilding and turmoil in the credit markets threaten some types of nonresidential construction.
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August 11,2010The 65,000-sf Center for the Intrepid, at Brooke Army Medical Center near San Antonio, was recently handed over to the U.S. Army in a gala ceremony attended by 3,000 onlookers and featured speeches from two presidential candidates: Senators John McCain (R-Ariz.) and Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.). Both senators are among the more than 600,000 people who donated a total of $50 million to comple...
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August 11,2010Excavation is finished on The West Edge, a $100 million mixed-use development on 2.4 acres in Kansas City, Mo. Designed by Moshe Safdie and Associates, Somerville, Mass., the project features 203,000 sf of leasable office space, a 128-room boutique hotel, 27,000 sf of retail and restaurant space, the Advertising Icon Museum, a 1,000-space underground parking garage, and a 261-seat multipurpose ...
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August 11,20103form Varia architectural resin panels can be custom designed with virtually any color, pattern, interlayer, and finish, providing architects with endless design possibilities for functional and decorative panel systems. Diane Taitt, IIDA, ASID, senior interior architect with GTM Architects, Bethesda, Md.
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August 11,2010Instead of creating a hard-paved fire lane at RadioShack's World Headquarters Riverfront campus in Fort Worth, Texas, Teske specified Invisible Structure's Grasspave2 to create load-bearing, pervious green spaces throughout the 37-acre campus. Grasspave2 is comprised of a sandy-gravel base course beneath the Grasspave2's HPDE ring and grid structure, which, when filled with sand and topped with...
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August 11,2010Starting last fall, average monthly warehouse construction starts have been down almost 50% compared to averages from the previous 12 months. That earlier surge in starts resulted in warehouse construction spending growing at a 15% annual pace from mid-2005 through 2006. Recent weaker starts should slow warehouse construction spending growth to 6–7% in 2007.
