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August 11,2010In the midst of a potential U.S. recession, steel prices are breaking records according to MarketWatch, including hot-rolled coil steel (up 72%) and cold-rolled steel (up 62%). The International Iron and Steel Institute reports demand is also on the rise, predicting a global increase of 6.7% in 2008 and 6.
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August 11,2010Architects and engineers today still depend on paper to distribute their finished products to the construction trades. With all the hoopla about e-mail and Internet-based systems that distribute digital information to the masses, plotted drawings and printed documents are still the means by which designers, owners and contractors perform most of their design and construction functions.
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August 11,2010Construction work has begun on the 30,500-sf, five-story Converge Condominiums in Chicago's Lincoln Park neighborhood. Designed by Hartshorne Plunkard Architecture, Chicago, the development will include 16 1,500-sf units, each featuring floor-to-ceiling windows, oversized glass-paneled corner balconies, hardwood floors, Italian cabinetry, granite countertops, and stainless-steel appliances.
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August 11,2010• USGBC will collect performance data on all LEED buildings. The U.S. Green Building Council has launched the Building Performance Initiative, a program designed to put in place a comprehensive data collection effort from all buildings that have achieved LEED certification. The program will also implement an appropriate analysis methodology of that data and provide feedback to building ow...
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August 11,2010A three-firm design-build team has been awarded its third project at the Great Lakes (Ill.) Naval Base. The team of Blinderman Construction, M+W Zander, and Clark Construction, all Chicago offices, will design and construct a $36.4 million processing day barracks for the Great Lakes Recruit Training Center.
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August 11,2010Federal government agencies expect to conduct a healthy volume of building construction in the 2001 fiscal year, which began Oct. 1, according to presentations made by agency spokesmen at FedCon, the recent 2001 federal construction forecast sponsored by CMD Group and the National Institute of Building Sciences.
