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August 11,2010Atlanta's traffic ranks as the worst in the nation. Consequently, businesses in and around the city struggle to retain employees who face long, stressful daily commutes. In a effort to help tackle the traffic issue head-on, BellSouth Corp. created the Atlanta Metro Plan — a $750 million, 3.
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August 11,2010When out-of-state contractors come into another state to perform work, they frequently bring with them contract clauses requiring any litigation or arbitration to be conducted on their home turf instead of the jurisdiction of the job site. Earlier this year, Illinois joined several other states in enacting a statute declaring such anti-forum selection clauses to be unenforceable.
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August 11,2010Hotel construction spending expanded faster than any other building market in 2006, helped by destination hotels in Las Vegas and other resort areas, as well as by business and consumer travel in large metro markets. This year, building activity will stay at year-end 2006 levels with job site spending rising just enough to cover project cost inflation.
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August 11,2010A former warehouse on Portland's Willamette River, which was redeveloped as RiverEast Center, has been awarded LEED Gold certification. The team of architects and engineers at Group Mackenzie transformed a 1951 concrete warehouse (right, top) into a boathouse for public use and a fully occupied office building for 250 creative professionals, seven businesses, and two nonprofits.
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August 11,2010Most of us look at shipping containers and see … er, shipping containers. But not the designers of the traveling Nomadic Museum. Architect Shigeru Ban, of Tokyo, and San Francisco-based Gensler used 152 shipping containers stacked in a checkerboard pattern four containers high to form walls for the three-gallery museum.
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August 11,2010April 30 was the day for the Construction Specifications Institute to post the fourth draft of the MasterFormat on its Web site (www.csinet.org/technic/mfrevision.htm) for comment by the A/E/C industry. CSI, based in Alexandria, Va., says Draft 4 came in response to the outcry over an earlier draft, which was deemed too complicated.
