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5 takes on Chicago’s 3rd annual global cities forum

June 15, 2017

Last week, BW contributing editor Rob McManamy attended the third annual Chicago Forum on Global Cities, which featured some familiar faces as speakers. Here, he’s distilled the five key takeaways.

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Healthy workforce critical to achieving healthy returns

June 13, 2017

Employee wellness. We typically associate it with health and fitness, but HUB International’s John Patrick, thinks employers should broaden their scope — and even argues the importance of financial wellness.

A strategic approach to solving U.S. infrastructure inefficiencies

June 12, 2017

Contributor Ryen Tarbet talks about three big inefficiencies with today’s American infrastructure and proposes some strategic solutions.

Round up: Modular gets funded, tech acquisition and launches

June 9, 2017

Some of these companies might look familiar — we’re doing a little reminiscing with this week’s round up of news and announcements from members of the BuiltWorlds network. Want to be included? Send your press releases or story ideas to news@builtworlds.com. 1. FULL STACK MODULAR RAISES SERIES A Amidst ongoing […]

Clayco, Goettsch, CannonDesign join forces on Zurich HQ

June 8, 2017

Project Innovation Zurich NA Headquarters Inspired by his visit to Zurich Insurance Group’s new headquarters, Walker Thisted, BuiltWorlds producer and resident architect, talks to us about how the project originated and the design concepts and elements that were used in the final building. Many options were available to Zurich Insurance […]

Building NYC’s $20+ billion, 28-acre Hudson Yards

June 7, 2017

Walker Thisted, BuiltWorlds producer and resident architect, traveled to New York last month and took a look at Hudson Yards, the big redevelopment project on Manhattan’s west side. Here’s his take. In cities around the world, we’re seeing surface level infrastructure buried to accommodate the demand for increasingly dense urban […]

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