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Zurich, Singapore top sustainability index
Americans love competition; everybody knows that. It’s in our DNA. Well,
then how do we feel about being shut out of the Top 25 on Dutch design
giant Arcadis’s Sustainable Cities Index 2016? Read on to see where the
sustainability is strongest around the globe.
5 Best Practices of Top-Performing Owners
What makes certain construction owners perform better than others in
managing complex projects on a tight timeframe. In this report, Dodge Data
& Analytics and e-Builder talked to 174 owners nationwide to reverse
engineer their winning formulas.
Bio-build: DoD seeks self-healing materials
Science fiction once again is poised to invade the AEC, but unlike drones
and robots, this advance comes straight out nature. The Dept. of Defense
now wants to ‘grow’ better bricks that can heal themselves, so get set for
‘Engineered Living Materials’.
Green LA maps road to 100% renewables
Just weeks before it hosts USGBC’s Greenbuild 2016, the City of Los Angeles
has set its sites on an epic Hollywood makeover. The birthplace of smog now
is aiming to clean up its act and switch from fossil fuels to 100%
renewable energy sources ASAP.
Gang: Design-build dorm ‘supreme success’
Hogwarts in Hyde Park? The University of Chicago last week unveiled a new
$150-million, 400,000-sq-ft dormitory designed by renowned architect Jeanne
Gang, and built by Mortenson Construction. Read about their design-build
success story here.
Virginia to build $500M ‘smart city in-a-box’
Get Smart: Some 30 miles NW of DC, a high-powered team of designers,
developers, builders and technologists is forming to create a $500-million,
2.5-million-sq-ft, ‘Smart City In-a-Box’ platform they expect will be
transferrable all over the world.
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