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Building Tomorrows, Cities, AGC Trade on Skills
As the national war for skilled labor heats up, industry groups like AGC
are aggressively targeting the next generation. To fight gang recruitment
with opportunity, Chicago in particular has launched a new initiative that
offers job training to at-risk youth.
Design Duel: Obama Center Contests Eye Finish
Democratizing architecture? What better place to start than with a U.S.
Presidential Library? This spring in Chicago, while the official contest
nears a winner, here is an update on our own fun and surprisingly popular
crowd-sourced alternative.
IIT Design: What Touring the World Taught Us
After months of fact-finding visits to the far-flung trenches of the global
maker movement, IIT’s Institute of Design is back home this week, hosting a
World Strategy Tour Conference to share lessons learned from Hong Kong,
Mumbai, Detroit, and San Francisco.
Using Technology to Reduce Risk on Construction Projects
There are physical and financial risks on any jobsite, and they can be
exacerbated by lack of communication or simply not having the most recent
project documents on hand. Document management technologies could be the
solution.
Got Bacon? AIA Members Seek Tech in Philly
This week, architects from all over the world are descending on
Philadelphia, where the late urban planner Edmund Bacon’s two sons will
entertain as attendees learn new technologies that will help them transform
tomorrow’s cities.
Infrastructure Weak? Yes, So Let’s Spend Wisely
As if we hadn’t heard, ASCE has issued yet another report chronicling how
deficient U.S. infrastructure is. But this national Infrastructure Week,
just back from NYC, our own Rob McManamy fears some big public spending may
be sending the wrong message.
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