Innovation won out with Construction Dive readers this week with design concepts and a unique approach to asphalt ranking atop our list of most popular reads.
Every Friday, we gather the five most read posts from the news feed to make the end of your week a little easier. Here's what you may have missed from the past seven days:
- Cranes, trucks come alive as redevelopment restarts in Atlanta's Buckhead—The project, once called Streets at Buckhead and stalled for four recession-bound years, is back in gear.
- Put a little pig in your paving, some hog in your highway—The state transportation research lab in Illinois is one facility looking at the use of swine waste to make a bio-oil binder for asphalt.
- Designers have been recreating the bathroom basics for residential—Fixture designers have come up with fanciful ways to provide for the basic functions in residences, including as fold-away shower stall.
- Spec house in Dade County sells – for $47 million—Developers Shlomi Alexander and Felix Cohen built the 30,000-square foot estate figuring someone would want it, and someone did.
- Med center success makes Calif. firm a big BIM booster—CO Architects used BIM from the beginning for the Palomar Medical Center West, and now that's the firm's only way.
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