Commercial Building: Page 341
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Walkable urban development is already a market demand, professor says
In places, live-work-play development is already a market winner, though Prof. Christopher Leinberger says developers don't get it.
By Ron Gallagher • Sept. 6, 2012 -
AGC tells EPA proposed air rules could hurt construction industry
Associated General Contractors said proposed tighter standards for particulates could cause sanctions that would hamper highway work.
By Ron Gallagher • Sept. 6, 2012 -
Explore the Trendline➔
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TrendlineData center construction
New projects from customers like Meta, Google and Amazon make this a burgeoning sector for contractors.
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Bid to help young immigrants could cause employer headaches
Workers who take up a government offer to get legal work permits might cause questions about how they got jobs before.
By Ron Gallagher • Sept. 6, 2012 -
Extra owner and driver care can keep your trucks safe and your insurance bills down
There are several ways you can assure that safety and caution are on everyone's mind when your trucks are away from your base.
By Ron Gallagher • Sept. 5, 2012 -
Would you believe: Rip up space to attract office tenants
In San Francisco, some owners of older buildings are taking them back to their roots for a funky feel.
By Ron Gallagher • Sept. 5, 2012 -
Office is mending slowly, but industrial is looking good, agents say
Realtors blame a lack of job creation and tight credit for keeping office-space recovery at a crawl.
By Ron Gallagher • Sept. 5, 2012 -
Why build a new bridge if you can stretch the old one wider?
Workers slid one side of a steel-truss river crossing in Vermont 12.5 feet sideways to create a wider roadway.
By Ron Gallagher • Sept. 5, 2012 -
Don't just brand a finished building, build to fit a brand
A non-traditional approach for apartment construction is to determine what will succeed and let that drive programming.
By Ron Gallagher • Sept. 4, 2012 -
EPA to let single apartments, condos earn WaterSense label
The agency will let the label go unit-by-unit, but there has to be some compliance in common areas.
By Ron Gallagher • Sept. 4, 2012 -
July construction: Down from June, up from 2011 and dependent on private sector
The nation's total spending on construction in July was 0.9% lower than June's, but 9.3% higher than it was a year before.
By Ron Gallagher • Sept. 4, 2012 -
The cloud promises to take BIM to new heights of access and convenience
Cloud computing holds an opportunity to make building information modeling widely available and affordable.
By Ron Gallagher • Sept. 3, 2012 -
Green simply is part of getting government business now
The U.S. government, the country's biggest property owner, is serious about the details of green building.
By Ron Gallagher • Aug. 31, 2012 -
Do you know where your bulldozer is?
An annual report from agencies that track vehicle theft shows 11,075 pieces of heavy equipment went missing in 2011.
By Ron Gallagher • Aug. 30, 2012 -
Deep Dive
Most Read Construction News of the Week: On-site fabrication, Pinterest and Blu Homes
Want to see what everyone else was reading on Construction Dive this week? Check out our five most popular reads.
By Brian Warmoth • Aug. 30, 2012 -
Millennials will be the dominant demographic among renters
That group, born between 1980 and 1994, is not in the market for your (or its) father's apartment designs.
By Ron Gallagher • Aug. 30, 2012 -
Public-sector school construction opportunities shrink
Schools were a backstop when housing began to fall, but that market is drying up along with local budgets.
By Ron Gallagher • Aug. 29, 2012 -
You need to know what U.S., states want when you hire DBEs
Agencies that demand DBE involvement want to see that they are real companies doing real work.
By Ron Gallagher • Aug. 29, 2012 -
How Pinterest can work for construction companies
Infographics and product information can be used to direct readers back to registration pages and bolster other marketing efforts.
By Brian Warmoth • Aug. 29, 2012 -
Developers attend to the basics of building envelopes to cut costs later
Developers doing renovations and conversions understand that green building makes old-fashioned business sense.
By Ron Gallagher • Aug. 28, 2012 -
Autodesk buys Vela to take BIM data to the construction site
The maker of 3-D design and engineering software gets new abilities to push data to mobile platforms.
By Ron Gallagher • Aug. 28, 2012 -
'Swimming pool' seems too little for 29-acre water feature being built in Egypt
At a resort, a Chilean company is constructing a swimming pool big enough for playing with real sailboats.
By Ron Gallagher • Aug. 28, 2012 -
Government finds construction job count down in 165 metro areas, up in 123
Monthly data show jobs in construction grew scarcer in 165 metropolitan areas in the U.S. in July.
By Ron Gallagher • Aug. 28, 2012 -
New polymer for asphalt binder aims to produce thinner but tougher roads
Houston-based Kraton Polymers is testing a new additive that will allow twice as much polymer in asphalt.
By Ron Gallagher • Aug. 27, 2012 -
Commercial equipment buying and leasing is gathering strength
Data from the equipment finance industry shows that volume slipped from June to July, but it remains well ahead of last year.
By Ron Gallagher • Aug. 27, 2012 -
U.S. jobs problems, tight lending hold back some commercial construction sectors
The National Association of Realtors sees job problems hurting offices and credit hurting building demand.
By Ron Gallagher • Aug. 27, 2012
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