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Rafael Pelli and Gruen Associates push to restore father César’s masterwork San Bernardino City Hall after 52 years

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” Chief of among the estimated $60 million renovation tasks is the work of replacing the building’s over 6,000 original windows, which Rafael Pelli says will now be double pane for improved insulation against the heat. The City of San Bernardino, California, shut down operations in the building in 2017 due to seismic concerns.

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Esteemed academic and architect Janice Shimizu has passed away at 54

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Janice won many hearts and minds throughout an estimable career in academia and the professional realm, sentiments that were repeated by the many people with whom she became familiar through her involvement in the Japanese-Canadian community in and around her native Manitoba.

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New construction starts in 2017 to increase 5% to $713 billion

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Dodge Data & Analytics today released its 2017 Dodge Construction Outlook. construction starts for 2017 will advance 5% to $713 billion, following gains of 11% in 2015 and an estimated 1% in 2016. The report predicts that total U.S.

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AIA Chief Economist Kermit Baker breaks down the industry's burgeoning renovation revolution

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That share has been increasing steadily since 2017, when it was 44.4%, up to 52% this year. The article also mentions the organization's estimate that only 10% were undertaken "as a result of the pandemic" in spite of the prevailing industry narrative. are done in the interest of improved building energy performance, with a scant 1.6%

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Free Webinar: How to Estimate Fees (An Architect’s Guide to Success)

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Hit the button below to sign up for the talk, which will take place at 1pm EST on Wednesday, February 8th : Register for Event → In this free live session, you will learn how to define your project scope, develop a Rough Order of Magnitude of construction cost, and estimate your project hours.

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A modest boost in licensed architects in 2017

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increased by 3% to 113,554 in 2017. NCARB estimates that there is now one architect for every 2,900 people in the U.S. The number of licensed architects in the U.S. Virgin Islands.

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Apartment deliveries will peak by mid-2017: Axiometrics report

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In its latest report, the Census Bureau estimates that annualized starts of structures with five or more units stood at 445,000 in October, up 28.2% The market researcher Axiometrics looked at its identified supply data and concludes that multifamily deliveries could peak by mid-year 2017. over the same month a year earlier.

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