Archinect

JULY 5, 2023

billion worth of damage to infrastructure across the country, according to estimates from the Kyiv School of Economics. AECOM and Bechtel have both announced their involvement in the international effort to rebuild Ukraine following 15 months of a devastating war which had, by mid-spring, enacted more than $147.5 Related.

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Archinect

OCTOBER 22, 2024

Department of Defense (DoD) using climate data to predict the cost of maintenance for military facilities threatened by extreme weather events has outlined new approaches for estimating condition loss and reduction of services. The risk calculations from the DAM are then applied to specific facilities to compute potential damages.

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ArchDaily

JANUARY 6, 2025

Designed to accommodate an estimated 2.5 million people in the coming decades, the development aims to address population growth in a sustainable manner. Following their selection, the firm has taken the lead on masterplanning , digital twin development, and coordination of a multidisciplinary team. Read more

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APRIL 15, 2025

A team of researchers from Northwestern University has developed a "carbon-negative" artificial sand that could replace conventional sand in concrete while permanently storing CO2. The material was developed in collaboration with Cemex , a leading global cement manufacturer. Photography courtesy of Northwestern University.

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Archinect

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

The "First-Aid Spatial Kit" initiative is being taught as part of the school’s first-year construction practice curriculum and allows students to develop copyable designs for various interventions (furniture, pavilions, play spaces, etc.), Each of t.

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Archinect

JULY 8, 2024

The pre-design work could cost up to $100 million before the estimated $1.4 The fate of the nearby unfinished Oceanwide Plaza development also remains unclear. Populous will be leading the design work for the project, which includes a landscaped component from OLIN as was previously reported in March of 2022.

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Archinect

MAY 10, 2024

The LA Times also reports the brokerage firm Colliers to have submitted an application estimating the property’s current value at $485 million and stating it is still just 60% completed. Another $865 million would be required to finish the block-scale development designed by CallisonRTKL. million.

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Archinect

AUGUST 9, 2022

Through the doldrums of America’s pandemic-triggered office downturn, the nation’s capital is quickly turning into a case study for the conversion of former commercial spaces into residential housing and mixed-use development. million square feet of rentable office space a prime target for prospective developers.

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Archinect

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

acre site at the confluence of Grand Boulevard, Locust Street, Truman Road, and 17th Street, the development would offer a connector to the nearby South Loop Link project from OJB Landscape Architecture and BNIM. Cost estimates for the project are between $1–2 billion. Slotted into a 17.5-acre

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Brandon Donnelly

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Back in 2020, Brian Potter came up with estimates for the entire US building stock. On a square footage basis, single-family homes are estimated to represent about 200 billion square feet. And in total, Brian estimated the entire US building stock to be around 340 billion square feet (again as of 2020). billion people.

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Archinect

MAY 26, 2022

Developers and city officials recently joined to celebrate the start of construction on a dual-building affordable housing complex in Brownsville, Brooklyn. The development site is located on Newport Street between Thatford and Rockaway Avenues and will debut as Bridge Rockaway.

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Archinect

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Architecture 2030 ’s new CARE (Carbon Avoided Retrofit Estimator) Tool is a way of providing valuable statistics that show the carbon savings of each project accurately and using a standardized methodology.

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Archinect

JANUARY 14, 2022

“We thought, okay, let’s make home retrofits into a scalable solution,” says Christian Richter, who works in the organization’s market development team in Germany. our estimates are that we need to hit a retrofit rate between 4% and 6%.” “And if we’re going to hit net zero by 2050.

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Archinect

DECEMBER 29, 2021

The Saudi crown prince recently reiterated his intentions to finalize the planned 2030 development strategy for Riyadh , which would more than double the population of the country's capital backed by a public-private partnership worth approximately $500 billion at a low estimate.

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Archinect

MARCH 19, 2024

Chinese state-owned construction contractor will build China’s largest soccer park in Guangzhou on the site where struggling Chinese property developer China Evergrande Group was supposed to build its soccer stadium. The site was originally meant for a 100,000-seat stadium designed by Gensler.

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Brandon Donnelly

APRIL 13, 2022

The big news this week for Toronto city builders is that the city has put forward a proposal to substantially increase development charges. When our cost consultant ran the numbers back in 2019, the estimate was that about a quarter of the price of a new condominium in Toronto was going to government fees and taxes.

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Architizer

JANUARY 30, 2023

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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Archinect

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

On Monday, the Department of City Development (DCD) announced the development teams, a mix of nonprofit and for-profit developers, that will participate in the first round of the Homes MKE initiative. A total of 66 proposals were submitted, an unprecedented number according to the DCD, with 15 developers selected.

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DECEMBER 16, 2024

World Cement Association CEO Ian Riley explained that cement demand has been influenced by a decrease in new city developments in some countries as population growth has plateaued. billion tonnes per annum in 2020 to an estimated 1.8 billion tonnes per annum in 2020 to an estimated 1.8 billion tonnes per annum in 2024."

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Archinect

JULY 28, 2022

Kathy Hochul’s loftiest projects, which is estimated to cost a total of $22 billion. Additionally, a part of the financing plan includes charging the developers of the 10 skyscrapers planned for the site a fee instead of collecting city real estate taxes.

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Archinect

APRIL 15, 2022

Onni Group, the Canadian real estate development firm which has emerged as one of the most prolific builders in Downtown Los Angeles, has broken ground on the neighborhood's first high-rise building since the onset of the global pandemic.

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Archinect

JANUARY 19, 2023

Once developed, it will join Gehry’s similarly-designed Ocean Avenue Project and the 45-story The Grand LA as the latest Gehry Partners mixed-use projects to grace the Los Angeles area this decade. The assessor’s estimate for the Sunset property was $14.75

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Archinect

JULY 29, 2022

E-commerce is another common tenant, followed by light manufacturing operations from companies like IBM that leverage high-paying jobs in smaller communities like West Chester, Ohio already targeted by developers for their easier-to-navigate zoning laws. As he told the Times , "It doesn’t feel like that party will end any time soon."

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Archinect

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

If city leaders do not fix the housing plan or complete the rezoning by the new deadline, they could lose access to billions of dollars in affordable housing grants, officials with the state Department of Housing and Community Development said in a letter this week. “Rezoning the.

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Archinect

AUGUST 18, 2023

New York City officials announced plans on Thursday to ease the conversion of office buildings to housing and to open manufacturing areas south of Times Square to new residential development, as part of a broader push to reinvent the struggling business district in Midtown Manhattan and address the city’s housing crisis.

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Archinect

JANUARY 30, 2023

According to Urbanize NYC , the Restoration Plaza development will include two 13- and 16-story mixed-use structures separated by a 4-story community building to house art galleries, a dance studio, and other cultural spaces. Current estimates are for an eight-year construction timeline.

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Archinect

JULY 21, 2023

A team of researchers from The Ohio State University has developed a machine learning technique that converts old urban maps into three-dimensional digital models. The maps, created during the 19th and 20th centuries and frequently updated, were used by fire insurance companies to estimate their liabilities in about 12,000 U.S.

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Archinect

JULY 21, 2023

A team of researchers from The Ohio State University has developed a machine learning technique that converts old urban maps into three-dimensional digital models. The maps, created during the 19th and 20th centuries and frequently updated, were used by fire insurance companies to estimate their liabilities in about 12,000 U.S.

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Deezen

JULY 29, 2024

The investment will see the local economy boosted by an estimated £70 million in extra council tax and local spend over the first 10 years, once homes are occupied," said the company. Cycle and pedestrian lanes will connect the development to the nearby high street, railway station and surrounding area.

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Archinect

AUGUST 9, 2023

Bank of America has awarded a $1 million grant towards the development of the National Juneteenth Museum, designed by BIG. The money will contribute to the project’s estimated $70 million price tag.

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JANUARY 18, 2022

L'Innesto Milan is one of the winners of the Reinventing Cities global urban development competition , and Barreca & La Varra is aiming to make it the first zero-carbon example of Italy's "housing sociale". Read: Urban developments that "strive for zero carbon" to start on site in Milan, Paris, Reykjavik and Oslo.

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ArchDaily

JULY 7, 2023

As data from the United Nations also estimates an annual population growth rate of 0.7% , the country’s built environment is set to interact with a new discourse of demography and present its own perspective on how to build for billions. One where the design and development of the rural areas take precedence over the cities.

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Archinect

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

But at One Broadgate, the steel beams that once framed the London headquarters of inter-dealer broker TP Icap Plc will instead be salvaged from the site and recycled by developer Fabrix. When old office blocks are demolished, their steel frames are typically smelted down to be recycled, emitting thousands of tonnes of carbon in the process.

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Archinect

JANUARY 25, 2022

An estimated value of $3.6 billion has been placed on the planned 2025 project, which is still in the process of being molded according to the CEO for Lendlease , the Australian development group spearheading the public-private partnership behind the project. million-square-foot site.

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APRIL 4, 2025

A team of Virginia Tech researchers have developed the Sustainable Art Painting toolkit for kids, which converts food scraps generated by US schools into watercolour paint. The kit contains three sorting bins for compost and several tools the team developed that convert the scraps into watercolour paint.

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Archinect

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

The drama over the project provides a window into just how hard it is for the city to scale up its housing and shelter system, even as a recent report from the Department of Homelessness and Supportive Housing (HSH) estimated it would take more than 6,000 extra temporary and permanent beds to solve the crisis on the streets.

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AUGUST 19, 2024

One thing that attracted me to take this role is that Suriname is a developing country – we're in the beginning stage of everything that has to do with buildings, with infrastructure." "So A former Dutch colony, its development has been stunted by several bouts of political turmoil since it gained independence in 1975.

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