Category: Featured
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After Five Years Of Living Here – We’re Renovating!!
Cue the demo dust! After 5+ years of living in this house, we’re embarking on a renovation! Of course over the holidays (because we are nothing if not consistent). We’ve tackled some sizable projects over the last five years here, like adding a pool in 2021, gutting & rebuilding our kitchen in 2022, and replacing…
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Finalists Named for 2025 Paschen Prize For Public Progress
Chicago, IL – National infrastructure builder F.H. Paschen has announced the shortlist finalists for the 2025 Paschen Prize for Public Progress. The national award honors outstanding construction and infrastructure projects that improve how Americans live, move, learn, and gather. The prize recognizes work across ten (10) categories. This year’s finalists come from six (6) states…
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Data center developer breaks ground on $3B Virginia campus
Listen to the article 2 min This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. Hyperscale data center projects are once again moving from planning desks to onsite construction in Virginia. CleanArc, an Arlington, Texas-based data center developer, broke ground on a $3 billion hyperscale campus in Caroline County, according to announcements…
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With flat revenues and increasing costs, more cities are tightening their belts
Listen to the article 3 min This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. Dive Brief: U.S. cities’ general fund spending increased 7.5% in fiscal year 2024, according to a new National League of Cities survey. However, that growth slowed to 0.7% in FY 2025 as new headwinds like policy uncertainty…
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Call for workforce reforms to tackle construction skills crisis
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in 1.5m new homes, apprenticeships, Careers, CSJ, education, Featured, Government, People, policy, skills, training“Instead of focusing purely on access to learning, they have understood that learners need teachers with strong industry experience to develop their skills, employers to take them on, and an industry which has a pipeline of work to sustain career progression. View the original article and our Inspiration here
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Why ChatGPT (still) needs a construction lawyer
Listen to the article 5 min This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. This feature is a part of “The Dotted Line” series, which takes an in-depth look at the complex legal landscape of the construction industry. To view the entire series, click here. Two and a half years ago, Construction…
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Retrofit of City’s Pinners Hall gets approval
The City of London Corporation has granted planning permission to revamp 108 Old Broad Street into 11,000 sq m of office space. German real estate investor and developer Patrizia said it will convert the 1990s building, formerly known as Pinners Hall, into a “highly sustainable office destination” that will increase net lettable space by around…
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New guide helps track carbon to meet UK net-zero buildings standard
Patrick Hayes, technical director at IStructE, added: “Like the creation of the standard, our guide has been a collaborative process, to help readers understand the standard’s purpose – to enable the industry to robustly verify whether UK buildings are net-zero carbon aligned, in line with the UK’s climate targets.” View the original article and our…
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5 Modern Ways to Monitor Concrete at the Jobsite
Concrete properties and quality testing are advancing as new technologies enter the industry. Traditional methods, such as break tests, remain widely accepted in standardized practices, but jobsites today demand precise and timely data. The most innovative projects now use digital tools that allow crews to monitor concrete workability and concrete strength continuously and in real…
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Tackle damp and mould with Lidl’s £80 dehumidifier
Lidl is selling the Black+Decker 12L Smart Dehumidifier for under £80 in its middle aisle, and I doubt it will stick around for very long. As someone who writes about the best dehumidifiers for a living, I know just how expensive they can get, and I’ve never come across this model so cheap before. In…