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Addressing the climate transition requires a new way of thinking. On the one hand, if the goal is net-zero emissions by 2050, the world is well short of meeting it. The United Nations has noted that there are big gaps between the targets that countries have committed to and the actions being taken to meet…

A project to build a 20-story hospital tower on the Henry Ford Health campus in Detroit has marked a worldwide first with placement of four W14x1000 steel columns installed at the bracing core at the base of the tower portion of the hospital. The columns, each weighing about 1,000 pounds per ft, were installed July…

A new report on the Canadian government’s procurement practices urges wider rollout of the vendor performance management (VPM) system that Public Services and Procurement Canada (PSPC) is now phasing in for select contractors and more openness to innovative tendering formats such as negotiated requests for proposals (NRFPs). To achieve this, and enhance the efficiency and…

  Site work has started on Iowa’s most-expensive construction project to date, a $2.2-billion patient care tower to be built on the north side of The University of Iowa Healthcare campus in Iowa City. The general contractor for the 842,000-sq-ft patient care tower is JE Dunn; the architect is Neumann Monson Architects, which has offices in…

Dive Brief: Oregon lawmakers have passed two bills that experts say will make facilities more resilient as the state’s power grid faces rising electricity demand, more frequent extreme weather events and repeated public safety power shutoffs to mitigate wildfire risk. HB 2065 and HB 2066 create “a first-in-the nation strategy to create a regulatory framework…

The Supply Chain Sustainability School today launches a vital new guide, Measuring and Reporting Waste in the Built Environment: A Practical Guide, which reveals the scale of built environment waste and what the industry must do next. The UK construction sector generates 62 per cent of the country’s total waste, with 32 per cent sent…