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What Should Home Owners Be Aware Of Before Purchasing or Renovating a Home?

Aric Gitomer Architect

Understand the Local Regulations. From the homebuyers’ perspective, you must ensure to find out about the local regulations. Ignoring building regulations could dampen your plans of adding an extension or renovation in the future. This specifically includes the planning regulations and overhead taxes. are a must.

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Structural engineering solutions for office-to-residential conversion

BD+C

Edwin Dean, Joe Gulden, and Doug Sweeney MFPRO+ Blog High-rise Construction Apartments Office Buildings Engineers Codes Regulations Adaptive Reuse Reconstruction & Renovation Seismic Design Office-to-residential conversion seems like a simple solution to a problem. faces a housing deficit of 3.8 million units. million units.

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A New Hope [12]

A Better Built Environment

I’ll be joining them as a Senior Account Manager, consulting with firms to help improve their operations, management, and finances. This change in approach must extend all the way to the engineers that are designing our roads, and the rules that regulate their work. Check out their blog.

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Trends to watch shaping the future of ESG

BD+C

This blog first appeared as part of Gensler's Design Forecast blog series , looking at what’s next in 2023 and beyond. The social aspect of ESG is less regulated and structured than carbon emissions, and it’s still unclear what precisely it will mean and how it should get reported. Kirsten Ritchie: In the U.S.,

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Ugly Should Be Allowed

A Better Built Environment

We spend so much time and effort regulating the look, feel, and size of individual buildings we neglect to consider the impact these regulations have on the city at large. Codes, regulations, layers of review boards and community driven barriers to development aim to control the size, style, and use of what we build.

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Density - Dirty Word or Solution?

Community Architect Daily

Suburban fight against new development in Baltimore County (Photo: Baltimore Banner) Onerous regulations have been not only been a tool of separating use, race and class for a long time, they also control how many people can live in a given space, in other words: Density. Fear of density, however, remains. Re-zoning: The hottest trend?

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Is Density a Dirty Word or a Solution?

Community Architect

Today for the first time I publish an article written for my local blog ( Community Architect Daily ) also on this national and International site because of its national relevance in spite of the local examples. Discriminatory regulations are alive and well to this day, often in the guise of respectable goals.

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