Archinect

APRIL 21, 2023

Construction is set to begin on the Steven Holl Architects -designed Ostrava Concert Hall in the Czech Republic. Hall won the competition for the scheme’s design back in 2018 with a proposal that saw the concert hall “encased” in a case of zinc.

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Archinect

JUNE 3, 2023

Arizona has determined that there is not enough groundwater for all of the housing construction that has already been approved in the Phoenix area, and will stop developers from building some new subdivisions, a sign of looming trouble in the West and other places where overuse, drought and climate change are straining water supplies.

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Archinect

APRIL 10, 2023

The city granted permits to 988 units last year, and more than 650 were built — not all projects are built during the year they get permitted — outpacing the construction of single houses for the first time As the Seattle Times reports, a change in regulations in 2019 led to the ADU boom locally.

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Archinect

MAY 23, 2023

million in funding for its solution for the streamlined creation and management of architectural construction documents. million since its founding, describes itself as providing clients with “ AI-powered construction documents in minutes.” The Israeli startup SWAPP has raised $11.5 The platform, which has now raised $18.5

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Archinect

APRIL 25, 2023

Projects included in this year’s list run the gamut from new construction to revitalization and adaptive reuse. “Award recipients must demonstrate design achievement, including a sense of place, purpose, ecology, environmental sustainability, and history,” the Institute shares.

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Archinect

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

The Dodge Construction Network has produced a forecast for the U.S. construction sector for 2023, in which it signals a slowdown across many typologies. Overall, the dollar value of construction starts will be $1.08 trillion, which, though unchanged from 2022, represents a 3% dip when adjusted for inflation.

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Archinect

MARCH 23, 2023

Pennsylvania-based Advanced Construction Robotics (ACR) has unveiled its latest robot designed to handle rebar on construction sites. The company also claims the system can be mobilized on a construction site within 4 to 8 hours and can operate day or night.

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Archinect

APRIL 6, 2023

A new report predicts that the global market for artificial intelligence in construction will experience significant growth in the next decade. The report cites data from OSHA that since 2020, “one in five worker deaths per year were recorded from the construction sector.”

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Archinect

DECEMBER 12, 2022

A six month construction season is set to begin at the United Kingdom’s largest Antarctic research and operations hub. This is especially pertinent given the small window that construction can take place in the region in order to avoid its harsh and dark winte.

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Archinect

APRIL 14, 2023

A new report from the New York City Department of Buildings (DOB) has shown an alarming increase in construction worker fatalities in the city for 2022. This comes a year after the agency enacted a program of “zero tolerance” safety sweeps resulting in stop-work orders at nearly 1,500 construction sites throughout New York City.

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Archinect

MAY 19, 2023

According to new Dodge Construction Network data, total construction starts fell 4% in April to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of $1.04 On a year-to-date basis through April, total construction starts were 7% below the first four months of 2022. debt ceiling,” said Dodge Construction N.

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Archinect

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Construction has commenced on the $160 million expansion to the Seattle Aquarium. ” Project construction led by Turner. Video courtesy of Turner Construction.

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Archinect

JANUARY 17, 2023

The American Institute of Architects has published a forecast for nonresidential construction spending for 2023 and 2024, in which it projects positive though modest growth. The AIA Consensus Construction Forecast was computed as an average of nine separate forecasts for nonresidential construction made by industry groups.

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Archinect

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Construction has commenced on the Zaha Hadid Architects -designed Jinghe New City Culture & Art Center in China, following a ground-breaking ceremony on September 16th, 2022.

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Archinect

APRIL 3, 2023

A new concept for an EV charging station has won the American Institute of Steel Construction ’s 2023 Forge Prize at a special live-streamed event held Thursday, March 30th, in Chicago.

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Archinect

APRIL 17, 2023

Bureau of Labor Statistics Producer Price Index data has shown a year-to-year decline in the cost of construction input prices for the first time in 18 months. Overall construction input prices are now 0.9% lower compared to March of 2022, while nonresidential construction prices were recorded as having fallen 0.6%

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Archinect

OCTOBER 20, 2022

A group of research students at ETH Zurich has completed a timber geodesic dome constructed from nothing but demolition waste. Through dismantling an entire floor of the building, the group salvaged OSB panels, wooden beams, steel girders, and plastic piping for use in the pavilion.

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Archinect

MARCH 21, 2023

The latest data from the Dodge Construction Network (DCN) indicates a 6% rise in total construction starts for February, reversing January’s declines to a new seasonally adjusted annual rate of $912.8 While this ebbing should be comparatively mild, some construction verticals could face extreme stress as the year prog.

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Archinect

APRIL 5, 2023

After a “simply shocking” January where half of construction’s job openings vanished, the number of positions for which contractors are actively recruiting increased by 129,000 in February, according to analysis of Bureau of Labor Statistics data by Associated Builders and Contractors.

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Archinect

MAY 11, 2023

New York Governor Kathy Hochul has announced the start of construction of a $416 million mixed-income, mixed-use residential development in the Inwood neighborhood of Upper Manhattan.

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Archinect

MAY 4, 2023

The number of open jobs in construction dropped by 73,000 to 341,000 in March, the second lowest since mid-2021, according to an Associated Builders and Contractors’ analysis of new Bureau of Labor Statistics data. of construction workers were laid off or discharged in March, which is the highest rate since the start of the pandemic.

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Archinect

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Construction has commenced on the largest community of 3D printed residences in the United States. The hundred-home 'Wolf Ranch' development was designed by Bjarke Ingels Group and 3D printing technology group ICON and is being constructed in the city of Georgetown, Texas, just north of Austin.

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Archinect

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Total construction starts took a turn in January, falling 27% to a seasonally-adjusted annual rate of $865.6 billion, according to Dodge Construction Network. Compared to January 2022, total construction was 14% lower in January 2023. While some.

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Archinect

JANUARY 19, 2023

The one-minute-long YouTube video is set within a mock-up construction site, with Atlas seen assisting a human construction worker on scaffolding.

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Archinect

APRIL 12, 2023

contractors are struggling to meet the demand for nonresidential construction projects , according to new reporting by The Wall Street Journal. Despite a decline in residential construction triggered by rising interest rates, contractors have reported that spending on nonresidential projects has continued to surge.

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MAY 24, 2023

The Southern Gateway Public Green comprises a five-acre park in the Oak Cliff neighborhood of Dallas, built to reconnect a community that was divided by highway construction in the 1950s. The finished scheme will feature event spaces, a market-style dining and retail area, and lawns.

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designboom

JUNE 2, 2023

users can either choose from 100 pre-designed options or shape tailor-made constructions out of 13 prefabricated modules with countless arrangement options. The post mute’s omniroom revamps workspaces with flexible, construction-free interiors appeared first on designboom | architecture & design magazine.

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FEBRUARY 14, 2023

As a construction material, however, when put under enough directional force along its grain, sawn timber is structurally unstable, so deemed unsuitable under higher loads. © Alison Brooks Timber is a natural, renewable material, easy to fabricate, and with low-carbon emissions. Read more »

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Archinect

APRIL 20, 2023

March data from the Dodge Construction Network (DCN) has shown an increase in construction starts of 19% to what is now a three-month high despite concerns over the industry’s ties with Silicon Valley Bank following the financial institution’s controversial collapse at the beginning of the Month.

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Archinect

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

Tuskegee University has announced the establishment of an HBCU grant program by Turner Construction Company to provide the school’s architecture, construction science and management, and engineering programs with $70,000 annually starting this fall.

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Archinect

JANUARY 5, 2023

The ongoing makeover of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) has reached an important step as Urbanize LA is reporting that construction falsework is now in place for the $750 million new David Geffen Galleries by Peter Zumthor. The rest of the falsework should be installed by the end of January. Falsework is in place above.

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Archinect

MAY 5, 2023

Kennesaw State University has announced the appointment of Hazem Rashed-Ali as the dean of the College of Architecture and Construction Management. Rashed-Ali currently works as associate dean of research and innovation in the Huckabee College of Architecture at Texas Tech University. Rashed-Ali earned a Ph.D.

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JUNE 20, 2022

Students from the University at Buffalo have embarked on the construction of three tiny homes to help combat homelessness. Image courtesy of University at Buffalo The process began with students designing prototypes for tiny houses, which were developed into permit-ready construction documents for three homes in Syracuse, New York.

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Archinect

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

per 100,000 construction workers in New York state died on the job, a 9% increase from 11.1 The Committee also found that one-quarter of all workplace fatalities across New York state took place on construction sites, a repeat of the figure contained in the Deadly Skyline Report for 2020. In 2021, 12.1 Overall, an average of 53.6

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Archinect

MARCH 28, 2023

3D printing construction technology startup Mighty Buildings has offered a first look inside their new factory in Monterrey, Mexico.

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