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The Dutch government is leading the fight to retrofit against climate change

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Energiesprong (which translates to “energy jump”), a nonprofit that the Dutch government helped launch a decade ago, is coordinating a system of mass retrofits. 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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China will build replacement for Gensler soccer stadium design in Guangzhou following Evergrande debt scramble

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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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AECOM, Bechtel officially join reconstruction effort in Ukraine

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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

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UK government to force developers to meet £4 billion cladding costs

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Homebuilders in England have been told by the government that they must agree to fund the replacement of unsafe cladding on mid-rise blocks in the wake of the Grenfell Tower fire. An estimated £4 billion is required to fix dangerous cladding found on mid-rise blocks following the deadly Grenfell Tower fire in June 2017.

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UK government could block developers that refuse to pay cladding costs from housing market

Deezen

The UK government has threatened to block property developers who refuse to contribute towards the costs of fixing unsafe cladding from obtaining planning permission or building control sign-off. With talks between the government and industry ongoing, the proposals put forward this week spell out the severe nature of those penalties.

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Toronto proposes at 49% increase to development charges

Brandon Donnelly

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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D.C. steps up office-to-residential conversions in the face of housing shortage

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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.