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Top Construction Estimating Services for Accurate Project Cost Estimation

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Construction projects can be complex, and accurate cost estimation is critical to your success. Considering many factors, including materials, labor, equipment, and more, it can be challenging for construction companies to provide accurate cost estimates. Thus, construction estimating services are essential.

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Frank Gehry's Ocean Avenue Project gets the final go-ahead in Santa Monica

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After nearly a decade of planning and design changes, Frank Gehry ’s proposed Ocean Avenue mixed-use development has finally been given the go-ahead by the Santa Monica City Council. million in economic benefits to the Westside community.

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ADU construction is now outpacing single-family developments in Seattle

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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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A new Kharkiv School of Architecture student project delivers valuable design solutions for rebuilding schools in Ukraine

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The "First-Aid Spatial Kit" initiative is being taught as part of the school’s first-year construction practice curriculum and allows students to develop copyable designs for various interventions (furniture, pavilions, play spaces, etc.), Each of t.

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Empire State Development approves massive Penn Station redevelopment proposal

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The eight-member board of Empire State Development, the state’s economic development agency and the group steering the project, unanimously voted in favor. The Penn Station Redevelopment Plan is set to be one of the largest real estate projects in U.S.

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Developer Fabrix employs urban mining to cut carbon footprint in its projects

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But at One Broadgate, the steel beams that once framed the London headquarters of inter-dealer broker TP Icap Plc will instead be salvaged from the site and recycled by developer Fabrix. ” Fabrix has purchased 139 tons of steel from the contractor behind the demolition of One Broadgate and plans to use it on other projects in London.

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Oceanwide Plaza, LA's unfinished high-rise graffiti mecca, faces impending sale

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The Chinese owners of the stalled residential, hotel and retail complex towering over Crypto.com Arena have hired real estate brokers to sell the property to buyers who could restart the project after work stopped in 2019. Another $865 million would be required to finish the block-scale development designed by CallisonRTKL.