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Senate Bill 9: A Game Changer in California’s Housing Landscape

Santa Cruz Architect

Understanding SB-9: The Duplex Bill SB-9 fundamentally alters the municipal review process for two-unit housing developments on single-family lots and property subdivision. Estimates suggest a need for 3.5 Impact on Architectural Development For architects and designers, SB-9 presents both opportunities and challenges.

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Fast-tracking construction projects offers both risk and reward

BD+C

Sanaa Hussain, Associate Contractors Designers Designers / Specifiers / Landscape Architects Engineers Architects Building Owners AEC Innovators Project + Process Innovation Projects Resources Between the pandemic and the current economic situation, businesses of all kinds are rethinking the best way to get things done.

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What's next for affordable housing in 2024?

BD+C

The urban core is a big focus of development, though there is also clear interest in surrounding neighborhoods. Photo © Ryan Kurtz, courtesy GBBN Architects For designers and developers, this means recognizing opportunities in affordable housing to center people’s needs holistically while responding to the local history, culture, and climate.

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Reinvestment without displacement: North Avenue Market

Community Architect Daily

“Our aim is to foster an environment conducive to artistic experimentation, creativity, and serendipitous encounters—the very essence of innovation and collaboration,” Ellen Janes, executive director of Central Baltimore Partnership (CBP). as partners. as partners. Waverly Main Street and various businesses were other key players.

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FCA proposed new rules to tackle greenwashing

e-architect

For the construction sector, this means that architects, planners and developers offering green projects and developments must ensure that their marketing and consumer-facing disclosures meet certain criteria in order to be valid for customers. What impact will the FCA’s proposed rules to tackle greenwashing have on our industry?

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Why All Architects Should Tackle an Adaptive Reuse Project At Least Once in their Careers

Architizer

Renovation is not only a new creative frontier for architects, it is the future of architecture: according to Deloitte estimates, up to 90 percent of future development will involve re-designing existing buildings. At this point, adaptive reuse is mainstream, and the carbon-saving benefits are well-known (and widely touted).

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NEOM: Will the Multi-Billion Dollar Mega-City Ever Come to Life? 

Architizer

Having been dubbed the next step in humanity’s evolution, it is no surprise that about $500 billion worth of funding has already been poured into developing the online presence of the new city-state NEOM. But, five years into its development, the project is severely behind schedule and facing further issues at every junction.

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