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The Art of Accurate Estimates: Streamlining Architecture and Home Improvement with Advanced Software

The Architecture Designs

Right from the start, having accurate estimates is crucial for guiding professionals through budgeting, planning, and execution. As technology evolves, traditional methods are giving way to more advanced solutions, and one such game-changer is construction estimating software.

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How Can Buildings Work for Everyone? The Future of Inclusivity and Accessibility in Architecture

ArchDaily

According to data from the World Bank, it is estimated that 1 billion people –equivalent to 15% of the world's population– live with some type of disability. In the future, this percentage could increase considerably, given the global trend of aging populations.

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Architecture 2030's new CARE Tool helps measure the carbon reduction of retrofit projects

Archinect

A new metric measuring the amount of carbon reduced in reuse projects is changing the way practitioners of the built environment can quantify the success of retrofit projects of all types and sizes.

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Building for Billions: Shifting the Focus to Rural India

ArchDaily

As data from the United Nations also estimates an annual population growth rate of 0.7% , the country’s built environment is set to interact with a new discourse of demography and present its own perspective on how to build for billions.

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Going viral: How the coronavirus pandemic could change the built environment

BD+C

That same week, the National Restaurant Association estimated that 110,000 restaurants could close within the following 30 days, on top of the 30,000 dining places that had already shuttered. according to the hospitality analytics company STR.

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Spec buildings have increasingly become the answer to commercial clients' pandemic growing pains

Archinect

“Historically, spec buildings have been risky, but in a market environment like we are in now, where there is a race to get goods to people faster and to manufacture more things, the flexibility of the spec space becomes an asset, not a liability.”

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An Obama-era renewable energy project is finally about to break ground in Southern California

Archinect

million-acre Desert Renewable Energy Conservation Plan (DRECP) after an elongated environment review and years of political toggling. The agency estimated that the plan requires a total invest. The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) finally approved the start of construction of the two first projects contained in the 10.8

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