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For the past several years, the main attractions for construction buffs in Orlando have been at the airport itself. 

Manhattan office project aims to beat city’s 2030 carbon emission targets by 46% and meet its 2050 carbon-neutral goals.

Salt Lake City adopted the nation’s first two consensus standards that address offsite construction last March, six months in advance of their publication by the International Code Council and the Modular Building Institute. Though ICC and MBI expect other jurisdictions to follow suit, to date there have been no other takers. 

What to do about natural gas will be one of the biggest challenges facing a new state-appointed commission on decarbonizing the building sector in the Bay State. 

The century-old Times Square venue is being physically lifted into place at the $2.6-billion, 46-story building being constructed on its site.

“Building Material Selection and Use: An Environmental Guide” (BMEG) includes a database of 50 building materials and their properties.

Amazon’s 2.1-million-sq-ft Metropolitan Park office development near the nation’s capital could become a model for other large-scale sustainable projects. The building team is tracking a 15% reduction in embodied carbon in the project's 200,000 cu yd of concrete and the two 22-story buildings are on course to qualify as net-zero operational carbon.

There was no measurable settlement during the Dec. 1-3 drilling for the second permanent pilot pile installed at the northwest corner of the troubled Millennium Tower in San Francisco, says Ronald O. Hamburger, engineer-of-record for the perimeter pile upgrade designed to stem settlement of the 645-ft-tall residential condominium.