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How Private Housing Additions Are Creating a Back-Alley Market

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Millions of privately built home units are part of an informal housing market unfolding mostly in major cities where the cost of living is high and single-family zoning is limited, The New York Times reports. . Affordability. Housing Markets. Infill Housing. Infill Housing.

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Smart savings: Commissioning for the hybrid workplace

BD+C

The Human Element In most buildings, it isn’t feasible to move major HVAC system components. For example, let’s say that employees were theoretically spread out among many zones in the office before the hybrid workplace.

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Top 10 Ivory Innovations Finalists for the 2023 Housing Affordability Prize

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The prize awards organizations that demonstrate ambitious, feasible, and scalable solutions to the housing affordability crisis. National Zoning Atlas Ithaca, New York | Public Policy and Regulatory Reform Category The National Zoning Atlas is a collaborative of researchers digitizing, demystifying, & democratizing about 30,000 U.S.

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How to Design for the Build-for-Rent Market

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Solve for zoning with BFR pockets integrated within for-sale communities Similar to offering both attached and detached within a BFR development, providing both for-rent and for-sale units in one community can help solve for zoning. “If you do an attached product, it helps to have a detached product alongside it.”

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The Winning Homes in the Solar Decathlon Are …

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Evaluated for 10 different metrics, including energy efficiency, architectural design, innovation, and market potential, the homes had to be as technically impressive as they were feasible to build.

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Top 25 Finalists for Ivory Innovations' Housing Affordability Prize

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National Zoning Atlas | Ithaca, New York The National Zoning Atlas is a collaborative of researchers digitizing, demystifying, & democratizing about 30,000 U.S. zoning codes through a first-of-its-kind user-friendly online resource. Category Innovators

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Top questions to ask when designing a green roof

GCP Applied Technologies

This is a huge indicator of the feasibility of a green roof. Hardiness zones also determine feasibility of different plant species. . What is the load bearing capacity? The microclimates in different regions – and their associated temperature and precipitation rates - can impact which plantings are best for the green roof.

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