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Viva Las Vegas: CRE and Retail Construction Insights and Trends from ICSC RECon

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Retailers have scaled back their footprints significantly since 2008, some even cutting store size in half. Finally, some owners are making the decision to simply raze bigger stores and sit on the land until something comes along or they can change the zoning to fit another project – often with an eye toward the hot multifamily sector.

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Construction Business Owner Blogs

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The more complex answer is workers are being pushed and pressured on production to the point that workers get into a zone of “get it done regardless of safety.” It is simple, get ownership and management back on track by placing safety above all else and fleshing that out every day at the office and on the jobsites. December 2008.

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Revit OpEd: Room Separation Lines - Agida for MEP?

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The essence of my response via email: HVAC Zones are meant to combine spaces into larger more coherent collections for engineering purposes. I have recently had to use room separation lines as the only way to create rudimentary FM schedules to allocate users and equipment to a desk/zone. Aaron Maller. Thanks for the comments all!

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How to design for adaptive reuse: Don’t reinvent the wheel

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After the 2008 financial crisis when malls began shuttering and sitting vacant at a rapid rate, Gresham Smith became a pioneer in this approach, most notably through our work to re-envision One Hundred Oaks Mall in Nashville, which is now a successful, mixed-use medical office destination. Here’s a look at a few examples of our work.

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Business Report: Garden State Growth Zones Aim to Lift New Jersey’s Cities

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It places extra emphasis on spurring development and private-sector job growth in new Garden State Growth Zones (GSGZ) identified in the legislation as the four lowest median family income cities in the state: Camden, Trenton, Passaic and Paterson. The new law builds on Christie’s commitment to revitalizing New Jersey’s cities. Laurel, NJ.

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Business Facilities Names 2013 Deal of the Year Winners

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Phase 1 of the project will consist of 100,000 square feet of purpose-built sound states, 100,000 square feet of production offices and 200,000 square feet of workshops and service provider spaces. In 2007, the statewide economic impact from film was estimated at $242 million; by 2013 this had grown to $3.5

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Current and Future Use of BIM – 2013 – UK

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A designer’s primary interest is for example the spatial structure, a structural engineer’s primary interest is the load bearing structure, while an energy engineer is interested in climate zones. For example, the use of the BIM model to produce cost and time estimates has been identified as a paradigm shift (Gier 2008).

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