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Newest Construction Projects in the United States for 2024

Building Radar

The construction industry in the United States is bustling with activity as we head into 2024. From sprawling commercial developments to state-of-the-art infrastructure, these projects are setting the stage for growth and innovation. Latest Construction Projects in the United States 1.

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PFAS in a Phase I Environmental Site Assessment?

Green Building Law Update

PFAS has been manufactured and used in a variety of industries around the globe, including in the United States since the 1940s and have been the most extensively produced and studied of these chemicals. 9601) and petroleum products.”.

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Maryland is First State to Legislate Permitted Use of PFAS

Green Building Law Update

There is an express ‘get out of jail free’ provision for Baltimore-Washington International Airport (but not for other civilian or military airports, because they did not know to ask to be exempted?), There is PFAS fire-fighting foam in use at most if not all 38 civilian airports in Maryland.

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Big Data, BIM, Cloud Computing, and Efficient Life-cycle Management of the Built Environment

Building Information Management

“Big data” — the ability to acquire, process and sort vast quantities of information for timely decision support is critical to the efficient life-cycle management of the built environment. federal departments/agencies, as well as state/county/local governments, colleges/universities, healthcare, and airports/transportation.

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Arc is Electrifying Green Building

Green Building Law Update

Already approaching a Billion square of projects not only in the United States but also from India to Sweden and Israel to Bhutan, if you are not familiar with the Arc platform, that helps a building owner measure performance and benchmark against others, you are missing out on what is transmogrifying the built environment.

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PFOA Contamination is Found in 49 States

Green Building Law Update

PFOAs have been manufactured and used in a variety of industries around the globe, including in the United States since the 1940s and have been the most extensively produced and studied of these chemicals. This technology may in the future make treatability and actually removing PFOA from the environment realistic.

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Life-cycle management of the built environment – To BIM or Not to BIM?

Building Information Management

BIM, building information modeling, is defined as the life-cycle management of the built environment supported by digital technology. Our technology is currently serving over 85% of United States Air Force bases and rapidly growing numbers of other DOD and non-DOD (United States Army Corps of Engineers, Army, GSA, Homeland Security, VA.)