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2024 Timber-Strong Design Build Competition: Small Buildings, Big Educational Opportunities

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2024 Timber-Strong Design Build Competition: Small Buildings, Big Educational Opportunities 1 kcichowicz Thu, 06/20/2024 - 12:14 Student-led teams have 90 minutes to erect attractive, durable, engineered wood structures. This year’s winners included teams from Michigan, Indiana, Florida, Colorado, Utah, Texas, California and Puerto Rico.

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Excellence in Sustainability, Award of Merit, Higher Ed/Research: University of California, Riverside School of Medicine Education Building II

ENR Construction

million Education Building II (EDII) is a strategically located, highly visible structure on campus that creates a new home for the medical school. Featuring a wide range of team-based student learning spaces, social spaces and departmental offices for faculty and staff, the $87.4-million

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Swinerton names new Silicon Valley lead

Construction Dive

California construction vet Jennifer Lauritzen will head the division that focuses on healthcare, tech and education builds, including at Stanford University.

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How This California Nonprofit Developer Does Affordable Communities

Pro Builder

How This California Nonprofit Developer Does Affordable Communities. Visionary Home Builders of California Inc developed its first affordable housing community in 1983. A key aspect for Visionary’s developments are its educational offerings and robust amenities. cbroderick. Tue, 03/02/2021 - 09:21.

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3ndless 3arth 3covillage in Calaveras County, California

Natural Building

3ndless 3arth 3covillage describes itself as “a regenerative community focused on land restoration, permaculture, natural building, holistic health, and eco-conscious education.” Building is central to their mission, with natural building workshops being a primary source of community collaboration and trade education.

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Award of Merit, Higher Education/Research: California State University, Northridge (CSUN) Maple Hall

ENR Construction

Serving as a gateway to the campus, the 62,000-sq-ft, $46.8-million million Maple Hall is designed around a three-story atrium.

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The role of higher education housing in fighting COVID-19

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Efforts to expand healthcare capacity are coming from all corners: the USNS Comfort is docked in NY; the USNS Mercy is docked in CA; and the USACE is spearheading efforts in New York City and California to convert empty hotel rooms and student housing facilities into overflow hospital rooms.