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A New Era of Equity Is Blowing In

ENR Construction

US offshore wind energy projects aim to deliver a 21st-century model of environmental and economic justice in building a new American industry.

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US Offshore Wind Energy: A New Era of Equity Is Blowing In

ENR Construction

Projects aim to deliver a 21st-century model of environmental and economic justice in building a new American industry.

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Built to Rent Is Booming, But Operational Challenges Loom for This Overheated Housing Sector

Pro Builder

Major players, including large private equity firms, investment funds, and public home builders, are all entering the space with lofty goals. But until recently, most investors failed to recognize the legitimacy of another major single-family rental business model: newly built rental homes set within contiguous master planned communities.

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In pursuit of acoustical equity

Construction Specifier

Whether an organization wants their office to be occupied fulltime post-pandemic or to serve as a critical part of a hybrid working model, it has the potential to act as a ‘ great equalizer ’—a shared facility that is specifically designed to support employees’ work and overall well-being. The sound that actually exists.

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Contractors May Benefit by Taking Equity in the Project They are Constructing

Construction and Infrastructure Law

Contractors may benefit in making a small equity investment in the projects they construct. In the past, it was not unusual for construction companies to make small equity investments in the projects they worked on. For example, a construction company building a power plant would take a 5% equity interest in the project.

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Five Predictions for Commercial Construction Trends in 2012

HardHatChat

We have been approached a couple of times to become an equity partner in a project in order to win that construction job. We are not developers, so that doesn’t work with our business model. But, that doesn’t mean you won’t see other commercial general contractors cough up cash to win a job.

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Margaret Whelan on How Capital Is Fueling Innovation

Pro Builder

Margaret Whelan: Permanent capital is what it suggests, long-term capital that is typically achieved through the public equity markets—in contrast to private equity–type capital, which is typically returned to the investor in eight years. . The beauty of the Entekra type model is they do it for everybody.