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Structural engineering solutions for office-to-residential conversion

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Structural engineering solutions for office-to-residential conversion 0 qpurcell Thu, 09/28/2023 - 10:37 Office Buildings IMEG's Edwin Dean, Joe Gulden, and Doug Sweeney, share seven key focuses for structural engineers when planning office-to-residential conversions. faces a housing deficit of 3.8 million units.

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First look: Jeanne Gang reinterprets San Francisco Bay windows in new skyscraper scheme

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Renderings show that the planned residential tower will be a tier of bay windows placed slightly askew on top of each other, resulting in a flowing, twisting-effect. Body Image: read more.

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Jeanne Gang reinterprets San Francisco Bay windows in new project design

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Yesterday San Francisco’s newest tower proposal was unveiled, the San Francisco Chronicle reports, and it will be a 400-foot tower designed by Gang. Renderings show that the planned residential tower will be a tier of bay windows placed slightly askew on top of each other, resulting in a flowing, twist-effect.

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South Miami Poised to Mandate Solar Panels

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The ordinance is modeled after similar laws enacted in the California municipalities of Lancaster, Sebastopol, and Santa Monica, and the City of San Francisco. There was opposition to this mandate expressed at the City Commission session, including real concern this will pressure affordable housing.

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San Francisco voters approve tougher affordability requirement on new housing development

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San Francisco voters recently approved a ballot measure that will require residential developments of 25 units or more to include 25% affordable units, up from the current requirement of 12%.

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Micro-units: Good for the city? Good for citizens?

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As economically booming cities such as Boston, New York, San Francisco and London struggle with housing their growing populations, there is an increasing fixation on the micro-unit in the name of increasing residential provision.

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The Evolution of Multifamily: Residential Innovation to Transform the Market

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With the increase in soft costs to development (which are the 2nd highest in the nation in San Francisco), shortage in skilled labor, and drawn out permitting process, the building industry is wondering what’s going to have to give to make progress on the looming challenge of solving the housing crisis. The Rise of Co-Living.