ENR Construction

JULY 29, 2024

Designing and building the first mass timber commercial office building in the Philadelphia metropolitan area required intense coordination to combine mass timber with multiple structural systems.

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BD+C

SEPTEMBER 5, 2021

Last Tuesday, the Northeast Community Propel Academy, a K-8 school with the capacity for 1,660 students, opened In Philadelphia.

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ENR Construction

AUGUST 8, 2024

A six-week camp in Philadelphia is exposing potential female craft professionals to the skills needed and benefits gained of working in construction.

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BD+C

MAY 21, 2014

In a special exhibit to open this summer, the Philadelphia Museum of Art will display the comprehensive plan that Frank Gehry has created for the renovation and expansion of its home on the Benjamin Franklin Parkway. Body Image: read more.

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ENR Construction

AUGUST 8, 2024

A six-week camp in Philadelphia is exposing girls to the trades.

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Construction Dive

JANUARY 23, 2024

The aging William H. Gray III 30th Street Station is one of the busiest intercity passenger railroad facilities in the U.S.

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Philadelphia Railroad 142

ENR Construction

DECEMBER 15, 2020

ENR MidAtlantic Specialty Firm of the Year Philadelphia D&M finds success through innovation and experimentation.

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ENR Construction

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

The funding will support Philadelphia's 25-year water revitalization plan, which calls for lead service line replacement and upgrades to water treatment plants.

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Business Facilities

MARCH 24, 2021

Development Plan Launched At Philadelphia Navy Yard at BusinessFacilities.com. Upon completion of the $400M phase one, PIDC and Ensemble/Mosaic will have created one million square feet of life sciences space.

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Construction Equipment

JUNE 16, 2020

The 40,000-square-foot facility is 35 miles outside of Philadelphia, on three acres. “We Able Equipment Rental opened a new location in West Chester, Pennsylvania, combining its Norristown and Honey Brook facilities. We researched and toured several properties in the area before committing to the…

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Philadelphia Equipment Pennsylvania 68

BD+C

DECEMBER 18, 2020

The 92-year-old Kensington Trust Company Building in Philadelphia is a community landmark. But in recent years, this limestone edifice—vacant since 2015, after its last tenant, Wells Fargo, left—had come to symbolize a poor and crime-ridden neighborhood’s despair.

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Construction Dive

MAY 19, 2020

Managers at LOTT Restaurant Construction have refined timelines, employed virtual walkthroughs and researched practices from hospital construction to help the firm and clients evolve in a changing business environment.

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Constructonomics

AUGUST 9, 2010

Proposals are being collected on a 250,000 square foot mixed use historical redevelopment in Center City Philadelaphia. They are seeking LEED certification on the job while providing hotel, retail, and museum space. The project is funded by the City but they are hiring a developer to propose a plan and oversee the project.

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Constructonomics

AUGUST 1, 2011

Now it seems like there’s a casino in every town in the country with Philadelphia being the largest major city to have one. I recently read that the new Sugarhouse Casino in Philadelphia projects a profit margin of 20%. In fact, there are 35 states in the US that have hotel casinos. Well, it’s very simple.

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BD+C

FEBRUARY 18, 2014

The Philadelphia Art Commission has weighed in somewhat unfavorably on Robert A.M. Stern''s design for the Museum of the American Revolution in Philadelphia.

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ENR Construction

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

The 2020 ENR MidAtlantic Specialty Contractor of the Year is Philadelphia D&M.

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Construction Dive

JANUARY 2, 2019

The general contractor is a "natural fit" for the 1.5 million square foot development that is expected to create about 3,000 construction jobs, an official said.

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Construction Dive

JULY 20, 2023

The free camp tours jobsites in the city, provides safety orientation and advertises the perks of a career in the trades.

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Philadelphia Safety 118

Constructonomics

MARCH 18, 2014

Basically, they were some big players in the Philadelphia Real Estate scene and, perhaps not very surprisingly, they did not appear to disagree on too much. It was noted that Philadelphia has almost the same construction costs as New York but commands nearly half the rent.

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Construction Dive

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

The bank is looking to expand in areas such as Boston, Charlotte, Minneapolis, Philadelphia and Washington, D.C. — but aims to close another 30 First Republic locations.

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BD+C

JANUARY 21, 2014

Comcast Corporation announced last week its plan to build a second skyscraper in Philadelphia, adjacent to its current global headquarters, the 58-story, 973-foot Comcast Center.

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Constructonomics

NOVEMBER 5, 2013

The Philadelphia chapter of the Associated Builders and Contractors met to tour the building and observe a demonstration of the Skyspace designed by contemporary light artist James Turrell. And furthermore, why do these photos have a blue or red tint to them?

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Construction Dive

DECEMBER 3, 2018

The Cordish Cos.' ' plan could see the Live! Hotel and Casino in Pennsylvania open for business before the end of 2020.

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Construction Dive

JANUARY 17, 2023

Chicago and Philadelphia’s reciprocal arrangement for disadvantaged businesses could become a national model, organizers say.

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Pro Builder

MARCH 31, 2023

Rebuild Philadelphia Introduces New Training Program ldeakins Fri, 03/31/2023 - 10:09 Rebuild Philadelphia has added a new Carpentry Academy to its Workforce Development program that seeks to bridge the construction equity gap Rebuild Philadelphia has recently implemented a Carpentry Academy as a stem of the Workforce Development program.

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Construction Dive

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

Multiple mechanic's liens were filed on the downtown high-rise project, alleging general contractor L.F. Driscoll, affiliates of developer Liberty Property Trust and others withheld payment.

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Construction Dive

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

The charges against Local 98 IBEW union leader John Dougherty and others range from bribery to fraud, forcing some to consider how much undue influence the city's unions have over the local industry.

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Philadelphia Industrial Union Construction 95

Construction Dive

JULY 10, 2019

Philadelphia's Penn Medicine Pavilion is one of the largest projects on the East Coast to use an integrated project delivery method.

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Fabrication Philadelphia 122

Business Facilities

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

The 175,000-square-foot Global Innovation Center at the Philadelphia Navy Yard is the world's largest research & development center dedicated to coatings and color. Read: Axalta Opens R&D Center In Philadelphia at BusinessFacilities.com.

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BD+C

AUGUST 25, 2019

500 Walnut is a 26-story luxury condo building with 35 residences whose selling prices average $5 million, the highest in Philadelphia to date, according to the building’s developer Scannapieco Development Corporation (SDC).

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Pro Builder

APRIL 28, 2023

The $6 million, 47-unit new construction permanent housing community will serve as a template for future modular housing projects serving seniors, veterans, children aging out of foster care, abuse survivors, and refugees, the foundation said in a recent press release. Read more Modular Homes Affordability Community Development Modular Homes

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Viewpoint Construction Technology

JANUARY 23, 2019

The symposiums are being held in San Francisco , Phoenix , Philadelphia and Tyson’s Corner, Virginia. Philadelphia. Opportunities for tax incentives, partnerships and other programs. Technologies for streamlining construction tax processes. And much more! Sign Up Now to Reserve Your Seat. Sign Up Now to Reserve Your Seat.

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BD+C

APRIL 25, 2018

The Cambria Hotel & Suites on South Broad Street is now open for business in Center City, Philadelphia. The 15-story, 174,000-sf hotel brings 223 guest rooms to the Pennsylvania city.

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Constructonomics

SEPTEMBER 12, 2011

My Uncle, who has spent his whole life living within the city limits of Philadelphia, used to call the Philadelphia tap water “Schuylkill Punch” That nickname didn’t always give me warm and fuzzies about drinking the Philly tap water. It also creates conditions that are unsuitable for wildlife. .

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BD+C

AUGUST 14, 2018

1, its largest city, Philadelphia, has opted to adopt the newer 2018 IECC standard. Philadelphia is one of the first jurisdictions to move to the latest code. While the state of Pennsylvania will adopt the 2015 IECC energy efficiency building code on Oct. The new state code represents at least a 28% efficiency improvement.

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Pro Builder

MAY 5, 2023

Two groups of high school juniors and seniors from the Maritime Charter Academy High School in Philadelphia; and one group from the Sequoia Alternative Program, Lenape Regional School District, in New Jersey, have participated in Workshop on the Water once a week for 2 to 3 hours at a time.

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BD+C

OCTOBER 17, 2018

After months of negotiation between residential builders and the plumbers union, Philadelphia is poised to allow the use of plastic pipes in high-rise residential construction. A memorandum of understanding hammered out by the Plumbing Advisory Board will be incorporated into the new building code next year.

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