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Safdie Architects unveils design for ORCA Toronto

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By decking over the 100-meter-wide, 800-meter-long rail corridor leading to Union Station, the project looks to reclaim a 16.5-acre acres are available for an urban park with six acres that feature residential, office, hotel, retail, and transit facilities. acre site just west of CN Tower.

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Construction labour challenges: When you dig into the story, you see its complications

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Yesterday, I attended a conference largely attended by representatives of unionized contractors and craft unions. This is the world of “big construction” — mega transit and infrastructure projects, and high-rise residential condominiums. These guys aren’t renovating bathrooms in single family homes.

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Tennessee: Tyson Foods Expanding in Union City

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will invest approximately $80 million to expand operations in Union City, TN. Tyson plans to add 25,000 square feet and new production lines to its Union City plant, effectively doubling its output capabilities at the facility. Tyson’s Union City complex supplies chicken for a national foodservice customer. T yson Foods, Inc.

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Northwest 2020 Interior/Tenant Award of Merit: 503 Westlake Avenue

ENR Construction

A five-story shell in the heart of Seattle’s South Lake Union area provided a canvas for tenant renovations in a Class A commercial space for a residential real estate brokerage firm.

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Goettsch Partners Named ENR Midwest Design Firm of the Year

ENR Construction

Wacker, allowed a residential tower to be built atop Chicago Union Station and reimagined the Chicago River as something the buildings along it should celebrate, not turn their backs toward.

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Best Office/Retail/Mixed-Use: Union Tempe

ENR Construction

acre surface parking lot into a dynamic 806,081-sq-ft residential and retail development adjacent to Arizona State University. In just 19 months, the project team transformed a 3.2-acre

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Philadelphia plumbing code will now allow for more use of plastic pipes in high rises

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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.