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San Francisco’s Presidio park project designed ‘by the people, for the people’

September 6, 2022
San Francisco’s Presidio Tunnel Tops project—a 14-acre (5.67 ha) park built on top of Presidio Parkway tunnels leading to Golden Gate Bridge—leaned heavily on public input for a community-minded transformation.
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Hotel memorializes Texas preservationist Albert Keidel

September 6, 2022
Architectural firm, Clayton Korte, and hospitality management company, New Waterloo, have designed Albert Hotel in Fredericksburg, Texas, to pay tribute to the legendary Texan preservationist architect Albert Keidel.
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NYC Dept. of Buildings lacks in construction site safety action: report

September 6, 2022
An audit released by New York State Comptroller Thomas P. DiNapoli found NYC Department of Buildings (DOB) needs to be more aggressive in its oversight, inspections, and use of enforcement powers to ensure violations are corrected, in helping prevent construction-related accidents, injuries and fatalities.
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University of Alabama team wins national PCI design competition with concrete beam

September 6, 2022
A team from University of Alabama has won the Precast/Prestressed Concrete Institute (PCI)’s 2022 Engineering Design Competition, also known as the Big Beam competition.
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Director at Indiana architecture school blames poor urban planning for climate change

September 6, 2022
Professor Marianne Cusato from Notre Dame University School of Architecture, who is leading the effort to revitalize Indiana’s South Bend Farmers Market district, has identified thoughtless urban planning to be the “disease” responsible for climate change, calling for a shift in the discipline.
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Article on specifying resinous flooring in resilient flooring ebook

August 30, 2022
Resinous flooring, also known as fluid-applied or poured-in-place flooring, is common in industrial and commercial environments. Its properties allow for a smooth, non-porous, easily cleanable surface that cannot be achieved with any materials that have grout or seams.
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Golf association’s Texas HQ goes green with local material use

August 30, 2022
Adolfson & Peterson Construction (AP) utilized indigenous Texan Lueders limestone to reduce transport-related emissions in constructing the 9,906 m2 (106,622-sf) headquarters of The Professional Golfers' Association (PGA) of America in Frisco, Texas.
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Podcast about history-shaping women architects receives $100,000 grant

August 30, 2022
The Beverly Willis Architecture Foundation (BWAF) has received $100,000 from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) for a new podcast series, called New Angle: Voice, featuring some of America’s most influential women from architecture and design history.
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Construction giant paves the way for net-zero asphalt surfaces

August 30, 2022
One of the 25 largest construction companies in the U.S., Granite Construction Inc. has joined the National Asphalt Pavement Association (NAPA)’s The Road Forward initiative to build net-zero asphalt pavements by 2050.
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Salt Lake City mixed-use project’s massing responds to site challenges

August 30, 2022
While designing Mya, a mixed-use development in Salt Lake City, Utah, architect EskewDumezRipple had to adapt and integrate three different facades serving different purposes to respond to an odd-shaped lot.
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