Thanks to the pandemic-imposed urgency to swiftly ramp up, expand and set up new health infrastructure in the race to outrun the viral mutations, healthcare professionals, architects and planners are investigating adaptive reuse as an alternative approach to rampantly building more infrastructure. In the past few decades, we have witnessed the emergence of new buildings …
Dwelling Place wants to build 42 single-family starter homes in Garfield Park near property that was formerly home to St. Joseph Seminary. (Rendering provided by Dwelling Place) GRAND RAPIDS, MI — A proposal by Dwelling Place to build 42 single family homes for low- to moderate-income residents in Grand Rapids’ Garfield Park neighborhood is moving …
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A $3 million renovation of the “enchilada red” Central Library downtown has started. The funding for improvements to the first, third and sixth floors comes from voter approval of the City of San Antonio’s 2017-2022 Bond Program. “Our services extend far beyond the walls of our libraries, but our facilities are the home base,” said …
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First published in the Dec. 18 print issue of the Burbank Leader. The Burbank City Council this week moved toward raising the fees charged for new development, a change that would boost funding for public improvements.Burbank has not updated its development impact fees — or DIFs — since 1993, though they rise annually with the …
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Bright lines of yellow builders’ string, rolls of primary-colored packing tape, flat-head screws tagged with tiny strips of pastel-toned paper: Anne Tallentire’s sculptural materials can be both rudimentary—practical nonprecious items, often associated with different stages of an architectural process, from preliminary drawing to actual on-site construction—and, in their unorthodox configurations, tidily decorative. Her artworks involve …
Construction was one of the industries considered essential during the pandemic shutdown in spring 2020. That included architects and engineers, who social distanced, worked remotely and wore masks, but kept working. That doesn’t mean the pandemic didn’t affect these industries. Both fields were already changing when COVID hit. Like it did for many industries, the …
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Lifelong Alaskan and Fairbanks resident, Sigvald John Strandberg, Sr., 78, died of natural causes on November 16, 2021, at Fairbanks Memorial Hospital. Mr. Strandberg was born January 29, 1943, in Anchorage, the second of four sons to Odin and Marie (Nordstrand) Strandberg, an Alaskan Mining family. During summers, Sig grew up at the Strandberg family …
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Employee fatalities in the workplace are one of the worst situations employers can encounter while running a business. In just Fiscal Year 2019 alone, over 5,000 workers died on the job, averaging out to more than 100 fatalities per week, or fifteen cases per day. To combat these stark numbers and better protect employees on …
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According to new proposals from developers Harworth, the site of Skelton Grange Power Station could soon become nearly 75,000 square metres of “industrial, storage or distribution” space. This would comprise of five separate buildings over a 20 hectare site. The area is home to the former coal-fired power station which was demolished in the 1990s …
Last year’s disastrous weather could spell higher premiums for home insurance in 2022. Yet a few climate-related moves taken now may help limit your odds of a rate hike this year, as well as improve the experience of making a claim on your policy after a “weather event.” The high cost of settling claims for …