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Know someone between 13 and 18 who likes to invent??OR…are you someone who could mentor a student in a really fun design competition…and help him or her win a free trip to New York City to see a movie premiere??THEN, have we got a contest for you—the Gravity Design Challenge…BUT YOU HAVE TO ACT FAST!STUDENTS—You need to design and build a household space machine BY TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 10MENTORS—You need to complete a 2-hour mentoring course BY FRIDAY, AUGUST 30, and then volunteer one hour per week on line through the end of the competition period.
It looks as if HUD Secretary Shaun Donovan is going to be the closest thing to a "Resilient Building Coordination Czar" that the Sandy-affected regions and the nation will have. Today, the Hurricane Sandy Rebuilding Task Force, chaired by Donovan, released its 69 rebuilding recommendations.
Breaking news, videos and the interactive features like our Twitter feed caught the judge’s attention in the American Society of Business Publication Editors awards competition this year. ENR.com won Best B2B Website of the Year.
As promised, HUD has released the names of the 10 finalists of its Rebuild by Design competition. There are high-profile firms on the list, including OMA, Sasaki and BIG. But it's “black Friday” for Elizabeth English, the lesser-known mouse that didn’t quite roar enough to get her team—pushing amphibious buildings that float in floods—on the list.
Mila Kennett, the high-performance and resilience program manager for the Dept. of Homeland Security’s Science and Technology Directorate, has been plugging away for 10 years, developing risk management and other resilient-building tools for the design and owner community, first for FEMA and now for DHS.
An article in the New Republic has kicked up a storm, calling the LEED-Platinum-rated Bank of America Tower in Manhattan "toxic." The article makes some good points about how developers have pulled the wool over the eyes of tenants and the public by (falsely) marketing LEED-rated buildings as energy efficient. But there is more to the story than meets the eye.
istockphoto We've taken the success of the ENR RiskReview, launched last year, as a sign that you are eager for more straightforward talk about risk, disputes, guarantees, ethics, regulation and law. Two months from now, ENR will hold its first full-day Risk & Compliance Summit, September 20th, 2013, in New York
A bipartisan Senate deal will lead to votes—perhaps by the start of the August congressional break—on nominees for federal posts that are important to construction companies and unions.
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