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Conservationists are hailing the passage last week by the U.S. House of Representatives of the Bird-Safe Buildings Act. 

HOK recently designed the $230-million, phased renovation of Talking Stick Resort Arena in Phoenix.

There is good news for boosters of a modular system of tied dual-plate walls field-filled with concrete—dubbed SpeedCore for its potential to slash superstructure construction time compared to steel frames with reinforced concrete cores.

If all goes according to plan, construction of Atlassian headquarters could begin early next year on a 40-story hybrid timber-and-structural-steel office building in Sydney, Australia

Mega-bill would join $494-billion highway-transit-rail measure with tens of billions for water, airports, schools and other sectors.

Designers, contractor in Portland, Ore., invest in the first resilient ‘Living’ office building

Creators of the free-to-use Embodied Carbon in Construction Calculator have added several features since the tool’s release last November. 

In an unprecedented collaboration, Amazon, Facebook, Google, Microsoft and Salesforce, along with floor covering supplier Interface are showing their collective commitment to embodied carbon reduction by joining the board of Building Transparency—a nonprofit formed recently to further develop a free-to-use digital tool for estimating embodied carbon in building construction, called the Embodied Carbon in Construction Calculator.

The International Living Future Institute’s drive to increase participation in its sustainable-building programs is gaining momentum.