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Boston Releases First Zero Carbon Affordable Housing Design Standards

Thornton Tomasetti, Bensonwood and Placetailor helped create new guidebook

Stephanie Loder

April 22, 2020

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Guidebook, released April 22, is set to help developers, designers, and builders that seek a zero emissions resource.

The TCF Center in Detroit Alternate Care Facility

COVID-19 and Construction

Army Corps Strategy Evolves Into Using Convention Center Spaces for COVID-19 Care

USACE learned from Midwest successes that large spaces could be adapted

Jeff Yoders

April 4, 2020

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As the Army Corps of Engineers planned and built alternate care facilities in Chicago's McCormick Place and Detroit's TCF Center, its public health strategy shifted to using convention centers for COVID-19 patients without severe symptoms rather than just for non-COVID-19 patients to take the strain off hospitals.

Boston Becomes First City to Shutter Construction Sites Because of Coronavirus

City to revisit construction ban in 14 days

Scott Van Voorhis

March 16, 2020

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Gilbane, Suffolk, Consigli among companies agreeing to shut down sites after Boston Mayor Martin J. Walsh halted all construction in Boston for two weeks due to the coronavirus pandemic.

Fiat Chrysler's Planned New Assembly Plant

Fiat Chrysler To Build $1.6-Billion Production Facility in Detroit, Says It Will Be Open by Late 2020

Construction to begin immediately on new plant on Detroit's east side

Jeff Yoders

May 24, 2019

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Fiat Chrysler said May 21 that construction will begin immediately on a new, $1.6 billion assembly plant for Jeep Grand Cherokees, a new Jeep SUV and hybrid cars on Detroit's east side.

Airports: Kansas City, O'Hare Redevelopments Show How Not to Deal With Transparency

Jeff Yoders

January 25, 2019

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The cost of the design for a new Kansas City International Airport has nearly doubled since a developer was picked in September 2017 in a very open, if chaotic, process. Now, Chicago is going with a completely closed process to pick the designer of a new terminal at O'Hare International in a process that's just as bad.