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Bid race to finish Tolent’s Vaux job in Sunderland

Construction Enquirer

It is estimated the project will cost around £24m to complete. After Carillion’s collapse in 2018, Tolent came on board later that year to take forward initial plans to build homes project, the first of 1,000 homes planned for the area as part of an initiative to double the number of people living in the city centre.

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£600m NHS Wales framework out to tender

Construction Enquirer

Health chiefs are looking to appoint four main supply chain contract partners for an estimated £600m pipeline of work over four years. It came into use back in April 2018 covering work contracts exceeding £4m and will expire in April 2024.

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Area Cost Factors – Not a viable for Federal Construction Cost Estimating?

Job Order Contracting

Should Areas Cost Factors be used for Construction Cost Estimating? As a result, more than 40 years after the introduction of area cost factors (ACFs), the federal government is no closer to its goals of having construction cost estimates match actual construction costs, or properly adjusting for regional (location based) variances.

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Commercial Construction Industry Trends: Reflecting on the Highs and Lows of 2018

Commercial Construction Blog

A strong pipeline of senior living construction was a “high” of 2018. So before we officially ring in 2019, here is our rundown of Englewood Construction’s commercial construction trends “highs” and “lows” from 2018: High: A Sizable Senior Living Pipeline. Our Restaurant Construction Group was one of our busiest divisions in 2018.

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School rebuild plans fail the grade as crisis deepens

Construction Enquirer

It now estimates that around 700,000 pupils are learning in a school that is unsafe or requires major refurbishment. Since risks from the use of reinforced autoclaved aerated concrete were thrown into the spotlight in 2018 after a roof collapse at a school in Kent, the full extent of the problems still remains unknown.

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Higher-income renters continue to drive what’s getting built and leased in the multifamily sector

BD+C

Starts of buildings with five or more housing units rose from December 2018 through December 2019 by 74.6% to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 536,000, according to preliminary Census Bureau estimates. At the end of that period, the number of multifamily housing units under construction was up 7.3% to 177,000.

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The Inefficiencies of the Latest Energy Code

The Pro Builder

The results provided a basis for estimating energy use savings and cost effectiveness of individual measures. Annual energy use costs were developed using the U.S. Department of Energy’s BEopt simulation software and energy prices came from the U.S.