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Laing O’Rourke wins £920m animal health super-lab job

Construction Enquirer

The job, awarded by the Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs, will see O’Rourke take the project, consisting of two main buildings, through detailed design and construction. Around 1,000 staff work at the site, which has been a base for animal health science for over a century.

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Segro to invest £2bn on net-zero warehouses in Midlands

Construction Enquirer

Logistics and industrial park developer SEGRO has committed to invest £2bn over the coming decade to deliver next-generation, net-zero warehouse facilities in the West Midlands. sq ft of industrial buildings and warehouses. The firm aims to deliver 13.5m The investment will be focused on a mix of warehousing types across the region.

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Marine Terminal Planned for Site of Former New York City Floating Jail

ENR Construction

Rendering courtesy New York City Economic Development Corp. Opened in 1992 as a floating jail and decommissioned in 2023 as part of the plan to close the city’s outdated jails and build modern borough-based facilities , the Vernon C. This will streamline the process and add resiliency.” The Economic Development Corp.

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A Continued Push: Digitalization & Environmental Permitting

Civil + Structural Engineer

Ecobot quickly established a strong track record of reliability—both as a secure software and as a robust and accurate tool that supports the regulated community in advancing critical infrastructure projects more swiftly, and enabling large-scale environmental data management beyond the permit.

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Bentley Systems: Open Data Ecosystems to Advance Infrastructure Engineering

Civil + Structural Engineer

Cumins explained that infrastructure sectors can no longer afford to work in silos, with data locked away in proprietary systems. Enhancing geospatial capabilities The value of open data ecosystems is demonstrated through Bentley’s partnership with Google , announced at the Year in Infrastructure.

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3D Printing Cement Alternative Boasts 92% Fewer Emissions

The Pro Builder

Eco Material Technologies , a Utah-based producer of sustainable cement alternatives, and Hive 3D , a Texas-based automated construction company, have partnered to build five vacation rentals in Round Top. Soon, some of those visitors will be able to stay in what’s being billed as the world’s first near-zero-carbon, 3D-printed homes.

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To Meet Current Challenges and Future Needs, We Need to Reinvent Home Building

The Pro Builder

To Meet Current Challenges and Future Needs, We Need to Reinvent Home Building ibush Sat, 08/19/2023 - 08:15 The pandemic rocked traditional rules and roles for work and home and reset expectations. RELATED The Need for Resilient Construction Is Real. And the $1.2 And the $1.2 million (about $1.6 Meanwhile, the U.K.