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Construction Employment Increases In 226 Of 358 Metro Areas Between October 2022 & 2023 As Labor Shortages Keep Firms From Hiring More

Construction Employment Increases In 226 Of 358 Metro Areas Between October 2022 & 2023 As Labor Shortages Keep Firms From Hiring More

Posted: November 30, 2023 | Tradewinds

New York City and Baton Rouge, La. Register the Largest Number and Percent of Job Gains over 12 Months; Houston-The Woodlands-Sugar Land, Texas and Kankakee, Ill. Experience Worst Year-over-Year Losses

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Birdair’s TensoSky® ETFE Film to Add Style to Skylights at University Rec Center

Birdair’s TensoSky® ETFE Film to Add Style to Skylights at University Rec Center

Posted: November 30, 2023 | Tradewinds

Birdair, Inc., the world’s leading specialty contractor for custom tensile membrane structures for over 65 years, is bringing a unique blend of beauty and protection to Michigan State University’s (MSU) new Student Recreation and Wellness Center with its next-generation TensoSky® ETFE film. Approximately 12,300 square feet of Birdair’s ETFE film will be used along with support steel to form 33 three-layer cushions at the multi-use facility, to infill three atrium skylights.

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COTE Award Winning UC San Diego’s Living Learning Neighborhood Taps Solarban® 70 Glass for Daylighting, Views and Occupant Comfort

COTE Award Winning UC San Diego’s Living Learning Neighborhood Taps Solarban® 70 Glass for Daylighting, Views and Occupant Comfort

Posted: November 30, 2023 | Tradewinds

Earning a prestigious American Institute of Architects (AIA) COTE® Top Ten Award, the North Torrey Pines Living and Learning Neighborhood’s (NTPLLN) 915,500 sq. ft. campus at the University of California, San Diego is daylit with Solarban® 70 glass from Vitro Architectural Glass.

“To improve the quality and character of UC San Diego housing, there was a strong desire to maximize exterior glazing to provide ideal views and natural light,” explains Dr. Tommy Zakrzewski, principal and director, Building Engineering Physics, HKS, whose firm worked with Safdie Rabines Architects to design UC San Diego’s largest construction project in the history of the school.

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Material Disruption: Mass Timber in the Lone Star State

Material Disruption: Mass Timber in the Lone Star State

Posted: November 27, 2023 | Tradewinds

Originally developed in Europe in the 1990s, cross-laminated timber consists of several layers of lumber board that are stacked at right angles to one another and glued face-to-face to form large-format structural panels up to 10 feet wide, 60 feet long, and 12 inches thick. This cross-lamination yields exceptionally strong and dimensionally stable products with bi-directional load-bearing capacity, particularly suitable for floors, walls, and roofs in multistory applications.

CLT panels have opened up the potential for residential and commercial mid- and high-rise buildings with primary structural systems that are made almost entirely of timber. By combining these planar panels with glulam beams and columns, this novel approach competes with conventional building systems for structural performance. Most important, building with mass timber takes advantage of one of the greatest benefits of wood: its ability to store, or sequester, significant amounts of atmospheric carbon.

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New Home Sales Weaken in October

New Home Sales Weaken in October

Posted: November 27, 2023 | Tradewinds

Elevated mortgage rates that averaged 7.62% in October per Freddie Mac, the highest rate since 2000, depressed buyer demand and pushed down new home sales in October. 

Sales of newly built, single-family homes in October fell 5.6% to a 679,000 seasonally adjusted annual rate, following a notable downward revision in September, according to newly released data by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development and the U.S. Census Bureau. The pace of new home sales in October was up 17.7% from a year ago.

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