Construction Economics for November 9, 2020

ENR’s 20-city average cost indexes, wages and materials prices. Historical data and details for ENR’s 20 cities can be found at ENR.com/economics

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New ASHRAE Headquarters' Sustainable Retrofit To Be Net-Zero Energy

ASHRAE’s move into a 66,700-sq-ft retrofit of a 1978 building near Atlanta, is complete, though design of its photovoltaic power system, which would allow the building to generate as much energy as it uses in a year, is currently in progress.

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Construction Economics for November 11, 2020

ENR’s 20-city average cost indexes, wages and materials prices. Historical data and details for ENR’s 20 cities can be found at ENR.com/economics

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NEHRP Recommendations Likely To Improve Seismic Design

Code-based earthquake engineering is on the verge of getting simpler, thanks to the National Earthquake Hazards Reduction Program’s recommendation to replace the traditional seismic hazards maps with an improved seismic hazards database. 

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SoFi Stadium Builds Out Digital Twin for Operations and Maintenance

SoFi Stadium's digital twin from Willow consolidates 3.1 million sq ft of stadium and all its moving parts into a 16GB graphical and relational model that can be accessed from an iPad and analyzed by stadium management for optimizing building operations.

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