Pulse: Project News for the Week of June 8, 2020

Spectacle Entertainment is planning to construct the Rocksino Casino on a 25-acre site at the intersection of Bill Farr Drive and Joe Fox Street in Terre Haute.

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Construction Economics for June 8, 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 Hydrodemolition Machine Aims to Cut the Noise

Swedish-based Aquajet has launched the Ecosilence 3.0, an updated power pack for its hydrodemolition robots that increases the overall power, with options to significantly lower ambient noise levels. 

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Construction Economics for June 1, 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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Tech Giants Team Up to Develop 'Building Transparency'

In an unprecedented collaboration, Amazon, Facebook, Google, Microsoft and Salesforce, along with floor covering supplier Interface, are showing their collective commitment to embodied carbon reduction by joining the board of Building Transparency—a nonprofit formed recently to further develop a free-to-use digital tool for estimating embodied carbon in building construction, called the Embodied Carbon in Construction Calculator.

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