In the 1970s, as we started to tighten building envelopes in response to energy efficiency demands, tenants started to report nonspecific symptoms—headaches, dizziness, nausea, eye, nose, or throat irritation, allergies, increased asthma attacks, and even personality changes. The media called...
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As COVID-19 cases in the US continued to climb earlier this year, construction firms in hot spots like New York City knew it was only a matter of time before jobsites were shut down. But for some contractors, that call...
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COVID-19 impacted all facets of construction. But perhaps the first area to feel the effects was the supply chain and the preconstruction work associated with it. Here David Hamilton, vice president of purchasing at Structure Tone, explains this ripple effect...
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"In our decades of doing business, we thought we’d seen just about everything—from natural disasters to recessions, to terrorist attacks. But COVID-19 has been like nothing we’ve seen before. Innovation has been critical to helping us, our clients, and our...
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As cities across the globe implemented stay-at-home orders and limited public activities, the construction industry (among many others) was contending with a slew of unknowns. Do we need to shut down our jobsites? Where do we find PPE? How do...
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