New York, Chicago among the world’s 2019 ‘Construction Mega Cities” via Construction Dive
While several US Cities appeared on a global top 50 list for construction volume, other international destinations such as Cairo (pictured here) have exponentially more volume in their pipeline.
The construction news outlets are buzzing this week with a listing of the world’s construction mega cities ranked from largest to smallest. New York City, Los Angeles, and Washington DC all scored a spot among the Top 50 construction cities in the world (all ranked based on how many billions are in their pipeline). However, their construction pipelines are considerably smaller when one compares them to large international cities such as Dubai, Mumbai, and Cairo, whose growth and construction volume was exponentially higher than any US city. Click here for the full read.
7 Construction Industry Trends to watch in 2020 via Interesting Engineering
The construction industry is evolving in many areas, but perhaps none more than technology. One of the best construction news headlines we’ve seen so far comes from Christopher McFadden at Interesting Engineering who does a great job rounding up 7 trends to keep your eye on in 2020. His overview includes some fantastic videos about augmented reality, modular construction, exoskeletons, and BIM. This is a great, in-depth look that construction tech gurus will absolutely love. Click here to check it out.
USGBC unveils vision for LEED Positive via Building Design+Construction
USGBC hopes LEED Positive will encourage a more holistic approach to LEED with more aggressive targets for carbon and energy reduction.
The US Green Building Council unveiled LEED Positive last week, a roadmap intended to focus on transitioning from LEED strategies that reduce harm buildings create to ones that actually encourage construction companies to create buildings that give more benefit than what they take, going beyond simply “net-zero”. Some of the new initiatives include creating a pathway for existing buildings to achieve LEED certification, more aggressive targets for energy and carbon reduction as well as the creation of new credit categories to make LEED more holistic in nature. Get the details here.
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