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COVID-19 in the office: A Guide to Guides
Tearing your hair out over conflicting advice on how to handle COVID-19 in the office? Here’s a road map to help you navigate the maze of advice.
Concerns rise about toxic disinfectants in buildings
Toxicologists and healthy building advocates are raising concerns about an overemphasis on disinfectants as a silver bullet in the fight against coronavirus in indoor spaces.
Transparency builds around embodied carbon in construction materials
The push to reduce the embodied carbon from materials used in construction may finally be over-coming an enormous, longstanding hurdle.
Are COVID-19 reopening guidelines slighting building systems?
Public health guidelines are downplaying the role that building systems should play in stemming the spread of COVID-19, many architects, engineers and scientists are warning.
Salvaged materials tell a building’s best stories
Skanska’s Jimmy Mitchell explains how a long-time interest in salvage grew into a salvage-materials-gone-wild in the Kendeda Building.
10 tips on salvage materials from Jimmy Mitchell
Here are 10 keys to success for anyone interested in making salvage material a key part of a commercial construction project
Water treatment plants and solar farms need not be eyesores
Some are calling for green infrastructure spending to generate jobs. But projects that sound worthy can meet resistance when it’s time to break ground.
Pollution will return as economies reopen
The air is getting cleaner as the world confronts COVID-19. But buildup of greenhouse gas pollution continues, and global temperatures are still rising.