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Every month we like to choose a project to feature. This month, we’ve chosen Bloxham School, Stonehill House.   Stonehill House was nominated for ‘Project of the Year’ at OxPropFest Awards 2023.   The thriving independent coeducation school required a solution that would enable the school to achieve 40 boarding places, as well as a new common room and tutor room, to facilitate growth of the school. *Project challenge*   There are challenges to overcome with every project, and that is what makes each one unique and interesting to work on. Those challenges are one of the reasons we chose Bloxham School as our Project of the Month.   Key considerations: -        Located in a conservation area -        Grade II listed building -        Limited vehicular access -        Structural challenges -        Proximity to residential properties   Take a look at the journey and how the school achieved its vision: https://lnkd.in/eP75NzxE   #featuredproject #planning #bloxham #oxfordshire #planningpermission #school #conservationarea #listedbuilding Image credit: Clews Architects and Andy Marshall, Fotofacade

The benefit of social value being part of procurement and contracts is tangible and benefitting our children and young people.

Social Value needn’t be difficult! Just opening up your doors to our children and young people and educating them on your line of business will not only deliver your public procurement Social Value obligations, it might even sow some seeds for your industry’s future workforce! #EAProcure #SocialValueInAction

Q: Hey Re:Vision, what are you doing for Earth Day? A: Hi! Thanks for asking! We’re celebrating the world’s FIRST Core Living Building Certified project at Muhlenberg College and we’re really excited about it! International Living Future Institute created the Core Living Building Certification using 10 non-negotiables from the Living Building Challenge as the baseline to make our communities good for everyone. We’re really proud of the work of the entire team on this project, which met certification requirements after demonstrating 12 months of energy and water use that were above requirements.   We think Core Living Building certification is a game-changer for everyone who owns, designs, or constructs building projects. It’s a holistic look at what our building projects should be doing as an entry to regenerative practice, where our work can exist in balance – or as a benefit – to the natural, built, and social communities around it.   Oh, and most of us biked, carpooled, took transit, or walked to work today.   #AuthenticSustainability #CoreLivingBuildingCertified #EveryDayIsEarthDay #FirstInTheWorld Muhlenberg College The Whiting-Turner Contracting Company BSEG, LLC Thriven Design Keystone Consulting Engineers, Inc. O'Donnell & Naccarato ThinkGreen LLC Cloud Gehshan Design

🗞️ News: Galliford Try wins Scottish school work Galliford Try will unveil a year-end trading update next month after the firm this morning said it had won a £69m school scheme in Scotland. The listed contractor will unveil its year-end update on 11 July for the 12 months ending 30 June. Last month, the firm said it was targeting an industry-beating 4% margin by 2030 and expected turnover to jump by £800m to £2.2bn under its 2030 growth strategy. Source: Building Magazine #BuildingServices #BuildingDesign #BuildingEngineering #CIBSE #BuildingServicesRecruitment #MEP #MEPEngineering #MEPEngineer #Rics #PropertyDesign #architecture #Construction #Urban #Design #Engineering #BuildingPerformance #fire #Sustainability #VT #VerticalTransportation #Fire #FireEngineering #RealEstate #HouseBuilding #London #MEPDesign #CIOB #Property #TheBuildingServicesPodcast #BuildingPodcast #BuildingServicesBlog

Come listen as we talk about 3 big goals we set for this one, and how we are tracking toward meeting them. #offsiteconstruction #concepthome

The future is now – Bold ideas for a better future. With the following quotes in mind, Prof. @Chris Knapp facilitated the last session of the day: “The best way to predict the future is to design it.” “Being less bad is still no good.” Seven presenters shared their one idea to make it happen: – Jeremy McLeod (BREATHE ARCHITECTURE LIMITED) – Form follows finance. – Daniel Fink (Republica) – The real salvation is going to come from the user. – Murray Ellen (PT Blink) – Making homes attainable and affordable to young people. – Tyler Pullen (Terner Labs) – More international study tours builds need and momentum. – Giulia Scagliotti (Stanford University) – More collaboration between different stakeholders. – Justine Prain (Energiesprong UK) – Build a transportable home so people and builders can touch and see what a comfortable home is like. – Dr Sarah Breen Lovett (University of Newcastle) – Leverage the self-build of the construction industry. #BetterBuildingsFaster #MMC #ModernMethodsofConstruction #IndustrialisedConstruction #MakingItHappen

PUSHING THE ENVELOPE I would like to pile on the congratulations to the project team, but with a Building Science twist: Not only did they receive the 2024 MCA Choice Award, they also achieved a Whole Building Air Tightness test result of 0.015CFM50/SF!!! For a point of reference, the Phuis airtightness requirement is 0.060 CFM50/SF. - 285,000 square feet building footprint - 423,000 square feet exterior enclosure surface area If you want the equivalent value at 75pascals, the power law conversion would be 0.019CFM75/SF. If you’re stuck in your ways and want to turn this into a less sensible metric, the average building height of 34 feet would give you 0.04ACH50 Multipoint table and chart in the comments below. Cuningham DSGW Architecture Kraus-Anderson #KABuilds #BuildingScience #BuildingEnvelope

NYC DDC - DBIA Liberty Region - New York Build Expo -- Great job this week by NYC DDC's Jade Bailey, Director of the Design-Build Unit, along with NYCHA, MTA, and the New York Power Authority with amazing audience support from Commissioner Foley, Assistant Commissioner Yvi McEvilly, Kayla Holmes, and NYC Parks' Laura Pavilonis. It is exciting to see how critical public work improvement projects are benefiting from having the right project delivery tool. Since NYS gave the City the authority to use this tool, NYC DDC has been selecting critical and complicated projects for this tool and the results are coming in. Design-build gives NYC DDC the right project delivery tool to finish projects faster and more efficiently. Of course, the real winners are the residents and businesses. The days of open construction projects dragging on for years are ending as this project delivery tool is utilized. If the City gets the authorization from NYS in 2024 to also use Progressive Design-build and CM-Build, then the paradigm for how projects are executed will change dramatically and all in favor of the residents and businesses. Exciting times for NYC DDC and everyone that will use the completed buildings or roadways

👷♂️ Big things are happening at P McVey Building Systems this week! Our team is hard at work, with modular buildings rolling out of the factory all day long. Watch the P McVey team in action - it's always exciting to see these structures come to life! 🏗️🚛 #PMcVeyBuildingSystems #ModularConstruction #TeamInAction #InnovationOnTheMove