Peppa Pig Theme Park Earns DBIA Award

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Peppa Pig Theme Park, the first standalone theme park in the world dedicated solely to the cartoon pig and her friends, has earned a 2022 Design-Build Institute of America Florida Region Merit Award in the civic/assembly category. Located in Winter Haven, Florida, near LEGOLAND Florida, the theme park adds to Barton Malow’s theme park construction portfolio. It offers an immersive experience via rides, attractions and play spaces. The children’s amusement park is also autism center certified and aligned with the proper components for maintaining an autism-friendly environment. Barton Malow and The Lunz Group worked together to design and construct this … Read more

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USGBC Announces Updates to LEED v4

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The U.S. Green Building Council announced updates to the primary version of the LEED green building certification program, LEED v4, to more directly address carbon emissions and climate change. With the change, building design and construction and Interior design and construction projects will be able to demonstrate improvement in energy performance with LEED v4.1’s metric of energy cost or greenhouse gas emissions in addition to LEED v4’s original source energy metric. For the last nine years, LEED v4 has been the primary and balloted version of LEED green building certification. However, its guidelines on reducing energy demand focused first on … Read more

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MCA Announces Details, Registration for 2023 Winter Meeting

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The Metal Construction Association’s registration for its upcoming annual winter meeting is now open. The event will take place in-person Jan. 22-25 at the Hyatt Regency in Clearwater Beach Resort and Spa in Florida. The meeting is open to members and non-members. The event will cover an array of topics pertinent to the use of metal in the building envelope, plus several opportunities to network with industry leaders. The keynote speaker is Dr. Chris Kuehl. Dr. Kuehl is the managing director of Armada Corporation and serves as the company’s chief economist and is also the economic analyst for the Fabricators … Read more

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Most Construction Craft Professionals Like Their Jobs

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By Tim Taylor, P.E., Ph.D. Construction workers report higher levels of job satisfaction than all other industries combined — not just today, but through four distinct economic cycles since 1974. The data comes from the National Opinion Research Center at the University of Chicago. As little as 86% and up to 89% of people working in the construction trades like their jobs. That’s exciting news to share as we celebrate Careers in Construction Month this October. One reason for that may be the combination of pay and flexibility that this career path offers. While just over 9% of craft professionals … Read more

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Nearly Half of Survey Respondents Say Training Next-Gen Construction Workers is Industry’s Most Critical Need

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A survey released from DEWALT found more than half of U.S. contractors (55%) feel a lack of skilled workers is a barrier to growing their current business. Looking to the future, 48% believe training the next generation of trades professionals is one of the most critical needs for the success of the construction industry in 2023. Inflation, Insufficient Skilled Labor, Long Hours are Top ChallengesKeeping up with inflation (57%), finding skilled workers/being understaffed (51%) and working long hours (37%) are the top three most significant challenges that U.S. contractors surveyed are facing. When it comes to the effects those challenges … Read more

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