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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Construction Spending Ticks Up, Driven by Nonresidential Construction

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Total construction spending increased by .2% for the month of September and by 10.9% for the year as nonresidential construction activity now outpaces residential construction, according to an analysis the Associated General Contractors of America released of federal spending data. Association officials noted that gains in public sector transportation construction have lagged other fast-growing segments as officials grapple with Buy America and other new regulatory requirements. Construction spending, not adjusted for inflation, totaled $1.811 trillion at a seasonally adjusted annual rate in September, .2% above the August rate and 10.9% above the September 2021 rate. Spending on private residential construction … Read more

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McShane Completes Three-Building Industry Center

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McShane Construction Company provided design-build construction services for three speculative industrial buildings in Melrose Park, Illinois, on behalf of client LBA Logistics. Known as Industry Center at Melrose Park, the development incorporates a total of 651,617 square feet. The project team included Harris Architects. The company also performed three interior buildouts for a transportation, trucking and railroad company, a logistics and package delivery company and a portable storage and moving company. Situated on a 44-acre site, building 1 offers 130,200 square feet, 38 truck docks, two drive-in doors, 44 trailer stalls and 151 car parking spaces. Building 2 features 350,248 … Read more

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Michael Driscoll School Tops Out in Massachusetts

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Officials from the Public Schools of Brookline joined students, alumni, families, educators, neighbors and representatives from Leftfield, Jonathan Levi Architects and Gilbane Building Company to celebrate the topping out of the 155,000-sqaure-foot Michael Driscoll School in Brookline, Massachusetts. The facility will address concerns regarding a growing student population within the district, accommodating nearly 800 students in grades pre-kindergarten through eighth. In the one year since construction began, over 11,000 cubic yards of concrete has been placed and over 1,200 tons of structural steel erected as the project inches closer to completion and meeting the town’s goal of providing a creative, … Read more

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