Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library Celebrates Completion, Grand Opening

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As the United States commemorates its 250th anniversary, the Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library in Medora, North Dakota, is now complete. The milestone culminates a dedicated, multi-year partnership to create a world-class institution honoring the 26th president’s legacy of leadership and conservation. As construction manager, JE Dunn Construction helped bring the project from concept to completion through a Construction Management at Risk delivery model alongside the Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library Foundation, Snøhetta as design architect and JLG Architects as the architect of record. Construction began in June 2023 and required intensive coordination across a remote Badlands site, innovative procurement and phasing … Read more

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Slag Cement in Sustainable Concrete Award Winners Announced

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The Slag Cement Association announced the winners of its 2025 Slag Cement in Sustainable Concrete Awards. The winning projects were unveiled and celebrated during the spring ACI Concrete Convention in Rosemont, Illinois. Fourteen construction projects from across the United States were chosen to showcase the broad applications of slag cement and its impact on creating more durable and resilient concrete. These construction projects were awarded in six categories. The categories include lower carbon concrete, infrastructure, high performance, architectural, durability and innovative applications. The 2025 Slag Cement in Sustainable Concrete Construction Award Winners: Lower Carbon Concrete Meta AI-Designed Mix for Rosemount … Read more

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Sustainability’s Missing Dimension: Time

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A Case for Measuring Sustainability in Decades, Not in Moments By Thomas L. Ketron I’ve spent more than 20 years around prefabricated concrete building systems — first on the manufacturing side, now working for the broader industry on sustainability initiatives. In that time, I’ve come to believe sustainability conversations are missing a dimension. Today’s dominant framing measures a structure’s environmental performance at a single moment: embodied carbon of the completed project. It’s an important number, but it’s also the easiest one to calculate, and that has let it stand in for the whole conversation. What’s missing is time — how … Read more

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Dalaman Becomes World’s First Airport Terminal Powered Entirely by Rooftop Solar

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In 2022, Ferrovial Airports reached an agreement with Turkish Infrastructure company YDA Group to acquire a 60% stake in the company that manages the Dalaman International Airport concession located in Southwest Turkey. The project has reached a major milestone in sustainable aviation, becoming the first airport terminal globally to meet 100% of its electricity demand solely through rooftop solar installations. The completion of Phase 2 of its rooftop solar power project represents a step change in sustainable airport operations. The solar installation generates more than 20,000 MWh of renewable electricity annually, avoiding approximately 8,500 tons of CO₂ emissions each year … Read more

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BAM to Deliver Sustainable, Mixed-use Extension of Rabobank HQ Campus

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BAM and Rabobank have formed an integrated project team for the redevelopment of the Matser site adjacent to Rabobank’s headquarters in Utrecht (Netherlands). This sustainable, mixed-use extension of the Rabobank campus on Croeselaan will comprise 81,600 square meters, including 67,000 square meters of office space and associated facilities, 145 rental homes across social, mid-market and private rental segments, as well as a range of public amenities. The renewed campus will become a green destination for both the city and Rabobank. Under the agreement, Rabobank’s existing headquarters and a new office building will be integrated into a single complex. Of the … Read more

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