The Grenfell Tower fire in 2017, in which 72 people lost their lives, led to a major shift in the regulation of higher-risk buildings. The Building Safety Act (BSA) 2022 created strong ongoing duties ...
Mercer Mass Timber is releasing a new free design tool aiming to accelerate affordable mid-rise housing. BuildSpec allows architects, engineers, and developers to explore hybrid cross-laminated timber ...
This article is the second in a planned three-part series – the first, “Missing-Middle Solutions for Achieving State-Mandated Affordable Housing Requirements ...
scaled, mid-rise housing neighborhoods. This density is created by four-to-six story residential buildings. These communities have high rises and retail woven throughout, with pleasant walkable, ...
A local construction company says it’s looking at replacing two aging houses at the corner of Babcock Street and Wallace Avenue with a five-story mixed-use building, the latest of several such ...