$84M redevelopment in Florida celebrates milestone

$84M redevelopment in Florida celebrates milestone

A Jan. 6 ceremony will commemorate the placement of the highest piece of structure as part of the $84 million redevelopment, titled Imagine Clearwater, in downtown Clearwater, Florida.
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Building Contractors | Associated General Contractors of America

Building construction is a major contributor to employment and economic activity, in addition to producing structures that add to productivity and quality of life. In 2018, nonresidential construction spending in the U.S. totaled $748 billion ($453 billion private, $295 billion public) and nonresidential building and specialty trade contractors accounted for 3.4 million of the industry’s 7.3 million employees.
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Concrete’s cobra effect: unintended results of embodied carbon reduction

Recent efforts in North America to reduce embodied carbon in concrete are similar to British solutions to eradicate cobras in colonial India. Simple solutions often create bigger problems than the complex ones they were trying to solve.
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