Browsing: Construction
NYC shocks the market with housing lottery for apartments under $175k—near Central Park
New York City is planning to sell apartments on the Upper West Side of Manhattan just two blocks from Central…
US renters are winning concessions when they sign new contracts, an indication that surging apartment construction is easing the supply…
Shrinkflation is hitting homes: Expect ‘the death of the hallway’ and other Tetris-like designs to cut construction costs
Home prices keep going up, yet new homes keep shrinking—and architects say they’ll just keep getting smaller, according to a…
Builders are pumping the brakes on new apartment construction—but landlords will keep ‘jacking up’ rental prices
The U.S. housing market is short 4.5 million homes, according to recent Zillow estimates, which is worsening the affordability crisis…
Lumber prices are nearing all-time lows but could be headed for a rebound, executive says. ‘We are extremely, extremely cheap’
After dipping below post-pandemic lows this past week, inflation-adjusted lumber prices are approaching their all-time lows and are 20%-30% below…
Planning decision for London’s controversial ‘Undershaft’ skyscraper delayed as objections mount over the city’s tallest tower
The City of London Corporation deferred a vote on plans for a new 73-story office tower next to the Gherkin…
Newly constructed Tokyo apartment block will be demolished because it blocks people’s Mt. Fuji views
A newly constructed residential building in suburban Tokyo will be pulled down the month before the apartments were due to…
A 2016 study by the McKinsey Global Institute published in Harvard Business Review ranked the construction industry second to last…
Major breakthroughs see emissions slashed from the world’s most destructive material Concrete is the second-most used material on the planet…
In 2011, the Finnish robotics company ZenRobotics tackled waste management with their robotic waste sorter. A Chicago-based science tech company,…