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Janey Construction Selects Wellness Workdays to Foster Employee Well-Being and a Resilient Workforce

Workplace Wellness

A ,2020 study found that 83% of construction industry workers have experienced moderate to severe mental health concerns. Wellness Workdays, a leading provider of behavioral health and wellness coaching for the construction industry, for more than 20 years, announces its partnership with Janey Construction.

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Living Buildings Are On The Way — The Future Office Will Breathe, Digest And Grow

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Construction today typically follows this linear trajectory: materials are extracted, transported, produced, transported again, and used to build and fit out. The idea was to think outside of existing construction conventions to imagine a space that could form part of nature’s ecosystem. million without a home.

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Here are 4 Sustainable Office Design Trends To Embrace In 2022

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28% of this derive from operational emissions – the carbon omitted by powering, heating and cooling a building – while 11% is a by-product of embodied emissions which are produced through the extraction, transportation, manufacturing, and assembly of the materials used to build, fit out and furnish a building.

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Report sets out nine ways cities can reduce carbon emissions

Workplace Insight

As cities grow in population and importance, urban construction will continue to gather pace. The report, Reducing Embodied Carbon in Cities: Nine Solutions for Greener Buildings and Communities , highlights nine innovative solutions for all phases of construction and demolition. “In

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Office refurbishments rise to all time high in London

Workplace Insight

New infrastructure and expanding transport links have attracted people to previously overlooked areas like mid-town and the eastern fringes of the City. and new construction is starting across 50 schemes. Additional figures from the research showed: Just over a third of space under construction – 5.3 Volume is now at 4.4

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A worker dies every 96 minutes from a job-related injury. Here’s how to fix it

Work Life

When a cargo ship crashed into Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key Bridge late last month, an overnight construction crew was hard at work repairing potholes on the roadway. In February, another man from Guatemala died after falling from a New Jersey building under construction. The resulting collapse killed six of the eight workers.

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Going In Circles? Good!

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Architects and designers are increasingly prioritizing sustainability, focusing on low-VOC, recycled materials, and reducing embodied carbon through reuse and modular construction. Rather than drywall and studs with added finishes, there are modular construction options like DIRTT and Falkbuilt.