The fate of projects being overseen by Edge Development got a lot of attention in the Construction Dive news feed this week. That post, the role of building materials in a St. Louis fire and new green opportunities in homes topped our weekly list of most popular reads.
If you didn't get chance to check your news updates over the last seven days, take a minute and catch up with these five links:
- Insurers arranging takeovers of Calif. contractor's projects—Edge Development has been the prime contractor on an airport renovation and a community college building.
- 130 million homes make for a very green opportunity—Large buildings get much of the attention for green construction, but there are 130 million homes in the U.S. – a large opportunity.
- Builders more confident about single-family homes for retirees—A survey of builders who target buyers 55 or older found they are more confident that business will grow.
- Designers take a hint from medicine with minimally invasive replacement windows—German researchers have come up with an energy-saving, fully assembled replacement window.
- Fire chief laments building materials after St. Louis apartment blaze—A fire displaced 250 people, and the city's fire chief laid some of the blame on synthetic, but code-compliant, materials.
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