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Design to scale: How to develop adaptable office spaces

How do you design buildings and spaces that meet occupants’ critical life/work/play balance while providing viable projects for developers, landlords and leasers? How do you foster interpersonal connections between in-office ...
by Joe Montalbano
• January 24, 2023January 24, 2023 • Architecture, Buildings, Cities, Design + Planning
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AECOM @ COP26

COP26 in Glasgow: Tools for creating a just transition in UK cities

COP26 has begun and world leaders are gathering to agree on new carbon reduction targets. For resilience and net zero strategies to succeed in the long term, however, new infrastructure ...
by Karen Clifford and Paul Matthews
• October 29, 2021October 29, 2021 • Cities
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Vertiports: The future of flight infrastructure is green

The increasing development of Electric Vertical Takeoff and Landing (eVTOL) aircrafts is making the case for building out a new network to support them, which will drive the opportunity to ...
by Elisabeth Bernitt
• August 11, 2021August 11, 2021 • Aviation, Transportation
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The Richmond 300 master plan: Incorporating equity and inclusion to improve quality of life

In 2016, the City of Richmond, Virginia, set out to develop a master plan that would chart a path forward over the next two decades, in time for the city’s ...
by Ryan Bouma, Maritza Mercado Pechin and Michael McIntyre
• July 13, 2021July 13, 2021 • Uncategorized
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Supporting safe roads for all

At AECOM, safety is paramount in all we do. It is an essential part of our culture and a key component of one of our core values, Safeguard. Our employees ...
by Devon Molitor
• May 18, 2021May 18, 2021 • Cities, Safety, Transportation, Urban design
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Reversing disparity with infrastructure policy, practice and investment

Our communities are suffering from illness, social isolation, limited access to resources, unemployment and economic downturn. Yet, not all communities are experiencing these pains equally and the injustices are especially ...
by Avinash Srivastava, Emily Schwimmer and Garrett Harper
• March 15, 2021March 15, 2021 • Infrastructure
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Transit Forecasting, Scenario Planning and Budgeting in the Age of COVID-19

How do you keep transit systems moving amid a pandemic when ridership and capital funding are seeing simultaneous historic declines? How do you manage through the funding emergency of today ...
by Tom Prendergast
• November 23, 2020January 19, 2021 • Cities, Funding, Transportation
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