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Māori communities lead innovative ways of financing housing on ancestral lands

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By Jack Barrett
| The Conversation Verified
New Zealand’s housing crisis disproportionately affects Māori in rural areas where healthy homes are in short supply and collective land ownership presents a challenge to banks. Governments have been grappling with this issue. The previous Labour-led government committed more than NZ$730 million to Māori-led housing solutions, and an announcement this week by the current coalition government saw a $200 million investment into affordable rentals.
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How to define a smart building

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By Julianne Laue, Jack Barrett, James Dipping
| Consulting-Specifying Engineer Verified
Industry insight: Industry expert Sanjyot V. Bhusari, PE, CEM, LEED AP, Principal, Intelligent Buildings Practice Leader, Affiliated Engineers Inc., Gainesville, Florida, discusses smart building design and problems they solve. This transcript is from a May 2020 webcast and has been edited for clarity. As we talk about defining a smart building, our approach from a design point of view has been, what problems are we solving with this?
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Why we need more data scientists on engineering teams

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By Jack Barrett, James Dipping, Jeff Czarniecki
| Consulting-Specifying Engineer Verified
Building information modeling (BIM) is software that applies 3D modeling to processes involved in designing, constructing and managing buildings. The engineering team responsible for making decisions must coordinate their activities with architecture, engineering and construction (AEC) professionals to achieve optimal results. An important role to add to that team is data scientists. Potential role of data scientists Data scientists aren’t included in this core group, but that should change.
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