construction
What is C-PACE? Commercial Property-Assessed Clean Energy financing, or C-PACE, is a program that funds improvements that increase the energy efficiency and resiliency of commercial buildings. Currently approved in more than thirty states, C-PACE is intended to encourage building upgrades that enhance energy efficiency, water conservation, renewable energy, seismic and other safety measures. In practice, […]
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Over the past year, the construction industry has been buffeted by many factors due to the fallout from the spread of the coronavirus. One area that has proved particularly troublesome is the rapid increase in prices for construction materials. One specific item—lumber—is notable for its sharp increase in price that has remained high for a […]
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We are a society that has, for the most part, respected the rule of law and has used facts, mixed with some sense of human emotion as a basis for all decision making. The facts are discouraging as they relate to diversity and inclusion in real estate and construction in the City of Philadelphia, and […]
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As far as Philadelphia neighborhoods go, the Far Northeast often goes unmentioned when talking about economic development or real estate activity. But as an urban planner (and someone who spent their formative years living there), I thought it would be worth focusing an edition of our Philadelphia Housing Index (PHI) Present Value blog on some […]
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“Three days?” I ask because it was difficult to believe what he was suggesting. “Well two days; on the third day, the house overheated in under an hour.” I am standing in the middle of the 13th Annual Passive House Institute United States (PHIUS) conference. Michael from Ingui-Baxt architects has just explained that his four-story […]
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For this month’s Philadelphia Housing Index (PHI) blog post, we decided to take a look at new construction permit data from Philadelphia’s Department of Licenses and Inspection. We filtered the data to examine only new construction building permits to see how Philadelphia’s development pipeline stacks up compared to previous years and which neighborhoods are showing […]
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