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The City of Boise Planning and Zoning (P&Z) Commission shot down an appeal at its Sept. 13 meeting made by an organization called Better Change for East Downtown (BCED). The appeal contested a conditional approval by the Design Review Committee (DRC) ...

Ball Ventures Ahlquist (BVA), in partnership with Brighton Corporation and B & T Hospitality (B&T), has announced it broke ground Sept. 15 for the next phase of Eagle View Landing. The next phase of the development, located near the Interstate ...

Idaho National Laboratory (INL) is using drones, 3-D scanning and artificial intelligence to gauge construction process on a new building — components of digital engineering technology that could eventually help build nuclear reactors.  “65% of mega projects” — anything over $1 billion — fail,” said Christopher Ritter, director of the ...

Theodore Lawrence Isbell, AIA, NCARB, LEED AP BD+C, HCI-R/C/W, was recently hired as a senior forensic architect at The Vertex Companies Inc. (VERTEX) and will be working from the Boise office. Isbell provides a wide array of consulting services, including forensic analysis and expert witness services for ...

Adler Industrial LLC broke ground in late August for its final two industrial buildings in the AI Meridian Business Park. Described by the company as best-in-class industrial buildings, one of the buildings (at 45,000 square feet) is already leased to a tenant, and the second building is available ...

CSHQA is pleased to announce that Isaiah Shute and Justin Schuessler have joined the firm as electrical engineering interns in the Boise office. They will assist the electrical engineering team with technical development of schematic, design, construction documents, specifications and construction administration ...

NeighborWorks Boise is getting ready to officially break ground on its second pocket neighborhood within Boise city limits on Sept. 14. The new development is called Cole Bluff Cottages and is NeighborWorks’ largest pocket neighborhood to date. The development will ...

COLE Architects has welcomed Eamonn Parke as an architectural intern. He joins COLE with five years of architectural experience and is working on pursuing his architecture license. Parke is a master of architecture graduate from the University of Idaho. 

A Boise-based nonprofit has raised more than $1 million for scholarships and other programs by coordinating collection and recycling of scrap metal from building projects. The effort is called the Idaho Youth Education Recycling Partnership (IYERP) and it partners with dozens of Idaho construction companies. It is led by ...

Pocatello intermodal terminal opens The intermodal rail terminal at the Union Pacific railyard in Pocatello held a ribbon cutting ceremony to celebrate its completion on Sept. 1. Gov. Brad Little was one of the speakers at the event. The terminal is owned ...