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Coronavirus | March 13, 2020 |
BD+C Editors
Here's the latest news BD+C editors are tracking on COVID-19's impact on the AEC industry and the real estate market.
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The STAAT Mod system provides a fully functioning hospital environment for treating high-acuity patients. Images: HGA
Coronavirus | April 10, 2020 |
John Caulfield, Senior Editor
A STAAT Mod system can be ready to receive patients in less than a month.
Typical COVID-19 patient room layout in an alternate care facility. Photo: Henderson Engineers
Coronavirus | April 10, 2020 |
JAKE KATZENBERGER, MARK CHRISMAN, AND RUSS MURDOCK, HENDERSON ENGINEERS
COVID-19: Converting existing unused or underused hospitals, hotels, convention centers, and other alternate care s...
Market Data | April 10, 2020 |
BD+C Editors
Designing for the next generation of student life and a mass timber Ramada Hotel rises in British Columbia.
Study Areas at the Trone Student Center, Furman University
University Buildings | April 09, 2020 |
Doug Campbell, AIA, LEED AP, Ghafari Director of Education
Since many academic departments have been concentrated in their own buildings or portions of campus, bringing these...
Photo: Anna Shvets via Pexels
Coronavirus | April 09, 2020 |
IDA
The International Design Awards is looking for innovations in low-cost ventilators, in-home isolation pods, and reu...
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Codes and Standards | April 09, 2020 |
Peter Fabris, Contributing Editor
Covid-19 outbreak may lead employers to reevaluate office commitments.
Market Data | April 09, 2020 |
BD+C Staff
Urine could be the key to building in outer space and how to turn a high school into a patient care center in just...
Isolation pods being installed at Miami Beach convention center, which is being converted to a field hospital by 250 workers under the direction of contractor Robins & Morton.
Coronavirus | April 09, 2020 |
ROBERT CASSIDY, EXECUTIVE EDITOR
COVID-19 alert: Robins & Morton to convert Miami Beach Convention Center into a 450-bed field hospital
Image: ESA, Foster and Partners
Building Materials | April 08, 2020 |
David Malone, Associate editor
A new building method to potentially make space architecture possible enters the fray.
Coronavirus | April 08, 2020 |
AIA
The tool is intended to assist non-healthcare design professionals with identifying alternative sites suitable for...
An NRCA survey of roofing contractors found that the majority of respondents (52%) said their businesses had been significantly or very significantly impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic.
Coronavirus | April 08, 2020 |
ROBERT CASSIDY, EXECUTIVE EDITOR
NRCA survey shows 52% of roofing contractor said COVID-19 pandemic was having a significant or very significant imp...
Sponsored Content | April 08, 2020 | TAMLYN |
Currently, when it comes to water management systems for openings such as vents and electrical, many builders simpl...
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Coronavirus | April 08, 2020 | Burns & McDonnell blog | Jon Wright
First, most important and most complex: Create an extensive safety plan for your facilities and job sites that prot...
Market Data | April 08, 2020 |
BD+C Editors
Stantec discusses how hospitals can adapt buildings to address worst-case scenarios and FXCollaborative Architects...
This illustration shows how COVID-19 patients would flow through a high school gym that's been converted to a ward for observation and immediate care. Images: HKS
Coronavirus | April 07, 2020 |
John Caulfield, Senior Editor
HKS’s concept paper presents three scenarios.
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Coronavirus | April 07, 2020 |
AGC
Associated General Contractors of America secures fix to loan qualifications after alerting administration official...
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Codes and Standards | April 07, 2020 |
Peter Fabris, Contributing Editor
Includes fact sheets for employees, employers, and a questions and answers document.
Market Data | April 07, 2020 |
BD+C Editors
Leo A Daly's Hotel2Hospital prototype takes shape, while the number of delayed projects reaches 2,550 in the U.S. a...
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April 07, 2020 | SmithGroup Perspectives blog | George Karidis and Rob Thompson
Indoor relative humidity is a function of seasonal climate and building HVAC. The range of 40% to 60% RH may reduce...
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Coronavirus | April 06, 2020 |
AGC
Construction officials urge agency to make clear that firms that employ 500 or fewer people to qualify for paycheck...
It’s important that healthcare teams can control access to every department in the hospital. When there’s an outbreak, it’s key that practitioners have the option to restrict access to certain spaces.
Coronavirus | April 06, 2020 | Stantec Blog | Tim Eastwood
A Canadian healthcare architect looks at how hospital staff can act now to modify facilities and contain a pandemic...
The NMHC found that the majority of the 135 multifamily contractors surveyed had experienced delays with apartment or condominium projects due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Coronavirus | April 05, 2020 |
ROBERT CASSIDY, EXECUTIVE EDITOR
The...
Lumber and building materials revenue totaled $72 billion in 2019, according to Principia.
Coronavirus | April 05, 2020 |
ROBERT CASSIDY, EXECUTIVE EDITOR
King County, Wash., is converting warehouses and hotels, and building temporary structures on parking lots and sports fields, to quarantine people who, for whatever reason, can't quarantine themselves. Images: King County, Washington
Coronavirus | April 05, 2020 |
John Caulfield, Senior Editor
The county is adding 2,500 beds within a dozen Assessment & Recovery Centers that DLR Group helped to design....
The first 500 patient rooms at McCormick Place Convention Center. The 10X10-foot "rooms" have a cot, folding chair, lamp, and blanket, and a bowl containing a toothbrush, surgical masks, and earplugs.
Coronavirus | April 04, 2020 |
Walsh Construction
Walsh Construction, one of the largest contractors in the city of Chicago and in the United States, is leading the...
University of Chicago Medicine workers with face shields produced by bKL architects
Coronavirus | April 04, 2020 |
ROBERT CASSIDY, EXECUTIVE EDITOR
Architecture firms from coast to coast have suddenly turned into manufacturing centers for the production of protec...
FXCollaborative has designed iconic buildings in cities throughout the world including 4 Times Square in New York. Photo: Copyright Jeff Goldberg/Esto, Courtesy of FXCollaborative.
Coronavirus | April 03, 2020 |
Guy Geier FAIA, FIIDA, LEED, Managing Partner, FXCollaborative Architects
Density may make it easier for the virus to spread, but let’s not forget that cities are in many ways the heart of...
Images courtesy Kogniz Health
Coronavirus | April 03, 2020 |
Kogniz Health
System continuously scans crowds for fever as they enter facilities to locate and isolate risks.
Market Data | April 03, 2020 |
ABC
The construction unemployment rate was 6.9% in March, up 1.7 percentage points from the same time one year ago.
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AGC officials are calling for additional federal measures to help avoid further layoffs. Photo: Pixabay
Coronavirus | April 03, 2020 |
AGC
The fast-worsening COVID-19 pandemic has triggered layoffs at more than a quarter of construction firms responding...
