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First look: Austin to get first high-rise since 2003

Developer Cousins Properties broke ground on the 29-story Colorado Tower in downtown Austin, Texas, the city's first high-rise building since Cousins' completed the Frost Bank Tower a decade ago.
Study analyzes effectiveness of reflective ceilings

Engineers at Brinjac quantify the illuminance and energy consumption levels achieved by increasing the ceiling’s light reflectance.
First look: Callebaut's eye-popping Möbius building for Taichung arts center

Dramatic plan would create three large interior vaulted spaces around a central plaza.
Purdue, industry partners test light steel framing for seismic safety

Reasearch will conclude with shake table testing of structural and non-structural components.
7 great places that represent excellence in environmental design

Program celebrates professional and scholarly excellence in environmental design, with emphasis on human activity or experience.
‘Culture of solutions’ makes this fast-track office project a reality [2013 Building Team Award winner]

Working together for the first time, a unified Building Team executes a large pharmaceutical office program in just 12 months—while meeting the needs of two demanding clients.
Vertical urban campus fills a tall order [2013 Building Team Award winner]

Roosevelt University builds a 32-story tower to satisfy students’ needs for housing, instruction, and recreation.
Building a better box: High-bay lab aims for net-zero [2013 Building Team Award winner]

Building Team cooperation and expertise help Georgia Tech create a LEED Platinum building for energy science.
Finnish elevator technology could facilitate supertall building design

Carbon-fiber ropes could offer significant advantages in energy consumption, downtime, compared with conventional technology.
Proven 6-step approach to treating historic windows

This course provides step-by-step prescriptive advice to architects, engineers, and contractors on when it makes sense to repair or rehabilitate existing windows, and when they should advise their building owner clients to consider replacement.

First look: Austin to get first high-rise since 2003

Jun 17, 2013

Developer Cousins Properties broke ground on the 29-story Colorado Tower in downtown Austin, Texas, the city's first high-rise building since Cousins' completed the Frost Bank Tower a decade ago.

News - BD+C Staff

Study analyzes effectiveness of reflective ceilings

Jun 17, 2013

Engineers at Brinjac quantify the illuminance and energy consumption levels achieved by increasing the ceiling’s light reflectance.

News - C.C. Sullivan and Barbara Horwitz-Bennett

DOE launches database on energy performance of 60,000 buildings

Jun 17, 2013

The Energy Department today launched a new Buildings Performance Database, the largest free, publicly available database of residential and commercial building energy performance information.

News - BD+C Staff

AIA CES class: New trends in ceiling designs and materials

New trends in ceiling designs and materials [AIA course]

Jun 17, 2013

A broad array of new and improved ceiling products offers designers everything from superior acoustics and closed-loop, recycled content to eased integration with lighting systems, HVAC diffusers, fire sprinkler heads, and other overhead...

Feature - C.C. Sullivan and Barbara Horwitz-Bennett

All images ©Vincent Callebaut Architectures

First look: Callebaut's eye-popping Möbius building for Taichung arts center

Jun 14, 2013

French design firm Vincent Callebaut Architectures has released renderings of "Swallow's Nest," an entry in a design competition for a new cultural center, fine arts museum, and public library in Taichung City, Taiwan...

News - BD+C Staff

A view of the two-story test building. Photo: Kara Peterman

Purdue, industry partners test light steel framing for seismic safety

Jun 14, 2013

A partnership of leading earthquake engineering researchers from top U.S. and Canadian universities and design professionals from the steel industry have begun the final phase of a three-year project to increase the seismic safety of...

News - Purdue University

7 great places that represent excellence in environmental design

Jun 13, 2013

An adaptive reuse to create LEED Platinum offices, a park that honors veterans, and a grand national plaza are among the seven projects named winners of the 2013 Great Places Awards. The Environmental Design and Research Association...

News - BD+C Staff

L.A.'s natural history museum completes reimagining of buildings and grounds

The Natural History Museum of Los Angeles completed a full-scale transformation this month with the opening of its new Nature Gardens and Nature Lab and the Otis Booth Pavilion with an iconic Fin Whale specimen.

Blog Entry - Drew Ballensky

Health Product Declaration Collaborative names Knott as Executive Director

Jun 13, 2013

John L. Knott Jr. has been named as the Health Product Declaration Collaborative’s (www.hpdcollaborative.org) first Executive Director following a national search. The Health Product Declaration Collaborative (HPDC) is a customer-led...

News - Health Product Declaration Collaborative