Building Design & Construction - March 1, 2009
Features
Transsolar Climate Engineering: Moderating The Design Process
In 1987, a group of building experts from 15 countries, under the aegis of the Paris-based International Energy Agency, toured 45 commercial buildings worldwide to investigate what kinds of building systems reduced energy consumption most effectively, which failed to do so, and why. Among the participants were two German engineers, Matthias Schuler and Thomas Auer, who, according to Schuler, ca...
- Departments
- RSMeans cost comparisons: Jails, courthouses, police stations, post offices
- Study shows 30% above ASHRAE energy efficiency difficult to reach in buildings, 50% unreachable
- Editorial
- Congress to AEC industry: Drop dead!
- Information Technology
- SmartBIM Library 3.2 launched, QTO coming
- On The Drawing Board
- University of Chicago breaks ground on subterranean addition to library
- Florida to get two schools in one
- 'Vertical courtyards' will spur occupant interaction at Taiwan's planned Chinatrust Bank HQ
- Thought Leaders
- Q&A with the City of Boston's Joseph Mulligan: 'Capital requirements don't take a holiday'
- Features
- Senior-friendly Green Project Takes Top Prize in MBI's Student Design Contest
- Small engineering firm's great passion for green
- Best AEC Firms toWork For
- Sustainable Design: What Do Europeans Know That We Don't Know (But Should)?
- Boosting Business with Employee Training and Development
- Atelier ten: Learning From the White Ant
- Ingenhoven Architects: Seeking Optimal Balance
- Seven Decades of Leadership
- AIA Course: Building With Architectural Metals
- Hopkins Architects: Ceilings That Do Double Duty
- Building Communities for Nearly 80 Years
- All in the Family
- Building Products Report
- Old carpet made new
- Hit them with your best shot
- Can't go to the rainforest? Bring the rainforest to you.
- Save energy by illuminating stairwells and corridors only when they are occupied
- EPDM panels create cool roofs
- Standing-seam solar roof
- Air sanitizer for HVAC ducts
- Save money, stay warm with insulated metal wall panels
- All warm-edge spacers are not created equal
- First cost, client pushback biggest barriers to adoption of high-efficiency lighting systems, say BD+C readers
- 8 tips for specifying and installing glulam beams
- Building materials prices slide for fourth straight month
- 7 breakthrough acoustical products for green buildings
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