Apparently, even building information modeling is bigger in Texas. The Texas Facilities Commission announced last month that it is requiring a BIM model for all state design and construction projects. The agency...
Mergers and acquisitions.Graef, Anhalt, Schloemer & Associates Inc., a multidisciplined, Milwaukee-based engineering firm, has acquired...
Two locations of an Austin, Texas, credit union are protected by a suite of security and fire-protection products including pull stations, a burglar/fire-alarm system, two-wire smoke detectors and a fire thermostat in the night...
• New York-based architect Perkins Eastman has opened an office in Boston to accommodate increased business in the New England region. The new office will be headed by principal John R.A....
Cast a thin brick façade into precast or tilt-up concrete panels by simply snapping plastic holders together on the panel surface, pouring concrete over the brick assembly and stripping the snaps from the face once the concrete...
Thick polypropylene panels are molded with scallop or shingle shapes to lend old-world profiles to new-world projects requiring the appearance of wood siding. To enhance the illusion, a woodgrain pattern is added to the...
California voters approved a proposition to make it easier for government agencies to give private firms a bigger share of their engineering and design work. In 1997, the California Supreme Court interpreted the state's civil...
Groundbreaking is set for later this month on the new Houston headquarters for the Asia Society Texas Center. Designed by Yoshio Taniguchi, the two-story, 38,000-sf will be located in the city's museum district and...
Recognizing that the rehabilitation of existing structures represents approximately half of all U.S. building construction activity, comprehensive codes that deal specifically with this type of project are evolving...
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