With 3,700 legal advisers in 28 offices in the Americas, Asia, Europe, and the Middle East, Clifford Chance holds the distinction of being the world's largest law firm. For its one-million-sf Canary Wharf...
As Chief Architect of the U.S. General Services Administration, Edward A. Feiner, FAIA, oversees an inventory of more than 350 million sf of Federal space for courthouses, office buildings, national laboratories,...
Earlier this year, New Millennium Building Systems surveyed architects, engineers, contractors, building owners, and developers to determine which issues were top-of-mind going into 2008. To drill deeper into the...
When Congress passed the Energy Policy Act of 1992 (EPAct) regulating water-flow rates for plumbing fixtures, engineers and building teams were left to determine how to meet the new water-conservation codes while avoiding such...
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Windows are among the most...
Yale University's new $52.6 million sculpture building and gallery has been described by its architect, Stephen Kieran, as a “very simple” building. But Kieran, a partner at Philadelphia-based KieranTimberlake...
The new Walter J. Sullivan Water Purification Facility in Cambridge, Mass., can easily be mistaken for a commercial or institutional building. Its brick-clad exterior incorporates such features as a clock tower,...
Spiraling energy costs, energy conservation efforts and the beneficial effects of daylight exposure on worker productivity have spurred development of technology that enables natural light to be brought into areas of...
These days, integrated voice and data communications providers can wire most office buildings with high-speed communications in the blink of an eye. But New York City's Empire State Building was another story. It...
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