Government Buildings
BuroHappold’s work for the new Santa Monica (Calif.) City Services Building will help it become one of the first municipal facilities to meet the cutting-edge criteria for ILFI’s Living Building Challenge.
The engineering firm also launched a long-term partnership with ILFI.
The addition of a new visitors' center marked the reopening of the Washington Monument after three years of renovation. Images: Alan Karchmer
This is one of several landmark restoration projects underway in the nation’s capital.
Photo: David Mark from Pixabay
AECOM, HOK, Jacobs, and Turner Construction top the rankings of the nation's largest government b...
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All photos courtesy Harvard Jolly
Harvard Jolly designed the building.
A rendering of an Innovation Center that would be part of a larger expansion of the Port San Antonio, which has become a platform for connecting cybersecurity and digital innovations with leading global industries. Image: Port San Antonio and Gonzalez/Mogas Architects
Expansions would accommodate cybersecurity, aerospace, and defense tenants, and help commercializ...
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All renderings courtesy Weiss/Manfredi
Weiss/Manfredi is designing the project.
Fentress Architects, Michael Graves Architecture & Design, and Hensel Phelps Construction Com...
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Courtesy CoreCivic
JE Dunn will manage the design and construction of the Kansas-based facility.
Nearly a mile below ground level, Davis Cavern at the Sanford Underground Research Facility is getting an overhaul to accommodate an experiment to test a hypothesis about what makes up dark matter. Image: SURF, courtesy of LEO A DALY
This LEO A DALY-designed project makes way to produce the world’s most sensitive detector to this...
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Photo: Torben Eskerod
The C.F. Møller-designed prison’s architecture supports the inmates’ and staff’s mental and physi...
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Left out of this ongoing national debate over infrastructure are the nation’s other publ...
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The FBI’s Biometric Technology Center is designed to accommodate the future of the Bureau’s largest division, Criminal Justice Information Services. Its modular design enables a flexible and adaptable workplace
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The U.S. Consulate in Erbil, in Iraq's Kurdistan region, will be the largest such facility in the world. Courtesy EYP.
Turner Construction Co., PCL Construction Enterprises, and Clark Group top BD+C’s rankin...
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The Seguin Library, Photo: Dana Hoff, photo courtesy of PGAL
WSP, AECOM, and Arup top BD+C’s ranking of the nation’s largest government sector engine...
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The Michelle Obama Branch Library.
Stantec, HOK, and Gensler top BD+C’s ranking of the nation’s largest government sector a...
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Rendering courtesy of Spector Group
The center will serve as a regional training center for all Nassau County Police personnel.
All photos © Leo A Daly
Building Team converts 1940s campus into a sleek, modern home for U.S. intelligence agencies.
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The Building Team made extensive use of mockups to sort out interior details and materials. Bruce Damonte Photography.
Gold Award: The Building Team for L.A.’s newest courthouse went way beyond what was expected.
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Competition is fierce among institutions vying for private capital to help fund their building projects. The Smithsonian National Museum of African-American History and Culture was partly funded by private donors. A few years ago, the Smithsonian launched its largest-ever capital campaign to raise $1.5 billion. Image: Wikimedia Commons
Capital campaigns abound, even though government financing still plays a vital role.
Mecklenburg County Land Use Environmental Service Agency, Charlotte, NC, Image © Gensler.
Government work settings ranked the lowest in their effectiveness across the four work modes: foc...
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DLR Group, NBBJ, Hensel Phelps, Sundt Construction, AECOM, and Dewberry top Building Design+Const...
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New buildings on the Youth Campus of Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming will aim at becoming the first in a national park to achieve the Living Building Challenge certification. Image: Hennebery Eddy Architects
The money will support new eco-friendly and efficient buildings on the park’s Youth Campus.
Inverness Village Hall, Inverness, Ill. Photo: Neva O'Laughlin, Wikimedia Creative Commons
HOK, Stantec, Turner Construction Co.,Clark Group, AECOM and STV top Building Design+Construction...
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Texas Capitol Building. Pixabay Public Domain
CannonDesign, Stantec, Turner Construction Co.,Mortensen Construction, WSP | Parsons Brinckerhoff...
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Page, EYP, Fluor Corp.,BL Harbert International, and AECOM top Building Design+Construction’s ann...
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A construction crew installs one of 1,200 prefabricated cross-laminated timber (CLT) wall panels that make up the 92-room Candlewood Suites at Redstone Arsenal, Huntsville, Ala. Leadlease was the GC, developer, and owner on the project. It is the nation’s first all-CLT hotel project. Photo courtesy of Lendlease.
By privatizing the construction, renovation, operation, maintenance, and ownership of its hotels ...
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Marine Corps University, Quantico, Va. AECOM (architect, MEP, SE), NAVFAC Washington (owner), CDM Smith/Coakley Williams, JV (GC). Photo: Ulf Wallin Photography courtesy of Coakley & Williams.
Jacobs, AECOM, and Burns & McDonnell top Building Design+Construction’s annual ranking of the...
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Headquarters building, Tel Nof Air Base, Israel. Photo courtesy of U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. flickr Creative Commons.
Fluor Corp., The Walsh Group, and Hensel Phelps top Building Design+Construction’s annual ranking...
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For federal courthouses, embassies, government facilities and other high profile buildings, build...
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