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• BD+C's 13th Annual Building Team Awards... Enter Today!

  Jay Schneider, January 11, 2010
  Nominations are open for Building Design+Construction's 13th Annual Building Team Awards. The competition honors commercial, institutional, industrial, and multifamily building projects whose design and construction reflect the successful integration of expertise from all members of the Building Team.  More

• Business park grows yet again

  January 1, 2010
  Construction has begun on the latest addition to Miami International Commerce Center (MICC) industrial park in Doral, Fla. The 75,000-sf facility will offer businesses 3,000 and 7,000 square feet of space. When the new building is completed, MICC will offer tenants 3.2-million sf of light industrial and flex space.  More

• And the world's tallest building is…

  December 1, 2009
  At more than 2,600 feet high, the Burj Dubai (right) can still lay claim to the title of world's tallest building—although like all other super-tall buildings, its exact height will have to be recalculated now that the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH) announced a change to its height criteria.  More

• Research Facility Breaks the Mold

  By Jay W. Schneider, Senior Editor, December 1, 2009
  In the market for state-of-the-art biomedical research space in Boston's Longwood Medical Area? Good news: there are still two floors available in the Center for Life Science | Boston, a multi-tenant, speculative high-rise research building designed by Tsoi/Kobus & Associates, Boston, and developed by Lyme Properties, Hanover, N.  More

• Wood chips to heat school district buildings

  December 1, 2009
  An alternative energy plant for the Hartford Central School District in Hartford, N.Y., will be a first for the state's public school systems. Designed by Albany, N.Y.-based CSArch Architecture/Construction Management, the $1.9 million plant will provide heat and hot water to the district's elementary and high school complex, as well as to an adjacent technical school.  More

• Earthquake engineering keeps airport grounded

  December 1, 2009
  Istanbul, Turkey's new 2.15 million-sf Sabiha Gökçen International Airport opened on October 31, 2009, becoming the world's largest seismically isolated building. Arup's global airport planning and engineering team, in collaboration with architects Dogan Tekeli Sami Sisa Mimarlik Ofisi and contractor LIMAK-GMR JV, working within an 18-month timeline, designed and built the facility wi...  More

• BE&K Building Group, Turner, BRPH awarded Boeing 787 Dreamliner assembly plant project

  November 6, 2009
  A joint venture of the BE&K Building Group and Turner Construction (BE&K | Turner), with design partner BRPH, has been awarded the design-build contract for design and construction of The Boeing Company’s new 787 Dreamliner final assembly plant in North Charleston, South Carolina.  More

• Award-Winning Brick Structures

  November 1, 2009
  The Brick Industry Association recently announced the winners of its 2009 Brick in Architecture Awards Competition. The winning submissions represent the best of the best in brick design and construction. Here’s a recap of the 2009 “Best in Class” winners in the commercial, institutional, and multifamily residential building categories.  More

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