Resources: Special Editions

Design Criteria for Windows and Doors - 4/14/2008 8:25:00 AM
Design Criteria for Windows and Doors

Integrated Project Delivery builds a brave, new BIM world - 4/1/2008
Three-dimensional information, such as that provided by building information modeling, allows all members of the Building Team to visualize the many components of a project and how they work together. BIM and other 3D tools convey the idea and intent of the designer to the entire Building Team and lay the groundwork for integrated project delivery.

How to prepare for—shhh!!!— the 'R' word - 4/1/2008
Construction jobs, mostly in housing, are down more than 330,000 since late 2006. U.S. home prices dropped 11.4% in January, the steepest decline in 20+ years. The Conference Board said consumer confidence fell to its lowest level in five years, to 64.5 in March, from 76.4 in February—the worst reading since the 61.

UFAD design guides for architects, contractors, and commissioning agents - 4/1/2008
Tate Access Floors offers a series of guides extracted from its experience working on underfloor air distribution projects to help ensure the successful design and construction of these systems. The three-part series includes guides for architects, contractors, and commissioning agents, offering tips, advice, and recommendations on designing, installing, inspecting, and testing UFAD systems.

BD+C Hosts Industry Roundtable on Project Delivery Trends - 4/1/2008
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 statistical findings, Building Design+Construction invited 10 professionals representing all facets of the U.

Construction spending falls for 4th straight month - 3/3/2008 1:23:00 PM
Construction spending fell 1.7% in January, the fourth straight monthly drop.

Kaiser Permanente’s Template for Success - 3/1/2008
Kaiser Permanente’s two new California hospitals, in Antioch and Modesto, were already well into schematic design when John Kouletsis asked designers at the two architectural firms working on them to put down their drawing pens. Kouletisis, director of strategy, planning, and design with Kaiser Permanente’s National Facility Services in the healthcare provider’s Oakland, Calif.

Selling Green in the Spec Office Market - 3/1/2008
When Kansas City-based Zimmer Real Estate Services put the finishing touches on its LEED-certified EcoWorks at Southlake Park office building in Lenexa, Kan., more than six years ago, the developer slapped a premium-Class A price tag on leases in the 124,000-sf building and waited for prospective tenants to get in line to sign up.

8 Innovations That Will Rock Your Next Concrete Project - 1/1/2008
If you think you've seen it all when it comes to concrete construction, then you haven't sat down with Blaine Brownell. The architect-turned-blogger-turned-author has become the industry's foremost expert in everything that is unconventional and provocative in the building products field. For the past eight years, this LEED Accredited Professional, BD+C “40 Under 40” winner, and vis...

BD+C's Green Buildings Research White Paper - 10/29/2007 9:47:00 AM
“Green Buildings Research White Paper,” the fifth in a series of annual reports on green building by Building Design+Construction, provides exclusive data on how building owners, operators, facilities directors, and real estate executives view green buildings—and what they are doing to implement green building.