Resources: Research

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.

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.

Destination hotel boom not over... yet - 4/1/2008
The hotel market continues to be the fastest growing commercial building segment, but construction spending is slowing. The 66% annual growth rate seen at the end of December is expected to slow to an expected 31% in 2008, and then to 12% in 2009. Hotels, unlike other commercial properties, enjoyed a stronger building boom in 2004-08 than in the previous expansion cycle that ended in 2000.

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.

ASHRAE Seeks Papers on Sustainable Urban Design - 1/8/2008 10:42:00 AM
ASHRAE is seeking papers focused on sustainable urban design for its 2009 Winter Meeting, Jan. 24-28, Chicago.

Recycling number one priority of vinyl roofing industry - 1/8/2008 9:53:00 AM
Because thermoplastic single-ply vinyl roof membrane can be heated and reformed repeatedly over its lifespan, it’s long been a best practice to recycle it.