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August 11,2010Chicago-based architects Sheehan & Partners teamed up with San Francisco-based Paradigm Structural Engineers on the design of a 200,000-sf data center for Equinix, a Foster City, Calif.-based provider of network-neutral data center and interconnection services. Because the facility is being built in the earthquake-prone Bay Area, the state-of-the-art, four-story building is being constructe...
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August 11,2010A groundbreaking ceremony was recently held for the 560,000-sf, six-story replacement hospital for Silver Cross Hospital in Joliet, Ill. Designed and master planned by RTKL, Baltimore, the $400 million facility will feature 289 private rooms in an environment that focuses on patient-centric care. To minimize transfers and improve safety, the patient rooms will be acuity adaptable for intermedia...
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August 11,2010The specific gross domestic product (GDP) component that captures the trend in capital spending by U.S. companies — nonresidential business investment — declined for the seventh consecutive quarter during second quarter of this year. The good news is that the second-quarter decline in capital investment — 1.
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August 11,2010Conceived during the contentious period between 1993 and 1995 when health-care reform was making national headlines, Baptist Health Medical Center, North Little Rock, had to be designed for an uncertain future. But flexibility was on the hospital's agenda anyway, says Harrison M. Dean, lead administrator.
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August 11,2010With a changing economy comes a changing workplace, as many design firms are finding today. Building owners and developers are now looking to build flexible work spaces that can be reconfigured as their needs change. "We're seeing more and more demountable wall systems being used in office buildings, for one," says Kimberly Surratt, senior designer with WorkPlaceUSA Design Group, a design-buil...
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August 11,2010One Ten Westminster in Providence, R.I., will be the state's tallest building if it reaches its planned 520 feet. The 456,000-sf, 40-story, 145-unit luxury residential high-rise is scheduled to begin construction in May. The building site is situated between two historic landmarks, the Arcade and the Turks Head Building, and the upper floors will offer views of the Statehouse and Narragansett Bay.
