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2012 White Paper: High-Performance Reconstructed Buildings: The 99% Solution
Making the Most of the Reconstruction Boom
Reconstruction in its many forms—tenant improvements, retail fitouts, adaptive reuse, historic preservation, gut rehab, and so on—is keeping many design and construction firms solvent.
The collapse of the U.S. housing market in 2007-2008 precipitated a nearly commensurate downturn in new nonresidential construction in the United States. Filling the gap, at least to some extent, has been reconstruction.
4 more trends in higher-education facilities
Our series on college buildings continues with a look at new classroom designs, flexible space, collaboration areas, and the evolving role of the university library.
Our series on college buildings continues with a look at new classroom designs, flexible space, collaboration areas, and the evolving role of the university library.
In February, we opened our 2012 series on design and construction trends in university buildings with a report on “fusion facilities”. We continue the discussion with four more trends that are shaping collegiate projects:
2012 BUILDING TEAM AWARDS: Rush University Medical Center
This fully integrated Building Team opted for a multi-prime contracting strategy to keep construction going on Chicago’s Rush University Medical Center, despite the economic meltdown.
This fully integrated Building Team opted for a multi-prime contracting strategy to keep construction going on Chicago’s Rush University Medical Center, despite the economic meltdown.
2012 Building Team Awards
Platinum Award
2012 BUILDING TEAM AWARDS: Audie L. Murphy VA Hospital
How a Building Team created a high-tech rehabilitation center for wounded veterans of the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan.
How a Building Team created a high-tech rehabilitation center for wounded veterans of the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan.
2012 Building Team Awards
Gold Award
Since the early 2000s, the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs has treated more than 200,000 Iraq- and Afghanistan-war veterans for post-traumatic stress disorder. The rate of traumatic brain injury (TBI) among U.S. forces has risen dramatically in the last decade as well, from 10,963 cases in all of 2000 to 30,380 just in the fourth quarter of 2011.
2012 BUILDING TEAM AWARDS: Fort Belvoir Community Hospital
A new military hospital invokes evidence-based design to create a LEED-certified facility for the nation’s soldiers and their families.
A new military hospital invokes evidence-based design to create a LEED-certified facility for the nation’s soldiers and their families.
2012 Buiding Team Award
Silver Award
2012 BUILDING TEAM AWARDS: TD Ameritrade Park
The new stadium for the College World Series in Omaha combines big-league amenities within a traditional minor league atmosphere.
The new stadium for the College World Series in Omaha combines big-league amenities within a traditional minor league atmosphere.
Since 1950, the College World Series has been played in Omaha, Neb., the only NCAA event that has stayed in one location for over 60 years. Over the course of six decades, the community of Omaha has developed strong emotional ties to the College World Series as well as to its home field, Rosenblatt Stadium.
Originally built for minor league play in the 1940s, in recent years Rosenblatt Stadium had begun to shows its age, and patchwork renovations could not improve it enough to satisfy the demands of fans, the NCAA, and CWS broadcast partner ESPN.
Best AEC Firms: MHTN Architects nine decades of dedication to Utah
This 65-person design firm has served Salt Lake City and the state of Utah for the better part of 90 years.
This 65-person design firm has served Salt Lake City and the state of Utah for the better part of 90 years.
MHTN Architects, an integral member of the Salt Lake City business community since 1923, has designed many iconic structures throughout Utah over the past nine decades. In recent years, the 65-person firm—one of the largest architecture firms in the Beehive State—has worked on such notable projects as the Zions Bank Tower renovation, the Utah Valley Convention Center, and the Salt Palace Convention Center Expansion, as well as projects for the University of Utah, Weber State University, Brigham Young University, and the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
40 Under 40, the Class of 2012 Redux
Chosen from 223 applicants, these 40 young AEC professionals represent the Class of 2012 in Building Design+Construction’s “40 UNDER 40” competition.
Chosen from 223 applicants, these 40 young AEC professionals represent the Class of 2012 in Building Design+Construction’s “40 UNDER 40” competition.
The 40 young AEC professionals featured here represent the Class of 2012 in Building Design+Construction’s “40 UNDER 40” competition. They were chosen from among 223 applicants to join the 240 previous recipients of this honor, dating to 2006. They range in age from 27 to 39 (as of December 31, 2011, the contest deadline), with a median age of 35. Seventeen of this year’s honorees are women, a high for the program.
18 handy tablet apps for AEC professionals
Check out these helpful apps for everyday design and construction tasks.
Our favorite: MagicPlan, which uses GPS to help you measure and draw a floor plan of any room.
Check out these helpful apps for everyday design and construction tasks.
Our favorite: MagicPlan, which uses GPS to help you measure and draw a floor plan of any room.
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8 tips to consider before LED installation
Lighting experts offer Building Team members critical information to consider before upgrading lighting systems to LEDs.
Lighting experts offer Building Team members critical information to consider before upgrading lighting systems to LEDs.
The LED industry is in the midst of a rapid development cycle. In an effort to lengthen bulb lifetime, intensify colors, and create higher energy efficiencies, manufacturers are developing LEDs at an intense rate.