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Solid foundations: 12 fresh flooring options
Here's a roundup of the latest innovations in commercial flooring products.
From resilient flooring that looks like stone to ceramic tile that's warm to the touch, here's a roundup of the latest innovations in commercial flooring products.
From resilient flooring that looks like stone to ceramic tile that's warm to the touch, here's a roundup of the latest innovations in commercial flooring products.
Proven 6-step approach to treating historic windows
This AIA/CES course is worth 1.0 AIA LU/HSW
This course provides step-by-step prescriptive advice to architects, engineers, and contractors on when it makes sense to repair or rehabilitate existing windows, and when they should advise their building owner clients to consider replacement.
Building a better box: High-bay lab aims for net-zero [2013 Building Team Award winner]
Building Team cooperation and expertise help Georgia Tech create a LEED Platinum building for energy science.
Building Team cooperation and expertise help Georgia Tech create a LEED Platinum building for energy science.
Georgia Tech always intended its new energy science facility to be a sustainable building. The project was envisioned as a living lab, embodying the high performance goals that would be explored by the researchers inside. The school needed an adaptable space to accommodate unknown users, scientific techniques, and equipment. A fairly simple high-bay box was the initial plan.
Vertical urban campus fills a tall order [2013 Building Team Award winner]
Roosevelt University builds a 32-story tower to satisfy students’ needs for housing, instruction, and recreation.
Roosevelt University builds a 32-story tower to satisfy students’ needs for housing, instruction, and recreation.
Creating a tall facility on a constrained city site always presents special difficulties for Building Teams. Make the program unusually diverse—in this case, combining residential, classroom, laboratory, office, conference, dining, and recreational functions—and the complexity level increases. Now throw in the need to link the facility to a landmark 1880s structure with different floor-to-floor heights. Finally, have the city of Chicago “orange tag” one of two existing buildings on your site, derailing your plans for a complete demolition.
‘Culture of solutions’ makes this fast-track office project a reality [2013 Building Team Award winner]
Working together for the first time, a unified Building Team executes a large pharmaceutical office program in just 12 months—while meeting the needs of two demanding clients.
Working together for the first time, a unified Building Team executes a large pharmaceutical office program in just 12 months—while meeting the needs of two demanding clients.
Situated on a promontory overlooking a 70-acre quarry lake 20 miles northwest of Philadelphia, the new, five-story corporate headquarters for pharmaceutical solutions provider Endo Health Solutions features the accoutrements typical of modern corporate office buildings. Employees and visitors enter the facility through a striking, double-height glass atrium with a grand staircase and a vibrant, contemporary design aesthetic.
Study analyzes effectiveness of reflective ceilings
Engineers at Brinjac quantify the illuminance and energy consumption levels achieved by increasing the ceiling’s light reflectance.
Engineers at Brinjac quantify the illuminance and energy consumption levels achieved by increasing the ceiling’s light reflectance.
First look: Austin to get first high-rise since 2003
Developer Cousins Properties broke ground on the 29-story Colorado Tower in downtown Austin, Texas, the city's first high-rise building since Cousins' completed the Frost Bank Tower a decade ago.
Developer Cousins Properties broke ground on the 29-story Colorado Tower in downtown Austin, Texas, the city's first high-rise building since Cousins' completed the Frost Bank Tower a decade ago.
Architects upbeat about the construction market
Following the first reversal into negative territory in ten months in April, the Architecture Billings Index has bounced back in May. As a leading economic indicator of construction activity, the ABI reflects the approximate nine to twelve month lag time between architecture billings and construction spending.
Uncertainty in marketplace cited as main roadblock to broader recovery
Following the first reversal into negative territory in ten months in April, AIA's Architecture Billings Index bounced back in May, reaching 52.9.
