High-rise Winship Cancer Institute delivers new model for oncology care

Healthcare Facilities

High-rise cancer center delivers new model for oncology care

Atlanta’s 17-story Winship Cancer Institute at Emory Midtown features two-story communities that organize cancer care into one-stop destinations. Designed by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM) and May Architecture, the facility includes comprehensive oncology facilities—including inpatient beds, surgical capacity, infusion treatment, outpatient clinics, diagnostic imaging, linear accelerators, and areas for wellness, rehabilitation, and clinical research.

K-12 Schools

K-12 school sector trends for 2023

Budgeting and political pressures aside, the K-12 school building sector continues to evolve. Security remains a primary objective, as does offering students more varied career options.

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Mixed-Use

The Moore Building, a 16-story office and retail development, opens in Nashville’s Music Row district

Named after Elvis Presley’s onetime guitarist, The Moore Building, a 16-story office building with ground-floor retail space, has opened in Nashville’s Music Row district. Developed by Portman and Creed Investment Company and designed by Gresham Smith, The Moore Building offers 236,000 sf of office space and 8,500 sf of ground-floor retail.

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Perkins and Will

How design supports a more holistic approach to training

For today’s college athletes, training is no longer about cramming team practices and weight lifting sessions in between classes.

The transformation of a concrete jungle into a lush oasis where massive vertical gardens are incorporated into the city's architecture. The intersection of nature and urban living, generative AI

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4 considerations for increasing biodiversity in construction projects

As climate change is linked with biodiversity depletion, fostering biodiverse landscapes during construction can create benefits beyond the immediate surroundings of the project.

More and more states are requiring bullet-resistant and forced-entry resistant doors and windows in school settings.

Safety AND Security: The Importance of Component Compatibility

With proposed and passed laws, it’s important lawmakers and building professionals acknowledge the interplay between fire safety and building security.

Perkins Eastman

From net zero to net positive in K-12 schools

Perkins Eastman’s pursuit of healthy, net positive schools goes beyond environmental health; it targets all who work, teach, and learn inside them.

BWBR

The future of work: What to expect in 2023

While no one disagrees that the workplace has undergone tectonic changes, it is less clear how to understand these shifts and synthesize them into practical action for the coming year.

Gresham Smith

Designing spaces that promote enrollment

Alyson Mandeville, Higher Education Practice Leader, argues that colleges and universities need to shift their business model—with the help of designers.

Hinge

2023 High Growth Study shares tips for finding success in uncertain times

Lee Frederiksen, Managing Partner, Hinge, reveals key takeaways from the firm's recent High Growth study.

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Rendering of the UCI Medical Center in Irvine, Calif., touted to be the nation's first all-electric healthcare facility. images: CO Architects

Healthcare Facilities

UC Irvine takes sustainability to new level with all-electric medical center

The University of California at Irvine (UCI) has a track record for sustainability. Its under-construction UCI Medical Center is designed, positioned, and built to preserve the nearby San Joaquin Marsh Reserve, to reduce the facility’s solar gain by 85%, and to be the first medical center in the country to operate on an all-electric central plant.

Cladding and Facade Systems

Façade innovation: University of Stuttgart tests a ‘saturated building skin’ for lessening heat islands

HydroSKIN is a façade made with textiles that stores rainwater and uses it later to cool hot building exteriors. The façade innovation consists of an external, multilayered 3D textile that acts as a water collector and evaporator.

University Buildings

Supersizing higher education: Tracking the rise of mega buildings on university campuses

Mega buildings on higher education campuses aren’t unusual. But what has been different lately is the sheer number of supersized projects that have been in the works over the last 12–15 months.

Arenas

A new communications platform aims to help sports and entertainment venues operate greener

GOAL (for Green Operations and Advanced Leadership) will give operators ways to gauge their sustainability journeys.

Special Report

Reinforced concrete fins provide shade to the 300-meter-tall National Bank of Kuwait headquarters. Photo: Nigel Young/Foster + Partners

Design Innovation Report

Reinforced concrete walls and fins stiffen and shade the National Bank of Kuwait skyscraper

When the National Bank of Kuwait first conceived its new headquarters more than a decade ago, it wanted to make a statement about passive design with a soaring tower that could withstand the extreme heat of Kuwait City, the country’s desert capital.

Design Innovation Report

Reinforced concrete walls and fins stiffen and shade the National Bank of Kuwait skyscraper

Design Innovation Report

HDR uses artificial intelligence tools to help design a vital health clinic in India

Architects from HDR worked pro bono with iKure, a technology-centric healthcare provider, to build a healthcare clinic in rural India.

Design Innovation Report

Meet The Hithe: A demountable building for transient startups

The Hithe, near London, is designed to be demountable and reusable. The 2,153-sf building provides 12 units of business incubator workspace for startups.

Multifamily Housing

Image by Rebecca Moninghoff from Pixabay

Income-based electric bills spark debate on whether they would harm or hurt EV and heat pump adoption

Starting in 2024, the electric bills of most Californians could be based not only on how much power they use, but also on how much money they make. Those who have higher incomes would pay more; those with lower incomes would see their electric bills decline - a concept known as income-based electric bills.

Multifamily Housing

Boston’s new stretch code requires new multifamily structures to meet Passive House building requirements

Phius certifications are expected to become more common as states and cities boost green building standards. The City of Boston recently adopted Massachusetts’s so-called opt-in building code, a set of sustainability standards that goes beyond the standard state code.

Versa will bring 233 apartment units to Indianapolis's Broad Ripple neighborhood.

Multifamily Housing

Milhaus, Gershman Partners, and Citimark close on $70 million multifamily development in Indy

Versa will bring 233 studio and one- and two-bedroom apartments to Indianapolis's $271 million, Class-A Broad Ripple Village development enterprise.

Multifamily Housing

One out of three office buildings in largest U.S. cities are suitable for residential conversion

Roughly one in three office buildings in the largest U.S. cities are well suited to be converted to multifamily residential properties, according to a study by global real estate firm Avison Young. Some 6,206 buildings across 10 U.S. cities present viable opportunities for conversion to residential use.

Multifamily Housing

The Shipyard Condos

Multifamily Housing

Biden administration beefs up energy efficiency standards on new federally funded housing

The Biden Administration recently moved to require more stringent energy efficiency standards on federally funded housing projects. Developers building homes with taxpayer funds will have to construct to the International Energy Conservation Code (IECC) 2021 for low-density housing and American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers ASHRAE 90.1 for multi-family projects.

Multifamily Housing

Shear Wall Selection for Wood-Framed Buildings

From wall bracing to FTAO, there are many ways to secure the walls of a building. Learn how to evaluate which method is best for a project.

Let Color Inspire Your Next Design

Get inspired! Metal wall and roof systems from PAC-CLAD | Petersen come in a wide range of standard…

Giants 400

Call for surveys: 2023 Giants 400 Report

The 2023 Giants 400 Report will feature more than 130 AEC firm rankings across 25 building sectors and specialty categories.

Giants 400

BD+C's Giants 400 Rankings

Every spring, the editors of Building Design+Construction survey the nation's largest architecture, engineering, and construction firms to identify the most prominent design and construction firms across 25 building sectors and specialty categories. Meet the Giants 400.

Giants 400

New Giants 400 download: Get the complete at-a-glance 2022 Giants 400 rankings in Excel

See how your architecture, engineering, or construction firm stacks up against the nation's AEC Giants. For more than 45 years, the editors of Building Design+Construction have surveyed the largest AEC firms in the U.S./Canada to create the annual Giants 400 report. This year, a record 519 firms participated in the Giants 400 report. The final report includes 137 rankings across 25 building sectors and specialty categories.

AEC Tech Innovation

Meet Diverge, Hensel Phelps' new ConTech investment company

BIM and Information Technology

What AEC professionals should know about digital twins

Sustainability

Increased focus on sustainability is good for business and attracting employees

Market Intelligence

Contractors

The average U.S. contractor has 8.9 months worth of construction work in the pipeline, as of April 2023

Multifamily Housing

One out of three office buildings in largest U.S. cities are suitable for residential conversion

Industry Research

2023 High Growth Study shares tips for finding success in uncertain times

Project + Process Innovation

3D-printed medical center from COBOD in Saraburi, Thailand

3D Printing

World’s first 3D-printed medical center completed

AEC Tech

Utilizing computer vision, AI technology for visual jobsite tasks

Design Innovation Report

Reinforced concrete walls and fins stiffen and shade the National Bank of Kuwait skyscraper

Podcasts

• Life of an Architect Podcast

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Life of an Architect Podcast Ep. 122: Architecture and Artificial Intelligence

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Healthcare Facilities

High-rise cancer center delivers new model for oncology care

Healthcare Facilities

A new behavioral health facility in California targets net zero energy

Shortly before Mental Health Awareness Month in May, development and construction firm Skanska announced the topping out of California’s first behavioral health facility—and the largest in the nation—to target net zero energy. Located in Redwood City, San Mateo County, Calif., the 77,610-sf Cordilleras Health System Replacement Project is slated for completion in late 2024.

3D Printing

World’s first 3D-printed medical center completed

3D construction printing reached new heights this week as the world’s first 3D-printed medical center was completed in Thailand.

Sustainability

Let's build toward a circular economy

Eric Corey Freed, Director of Sustainability, CannonDesign, discusses the values of well-designed, regenerative buildings.

BIM and Information Technology

What AEC professionals should know about digital twins

A growing number of AEC firms and building owners are finding value in implementing digital twins to unify design, construction, and operational data.

Design Innovation Report

BD+C's 2023 Design Innovation Report

Building Design+Construction’s Design Innovation Report presents projects, spaces, and initiatives—and the AEC professionals behind them—that push the boundaries of building design. This year, we feature four novel projects and one building science innovation.

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• Life of an Architect Podcast

Life of an Architect Podcast Ep. 123: Interviews Just Aren’t that Hard

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