As architects design high-performing commercial buildings, supporting life safety via perimeter fire containment systems is critical. Specifying a tested, listed assembly that incorporates six essential design elements and withstands extreme testing conditions can help architects support passive life safety and optimize opportunities for egress during a commercial building fire.
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Offering undocumented immigrants a path to legal status will put an end to unfair competition and labor exploitatio...
NBBJ is designing the project.
Bruner/Cott Architects designed the project.

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NIBS hosts roundtable to create coordinated program to advance collaboration.
The vertiports will enable eVTOL Aviation, connecting Florida’s major cities.
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The concept looks to create an entire floating city centered around a data center.

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Poor planning, complex contracting, a lack of accountability and high levels of collusion to blame.
The solution uses FAR-UV light technology.
Association officials call for removing tariffs on key materials to provide immediate relief for hard-hit contracto...
Well-designed streetscapes provide a wealth of benefits for their respective communities.

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Senate bill proposes pilot program to reknit communities.
Howard Laks Architects designed the project.
Studio Gang designed the project.
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Experience designing resilience standards to aid effort to protect communities from extreme heat.
The facility is located at Red Bull’s Milton Keynes Technology Campus.
Historic tax credits helped pave the way, but preservation required creative solutions.
A new web-based tool from Sasaki takes the guesswork out of heading back to the workplace.
55 Hudson Yards in NYC is the first building to pilot the technology.
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The device helps to prevent heat injuries on job sites.
The original school’s alumni includes Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Walt Frazier.
Becoming an architect is hard, but we all know that. You go to school for a long time and work and study, but upon...

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Half of survey respondents say 2020 project profitability decreased due to pandemic.
Our new technology called Gresham Smith’s Empathic Analytics allows us to measure and record a user’s perceived saf...
Morphosis designed the project.
Despite the monthly uptick, backlog is 0.9 months lower than in January 2020.