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.
read more April 01, 2010 | By Jeffrey Yoders, Senior Associate Editor
Three-dimensional design tools have revolutionized the way architects and engineers design buildings; in recent years...
April 01, 2010 | By C.C. Sullivan and Barbara Horwitz-Bennett
Does the hospitality sector see a silver lining on the horizon? Although many are predicting that the economic slump...
April 01, 2010 | By Jeff Yoders, Senior Associate Editor
Foster + Partners' new Fortaleza Hall is open and inviting, a striking contrast to the largely inward-looking buildin...
April 01, 2010 | By Jay W. Schneider, Senior Editor
No one saw this plot twist coming: restoration of the domed ceiling in the Lambert-St. Louis International Airport, w...
April 01, 2010 | By Robert Cassidy, Editor-in-Chief
“Cheap.” “Flimsy.” “Poor construction.” “Trailers.” Those are some of the derogatory terms that manufacturers of modu...
March 01, 2010 | By C.C. Sullivan and Barbara Horwitz-Bennett
Now at a major crossroads, the traditional library—essentially a book-oriented community center—is evolving into a di...
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Get inspired! Brick’s adaptability has made it the premier building material for centuries even as styles come and go. Nothing says “classic” like brick, but nothing says “innovative” like brick either. Check out some examples of how fired clay brick remains a major presence in the 21st Century designer’s palette.
read more March 01, 2010 | By Robert Cassidy, Editor-in-Chief
If you took a poll of building envelope and construction forensic experts, it's likely that moisture barriers would b...
April 01, 2010 | By Peter Fabris, Contributing Editor
Today’s best K-12 schools are embracing the sustainability ethos in their design and construction, and that can mean...
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JBA Consulting Engineers is one of the many architecture and engineering firms facing less work and profit than in pr...
March 01, 2010 |
HOK provides its nearly 2,000 employees, spread out in 23 offices across three continents, with a quality of work lif...
March 01, 2010 | By Jeff Yoders, Senior Associate Editor
As the need for new state, county, and municipal facilities keeps growing and funding for public building constructio...
March 01, 2010 |
Solve this problem: You’ve got an important public project that’s behind schedule, with liquidated damages of $8,000...
March 01, 2010 | By Jay W. Schneider, Senior Editor
The new three-story building at 3015 16th Street in Minot, N.D., houses the headquarters of building owner Investors...
March 01, 2010 |
2006 FreemanWhite Hnedak Bobo Group McCarthy Building Companies, Inc. Shawmut Design and Construction Walter P Moore...
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Professional development? Check Generous benefits? Check Team building? Check Sustained growth? Check Founded in 1994...
February 01, 2010 | By Jay W. Schneider, Senior Editor
Roofing industry expert Joseph Schwetz maintains that there is an important difference between what building codes re...
February 01, 2010 | By Robert Cassidy, Editor-in-Chief
Hospitals are energy gluttons. With 24/7/365 operating schedules and stringent requirements for air quality in ORs an...
February 01, 2010 | By Jay W. Schneider, Senior Editor
Two additions to a community hospital in Ohio that will double its square footage. A 12-story addition on top of an e...
February 01, 2010 | By Jeff Yoders, Senior Associate Editor
Collaboration software is going beyond just sharing files. It is being used to enable full building information model...
January 01, 2010 | Peter Fabris, Contributing Editor
Take a stroll through a new residential housing development at many U.S. military posts, and you'd be hard-pressed to...
January 01, 2010 | By C.C. Sullivan and Barbara Horwitz-Bennett
Building Teams around the world are finding that the workplace is changing radically, leading owners and tenants to r...
January 01, 2010 | By Jay W. Schneider, Senior Editor and Jeffrey Yoders, Senior Associate Editor
The 40 accomplished individuals profiled on the following pages are some of the brightest stars in the AEC universe....
January 01, 2010 | By Jeff Yoders, Senior Associate Editor
Jeff Griffiths, director of business development at San Francisco-based SAFTI FIRST, represents the manufacturer of f...
January 01, 2010 | By Robert Cassidy, Editor-in-Chief
About five or six years ago, officials at the University of California at Berkeley came to the conclusion that they n...
December 01, 2009 | By Jay W. Schneider, Senior Editor
In the market for state-of-the-art biomedical research space in Boston's Longwood Medical Area? Good news: there are...
December 01, 2009 | By Jeff Yoders, Senior Associate Editor
Italian architect Renzo Piano refers to his $294 million, 264,000-sf Modern Wing of the Art Institute of Chicago as a...
December 01, 2009 | By Thomas Sens, AIA, LEED AP
Many academic planners assumed that the coming of the Internet would lead to the decline of the library as we know it...
November 01, 2009 |
What Building Teams and Home Builders Can DoTo Confront the Pending Crisis in Water Scarcity “People can’t drink oil....
November 01, 2009 | By C.C. Sullivan and Barbara Horwitz-Bennett
Natural light is a blessing. The human eye seeks it, and there are well-documented health benefits to humans from its...
December 01, 2009 | By Robert Cassidy, Editor-in-Chief
It's big news in any city when a new billion-dollar hospital is announced. Imagine what it must be like to have not o...
