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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Industry Research | April 09, 2021 |
John Caulfield, Senior Editor
BD+C’s first-ever owners’ survey finds them focused on improving buildings’ performance for higher investment returns.
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The 9/11 terrorist attacks had an immediate impact on Kansas City International Airport's $258 million terminal impro...
August 11, 2010 | By Rob McManamy, Editor-in-chief
Seven months after terror took the form of a hijacked jetliner and ripped into the side of the Pentagon, an army of c...
September 01, 2009 |
Built in 1875 to serve as the art gallery for the Centennial International Exhibition in Fairmount Park, Memorial Hal...
October 01, 2007 | Dave Barista, Managing Editor
One of the first LEED Platinum buildings in the nation and only the third U.S. building designed to LEED standards, t...
June 01, 2001 | By Dave Barista, Associate Editor
When Urban Land Interests (ULI) purchased its first building on Block 89 in 1986 — a vacant J.C. Penney department st...
November 01, 2007 | By Peter Fabris, Contributing Editor
In August 1995, having taken the helm of a university with a falling enrollment, a dire balance sheet, and a murky fu...
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Something special is happening along San Francisco's southeast waterfront. Just south of PacBell Park, home to baseba...
May 01, 2007 | Peter Fabris, Contributing Editor
At $3.4 billion in revenues last year, Bovis Lend Lease is one of the largest construction management firms and gener...
April 01, 2001 | By Morgan Luciana Danner, Production Editor
It was a race against time for Kentucky's Lexington-Fayette Urban County Government. Under a federal court order to r...
October 01, 2007 | By Dave Barista, Managing Editor
Have you figured out what the mystery building is? Hint: It has a concrete frame and sloped floors. Still not sure? O...
June 01, 2002 | By Gordon Wright, Executive Editor
The now-deflated dot-com boom left an imprint on office environments by making technology an increasingly accepted an...
August 01, 2005 | By Jeff Yoders, Associate Editor
After being awarded the 2002 Winter Olympic Games, Salt Lake City organizers needed more than 800 support buildings f...
May 01, 2007 | Maggie Koerth-Baker, Contributing Editor
All too often, architects, designers, and construction professionals find themselves working for a company whose phil...
June 01, 2001 | By Elyse Umlauf-Garneau
The American subsidiary of Royal Ahold, a Dutch-based retailing giant, wanted to empower its employees to be "ahead o...
December 01, 2007 |
Roof board meets stiffened FM standards In 2006, Factory Mutual made significant changes to its testing standards for...
March 01, 2008 | By Jay W. Schneider, Senior Editor
Kaiser Permanente’s two new California hospitals, in Antioch and Modesto, were already well into schematic design whe...
July 01, 2009 |
The value of hotel starts has averaged under $500 million over the last six months, less than half of the development...
September 01, 2006 | By Jay W. Schneider, Senior Editor
The nation's colleges and universities have a decade until they welcome the Class of 2020 to campus. That's just 10 y...
October 01, 2001 | By Dave Barista, Associate Editor
Set in the middle of Boston's Fenway district, the mammoth, 1.5 million-sq.-ft. Sears, Roebuck and Co. warehouse and...
September 01, 2009 |
Renovations to Seattle's historic Garfield High School focused mainly on restoring the 85-year-old building's faded b...
February 01, 2005 | By Larry Flynn, Senior Editor
In recent years, advances in information technology have enabled nurses to move away from traditional centralized pap...
February 01, 2005 | By Larry Flynn, Senior Editor
If you were among the 11 million tourists to visit Baltimore this past year, chances are you took in at least one of...
January 01, 2008 |
Donald J. Anderson, Jr., S8 Commercial and infrastructure division manager Fugro Consultants LP Houston Jill Bergman,...
January 01, 2007 | Robert Cassidy
Have you ever fallen in love with one of your projects? Truly, deeply in love? Larry Speck has. “Halfway through cons...
March 01, 2008 |
Forty-six-year-old KJWW Engineering Consultants of Rock Island, Ill., recently hit the 500-employee milestone, but ba...
April 01, 2006 | By Jay W. Schneider, Senior Editor
The typical hotel business guest has a laptop, a BlackBerry, a cell phone, an iPod, and a disdain for boring hotels d...
May 01, 2008 | By Dave Barista, Managing Editor
Structural insulated panels, commonly referred to as SIPs, have been used in the construction of single-family homes...
October 01, 2003 | By Larry Flynn, Senior Editor
Originally constructed in 1904 as the training facility for the U.S. men's Olympic team, the University of Chicago's...
March 01, 2009 | By Jerry Yudelson, PE, MBA, LEED AP
Although North American green building practices and technology have come a long way in the past 15 years, it's my op...
May 01, 2004 | By Larry Flynn, Senior Editor
For Judge Walter J. Gex III, the completion last August of the Dan M. Russell, Jr. United States Courthouse complex i...
