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For all the praise green buildings receive these days, many of these projects fall woefully short of expectations whe...
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In Las Vegas, the late 1980s saw the advent of the high-end, themed mega-resort, such as the Mirage and Excalibur, ac...
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If Charles C. Hook were alive today, he'd be beaming like a proud parent about what has become of the tiny North Caro...
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The quest for open, integrated building systems has occupied the collective consciousness of the design and construct...
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Built in 1963, the 32,000-sf 200 Fillmore building in Denver housed office and retail in a drab, outdated, and energy...
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Kansas City, Mo., is experiencing tremendous construction resurgence, led in great part by the Internal Revenue Servi...
October 01, 2007 | Kristin Foster, Editorial Intern
Two entrepreneurs, David and Douglas Baum of Baum Realty Group, are converting an old lamp-making factory in Chicago'...
August 01, 2002 | By Gordon Wright, Executive Editor
Tall buildings make the most lasting impression, but low-rise structures are the workhorses of the U.S. office buildi...
August 01, 2006 | By Hannah Schroder, Editorial Intern
A design team headed by RoTo Architects, Los Angeles, took a new angle on an old masonry technique to keep outdoor so...
January 01, 2003 | Daryl Delano, RBI Economist
Make no mistake: The U.S. and global economies face continued challenges in the year ahead. On balance, however, it's...
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The $65 billion U.S. multifamily construction sector is under siege. Escalating costs for building products and mater...
July 01, 2007 | By Randy Sharp, MBCSLA, MCSLA, ASLA, LEED AP
Green walls are regularly used throughout Europe and Asia, and in Tokyo they are considered more valuable than green...
April 01, 2008 | By Jeff Yoders, Associate Editor
Three-dimensional information, such as that provided by building information modeling, allows all members of the Buil...
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A multinational Building Team responsible for remaking the dilapidated headquarters of Argentina's premier daily news...
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If you've ever enjoyed succulent strawberries with your morning cereal, or crisp lettuce in your salad, or artichoke...
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High Tech High International, reconstructed inside a 1952 Navy metal foundry training facility, incorporates the very...
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From fine art and fancy food to rock concerts and skating rinks, next-generation retail developments are nothing like...
October 01, 2003 | By Gordon Wright, Executive Editor
A mammoth, nearly century-old industrial building on the banks of the Chicago River has been turned into a center for...
August 01, 2001 | By Morgan Luciana Danner, Production Editor
As singer Bob Dylan used to croon, the times they are a' changin', and the area of project management is no exception...
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The imposing Queen Anne-style structure in a remote area of New Mexico began life as a fashionable hotel built by the...
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VP, business acquisition Balfour Beatty, Fairfax, Va. EDUCATION BAE, PhD, architectural engineering, Pennsylvania Sta...
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On a recent crisp, clear spring morning, as I approached the National Museum of the American Indian from the east, th...
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VP, business development Hill International, Marlton, N.J. EDUCATION BAE, Pennsylvania State University ACCOMPLISHMEN...
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“Hotel guests are looking for an experience, and that's driving what the hospitality market needs to respond to,” say...
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Multifamily housing starts dropped to 100,000 in April—the lowest level in several decades—due to still-worsening con...
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October 01, 2003 | By Barbara Horwitz-Bennett, Contributing Editor
In the lobby of the Philadelphia Academy of Music, the lights flicker as the crowd sets out to quickly find their sea...
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High schools led the growth in K-12 construction spending during the last year with peak enrollment now in the 10th g...
