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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When the Steelcase furniture manufacturing company decided to build a new wood furniture facility in nearby Dutton, M...
April 01, 2008 | By Jay W. Schneider, Senior Editor
A pendant light fixture trained on the building's reception desk dims as clouds pass overhead, then brightens again i...
May 01, 2001 | By Dave Barista, Associate Editor
As gas and electricity costs continue to skyrocket, building owners and facility managers are determined more than ev...
June 01, 2008 | By Jeff Yoders, Senior Associate Editor
In Nebraska BIM users share tricks of the trade at RUGON. In Kansas City they discuss Revit at KCrevit. In Toronto Ar...
August 01, 2004 | By Matthew Phair, Contributing Editor
Most building projects exist in three versions: the building that was designed, the building that was built, and the...
January 01, 2009 |
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Sustainable building trends are gaining steam, even in the current economic downturn. More than five billion square f...
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The nation's largest architecture, engineering, and construction companies are on the BIM bandwagon in a big way, acc...
June 01, 2002 | By Dave Barista, Associate Editor
What do you get when you cross an elevator with an escalator? An inclinator, of course. These elevator cabs ascend an...
December 01, 2001 | By Barbara Horwitz
The senior housing market can be compared with a train, says developer Stephen Wright: "We can see the freight train...
December 01, 2001 | By Gordon Wright, Editor
The staggered-truss structural system incorporating steel trusses was developed by the Massachusetts Institute of Tec...
February 01, 2005 | By Gordon Wright, Executive Editor
Digital systems have become a fundamental component of healthcare design and construction, providing remarkable benef...
February 26, 2007 | By Jeff Yoders, Associate Editor
The light-emitting diode (LED) has come a long way and hasn't even reached its 45th birthday. Long the preferred ligh...
February 01, 2004 | By Gordon Wright, Executive Editor
The Building Team for the new Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta credits a two-page document with being one of the most...
October 01, 2008 | By Dave Barista, Managing Editor
While the Bird's Nest and Water Cube captured all the TV coverage during the Beijing Olympics in August, the Rem Kool...
October 01, 2006 | Staff
The Robert F. Kennedy Main Justice Building houses the U.S. Attorney General's office, the Justice Department headqua...
July 01, 2001 | Staff
While RTKL is practically synonymous with retail architecture, David C. Hudson, president of the Baltimore-based A/E...
July 01, 2002 | Mindi Zissman
In an effort to redefine the 74-year-old firm, Syska Hennessy Group changed its name this year to reflect a new, "ful...
December 01, 2001 | By Dave Barista, Associate Editor
Aug. 28, 1998, was a tragic day for the congregation of Manhattan's Central Synagogue, one of New York City's oldest...
December 01, 2004 | By Gordon Wright, Executive Editor
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...
September 01, 2003 | By Dave Barista, Associate Editor
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...
