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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Seven years ago, officials at Chicago's Northwestern Memorial Hospital took a hard look at Prentice Women's Hospital,...
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Pop quiz: Can you name the largest steel-framed project currently under construction in the U.S.? Answer: It’s the 52...
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Until recently, daylighting was one of the most misunderstood sustainable building product categories, mostly because...
October 01, 2002 | By Larry Flynn, Senior Editor
When it opened on the Boardwalk in 1929, the Atlantic City Convention Hall was hailed as the world's largest clear-sp...
May 01, 2005 | Staff
Most students entering the four-story atrium of the Lillis Business Complex at University of Oregon in Eugene probabl...
August 01, 2007 | By Kristin Foster, Editorial Intern
Easy DVD rentals, sophisticated home theater systems, and outrageous ticket prices ($11 for an adult general admissio...
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Ever since founding Ingenhoven Architects in 1985, at age 25, Christoph Ingenhoven has been guided by the philosophy...
August 01, 2007 | By Dave Barista, Managing Editor
All brick walls, old and new, are susceptible to deterioration. Exposure to harsh weather, poor construction, and lac...
June 01, 2004 | By Gordon Wright, Executive Editor
For more than a half century, starting in 1924, millions of visitors toured Ford Motor Co.'s Rouge manufacturing faci...
June 01, 2003 | By Dave Barista, Associate Editor
Over the last decade, a fundamental shift in the national building codes has changed the landscape of seismic design....
August 14, 2009 | By Jay W. Schneider, Senior Editor
Imagine this scenario: You're planning a $32.9 million project involving 112,000 sf of new construction and renovatio...
August 01, 2008 | By Jay W. Schneider, Senior Editor
The buildings in Block C serve as the gateway to CityCenter. This “neighborhood” runs parallel to Las Vegas Boulevard...
July 01, 2003 | By Larry Flynn, Senior Editor
Given the cyclical nature of building construction, riding out a down market is nothing new to most of the 75 contrac...
July 01, 2005 | By Raj Gupta, P.E., LEED AP, and Kurt Karnatz, P.E., LEED AP, CEM
As a key element in the design of sustainable office facilities, underfloor air distribution (UFAD) systems provide L...
October 01, 2008 | By Jay W. Schneider, Senior Editor
Rouss Hall, a historic 24,000-sf building designed by Stanford White, served as the home of the University of Virgini...
August 01, 2008 | By Jay W. Schneider, Senior Editor
It's early June, in Las Vegas, which means it's very hot, and I am coming to the end of a hardhat tour of the $9.2 bi...
November 01, 2000 | By Clayford T. Grimm
Architects, structural engineers, facility managers and contractors working with masonry structures would do well to...
January 01, 2006 | By Dave Barista, Assistant Managing Editor
Stroll through the heart of virtually any major city in the U.S. and you'll see a slew of new condominium development...
October 01, 2007 | Dave Barista, Managing Editor
At 4.2 million sf, Chicago's Merchandise Mart is the largest commercial building in the U.S. and one of the biggest m...
October 01, 2003 | By Mindi Zissman, Products Editor
Following tangled legal disputes and competing development proposals that led to 25 years of neglect, the Old Albuque...
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The Joule Hotel in Dallas, designed by local firm Coburn & Smith, was constructed in 1927 as the Dallas National...
August 01, 2005 | Staff
For decades, the growing needs of Zurich University were met by structures erected on the outskirts of the city. In r...
January 01, 2009 |
Principal Pfeiffer Partners Architects, Los Angeles EDUCATION BArch, University of California, Berkeley MArch, Univer...
December 01, 2002 | By Gordon Wright, Executive Editor
Since late last year, Milwaukee — a city more renowned for beer and brats than for culture — has been basking in the...
October 01, 2003 | By Larry Flynn, Senior Editor
In the minds of many Americans, the civil rights movement died on April 4, 1968, when a shot rang out from a bathroom...
May 01, 2008 | By Robert Cassidy, Editor-in-Chief
It's one thing to build a new hospital on a nice, clean, unobstructed site. It's quite another to consolidate two hea...
September 01, 2007 | By Jay W. Schneider, Senior Editor
The hope was that a complete restoration and modernization would bring life back to three neoclassic beauties that fo...
October 01, 2006 | Maggie Koerth-Baker
Opened in 1933, the observation deck at Rockefeller Center was designed to evoke the elegant promenades found on the...
September 01, 2005 | By Charles Rathmann, Contributing Editor
Ever since an anthrax attack shut down the U.S. House of Representatives in October 2001, state public health laborat...
November 01, 2000 | By Dave Barista , Associate Editor , and Jack Klein
With the growth of the United States Green Building Council's Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) ce...
