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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Patriot Place is a $350 million retail and entertainment complex that will sit on 700 acres surrounding Gillette Stad...
Firm announcements Brad Smith moves up to principal at Taylor & Associates Architects, Newport Beach, Calif. He's...
• Autodesk, Bentley sign interoperability agreement. San Rafael, Calif.-based Autodesk and Exton, Pa.-based Bentley S...
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The Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH) reported that, despite a worldwide economic downturn, 2008 wa...
Soho Beach House, a $32 million, 83,000-sf beachfront hotel/condo development in Miami Beach, broke ground last month...
The warehouse market is steady, with space demand and new supply pretty much balanced. Rental rates are rising at a 3...
PC-compatible vibration software allows professional engineers to easily determine the probable vibration characteris...
Year-end totals for 2002 show why the healthcare market is one of the healthiest in the building industry. Total heal...
Although far from robust, the preliminary government report on the nation's overall level of economic activity during...
For Union Pacific Corp., the decision to build a new headquarters adjacent to its current home in downtown Omaha, Neb...
• Orange Loft, a Chicago-based developer of networkable office management software for architecture firms, has releas...
The Collaborative for High Performance Schools is set to release a new edition of its guidelines this fall, the first...
The hotel market remains the hottest nonresidential construction segment. The value of hotel construction starts is u...
The Chicago office of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill is architect for the $89 million Joe and Teresa Lozano Long Cent...
After recording 8.1 percent growth in 2000, nonresidential construction spending increased by an estimated 3.3 percen...
The Liverpool Football Club of England's Premier League recently began construction on its new 60,000-seat stadium in...
From the contractor's perspective, the construction outlook for 2002 is mixed, with the expected timing and strength...
The 2001 projection for the construction industry remains positive. While the industry has been extremely successful...
“1” Hotel and Residences, set to open during the first half of 2010, will be New York City's first five-star green ho...
The Adam Joseph Lewis Center at Oberlin (Ohio) College incorporates a wastewater-treatment system-deemed a "living ma...
The New York office of Hellmuth, Obata and Kassabaum is designing a 130,000-sf research headquarters for ImClone Syst...
Given the headline-grabbing swoon on Wall Street and continued revelations of corporate financial misconduct, U.S. co...
Access Living, a center providing support for the disabled, moved into its new 50,000-sf headquarters. The nonprofit'...
The Peshtigo Tower, designed by architect Ralph Johnson, a design principal with Chicago's Perkins+Will, features a d...
Construction work has commenced on the first speculative industrial building in the 300-acre Agua Mansa Industrial Ce...