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.
read more February 01, 2003 | Staff
The Billy Graham Evangelistic Association will build a 250,000-sq.-ft. headquarters in Charlotte, N.C., that will inc...
April 01, 2001 |
Workstation products, ionizers, test equipment and containers are a few of the products listed in this static-control...
August 01, 2007 | Staff
Patriot Place is a $350 million retail and entertainment complex that will sit on 700 acres surrounding Gillette Stad...
September 01, 2003 | By Staff
Firm announcements Brad Smith moves up to principal at Taylor & Associates Architects, Newport Beach, Calif. He's...
August 01, 2008 |
• Autodesk, Bentley sign interoperability agreement. San Rafael, Calif.-based Autodesk and Exton, Pa.-based Bentley S...
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Construction work has commenced on the first three of four new energy-efficient facilities for the U.S. Citizenship a...
February 01, 2009 |
The Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH) reported that, despite a worldwide economic downturn, 2008 wa...
November 01, 2007 |
Soho Beach House, a $32 million, 83,000-sf beachfront hotel/condo development in Miami Beach, broke ground last month...
November 01, 2007 | By Jim Haughey, BD+C Economist
The warehouse market is steady, with space demand and new supply pretty much balanced. Rental rates are rising at a 3...
February 01, 2001 |
PC-compatible vibration software allows professional engineers to easily determine the probable vibration characteris...
March 01, 2003 | Staff
Year-end totals for 2002 show why the healthcare market is one of the healthiest in the building industry. Total heal...
April 01, 2002 | By Daryl Delano, RBI Economist
Although far from robust, the preliminary government report on the nation's overall level of economic activity during...
March 01, 2002 | By Dave Barista, Associate Editor
For Union Pacific Corp., the decision to build a new headquarters adjacent to its current home in downtown Omaha, Neb...
May 01, 2007 | Staff
• Orange Loft, a Chicago-based developer of networkable office management software for architecture firms, has releas...
May 02, 2008 |
The Collaborative for High Performance Schools is set to release a new edition of its guidelines this fall, the first...
October 01, 2006 | By Jim Haughey, Director, Research and Analytics, Reed Construction Data
The hotel market remains the hottest nonresidential construction segment. The value of hotel construction starts is u...
July 01, 2001 | Staff
The Chicago office of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill is architect for the $89 million Joe and Teresa Lozano Long Cent...
June 01, 2002 | By Daryl Delano, Reed Business Information Economist
After recording 8.1 percent growth in 2000, nonresidential construction spending increased by an estimated 3.3 percen...
February 01, 2008 |
The Liverpool Football Club of England's Premier League recently began construction on its new 60,000-seat stadium in...
January 01, 2002 | Staff
From the contractor's perspective, the construction outlook for 2002 is mixed, with the expected timing and strength...
January 01, 2001 | Stephen E. Sandherr,
executive vice president and CEO, Associated General Contractors of America
The 2001 projection for the construction industry remains positive. While the industry has been extremely successful...
June 02, 2007 | Jeff Yoders, Associate Editor
“1” Hotel and Residences, set to open during the first half of 2010, will be New York City's first five-star green ho...
April 01, 2001 |
The Adam Joseph Lewis Center at Oberlin (Ohio) College incorporates a wastewater-treatment system-deemed a "living ma...
February 01, 2006 | Staff
The New York office of Hellmuth, Obata and Kassabaum is designing a 130,000-sf research headquarters for ImClone Syst...
September 01, 2002 | By Daryl Delano, Reed Business Information Economist
Given the headline-grabbing swoon on Wall Street and continued revelations of corporate financial misconduct, U.S. co...
October 01, 2007 |
Access Living, a center providing support for the disabled, moved into its new 50,000-sf headquarters. The nonprofit'...
October 01, 2007 |
The Peshtigo Tower, designed by architect Ralph Johnson, a design principal with Chicago's Perkins+Will, features a d...
July 01, 2005 | By Merritt Watts, Editorial Intern
Construction work has commenced on the first speculative industrial building in the 300-acre Agua Mansa Industrial Ce...
