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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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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The buildings in Block C serve as the gateway to CityCenter. This “neighborhood” runs parallel to Las Vegas Boulevard...
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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...
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Architects, structural engineers, facility managers and contractors working with masonry structures would do well to...
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Stroll through the heart of virtually any major city in the U.S. and you'll see a slew of new condominium development...
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At 4.2 million sf, Chicago's Merchandise Mart is the largest commercial building in the U.S. and one of the biggest m...
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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...
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For decades, the growing needs of Zurich University were met by structures erected on the outskirts of the city. In r...
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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...
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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...
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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...
February 01, 2004 | By Dave Barista, Associate Editor
Insulated concrete forms, developed in the mid-1960s as a method for forming more energy-efficient concrete foundatio...
January 01, 2009 |
Principal, regional director forcentral Texas Walter P Moore, Houston EDUCATION BS, Texas A&M University MS, Univ...
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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...
