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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Forty-six-year-old KJWW Engineering Consultants of Rock Island, Ill., recently hit the 500-employee milestone, but ba...
April 01, 2006 | By Jay W. Schneider, Senior Editor
The typical hotel business guest has a laptop, a BlackBerry, a cell phone, an iPod, and a disdain for boring hotels d...
May 01, 2008 | By Dave Barista, Managing Editor
Structural insulated panels, commonly referred to as SIPs, have been used in the construction of single-family homes...
October 01, 2003 | By Larry Flynn, Senior Editor
Originally constructed in 1904 as the training facility for the U.S. men's Olympic team, the University of Chicago's...
March 01, 2009 | By Jerry Yudelson, PE, MBA, LEED AP
Although North American green building practices and technology have come a long way in the past 15 years, it's my op...
May 01, 2004 | By Larry Flynn, Senior Editor
For Judge Walter J. Gex III, the completion last August of the Dan M. Russell, Jr. United States Courthouse complex i...
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In exclusive interviews with Building Design+Construction, experts at the top three hospitality design firms (combine...
December 01, 2000 | By Larry Flynn, Senior Editor
What images are evoked by the words "government building"? Some might think of grand, historic symbols such as the U....
June 01, 2004 | By Mindi Zissman, Products Editor
In 1963, sixteen-year-old Deanie Parker became the second employee at Stax Records, the famed Memphis, Tenn., record...
December 01, 2002 | By Gordon Wright, Executive Editor
A former governor's quest for a memorial to commemorate the history and technological contributions of his state has...
June 01, 2007 | By Jay W. Schneider, Senior Editor
In 1995, the city of New Haven, Conn., launched a program to build five new schools and renovate and upgrade seven ot...
February 01, 2002 | By Gordon Wright, Editor
Few events are as awesome as witnessing a lightning strike or seeing the damage it can produce. Nevertheless, when th...
January 01, 2009 |
President Cass Sowatsky Chapman + Associates, San Diego EDUCATION BSArch, University of Michigan PROFESSIONAL CREDENT...
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Principal, national corporate design practice leader DLR Group, Chicago EDUCATION BS, University of Nebraska PROFESSI...
February 01, 2002 | By Jack Klein
Built-up roofing (BUR), which consists of multiple plies of membranes soaked with asphalt or coal tar pitch, has exis...
April 01, 2003 | By Gordon Wright, Executive Editor
The design of the 5.3 million-sq.-ft. passenger terminal for South Korea's newest airport traces its origins 6,500 mi...
March 01, 2009 |
Despite a besieged AEC industry, DES Architects + Engineers of Redwood City, Calif., sees plenty of opportunity out t...
May 01, 2005 | Staff
Castcon Stone is one of those great family-run businesses that embody the American Dream. The Saxonburg, Pa., company...
September 01, 2006 | By Jeff Yoders, Associate Editor
Former Secretary of the Treasury Paul H. O'Neill–whose signature is probably still on many of the bills in your walle...
March 01, 2006 | Staff
"There are companies that build buildings just to seat people," says Andrew Garnar-Wortzel. "They don't take into acc...
September 01, 2002 | By W. Gene Corley
Having spent a good part of my career investigating structural failures, I've seen spectacular damage on building sit...
April 01, 2007 | By Jay W. Schneider, Senior Editor
The Building Team responsible for Des Moines Central Library embraced the notion of designing a simple library in the...
January 01, 2009 |
Associate principal AECOM Design, Shanghai, China EDUCATION BLArch, Tongji University MArch, University of Arizona PR...
February 01, 2003 | Staff
Of all major building projects, hospitals are unique, not just for their complexity — the vast amounts of high-tech e...
May 01, 2008 |
Since the first application of base isolators some 23 years ago on a legal services center in Rancho Cucamonga, Calif...
May 01, 2006 | By Jay W. Schneider, Senior Editor
The Missouri Department of Natural Resources takes its role as the state's environmental steward seriously, so when i...
October 01, 2008 |
The Girl Scouts of San Jacinto Council Program Place is the headquarters for the largest Girl Scout Council in the U....
January 01, 2009 |
SVP, national director of technical services Tishman Construction Corporation, New York, N.Y. EDUCATION BS, Northwest...
August 01, 2008 | By Sam Oches, Editorial Intern
The International Rescue Committee is a humanitarian organization dedicated to providing relief to victims of violenc...
August 01, 2008 | By Jeff Yoders, Senior Associate Editor
When the Wynn Resort replaced the Stardust Casino Hotel on the Strip in April 2005, longtime Las Vegas observers aske...
