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LOS ANGELES, February 28, 2024 - The National Association of Home Builders has inducted Manny Gonzalez, FAIA, into the Hall of Fame at the Best in American Living Awards ceremony. The event took place during the International Builders’ Show in Las Vegas, Nev.

Building Design+Construction editors bring you the top building products for the month of February. Collected across a variety of building sectors, these products save space, shield from the sun, and enhance energy efficiency.

From Twisted Sunshades to e-bike racks, here are 15 products being used in the industry today.

February 2024 Top 15 Building Products

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To accommodate the diverse needs of an ever-growing student body, Fayetteville High School rebuilt the traditional learning environment from the ground up. The combined talents of three architectural firms and the utilization of a variety of Kawneer's architectural aluminum systems led a multi-phased construction project to create a 530,000-square-foot campus. The campus is large enough to house a student population of 3,000, yet designed around the principle of multiple, autonomous small learning communities (SLCs), averaging around 700 students each.

GBBN has publicly released its Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) Calculator, a tool that helps our clients—and now the wider public—understand funding opportunities in the IRA for sustainable design.

Occupying a 2,600-square-meter, half-block lot in Seattle’s central business district, the project brief was for a 40,000-sm office building, ground floor retail, and 1,200-sm childcare center. The project is the final tower in a five-block master plan for single, Seattle-based tech leader.

“Water features” such as fountains ranked fourth for top-10 quality of life amenities in BD+C’s 2023 Multifamily Amenities report. “Outdoor pools” ranked third for top outdoor amenities (77%), and both indoor and outdoor jacuzzis were among the list of features that residents look for. Clearly, access to water is a must-have for a majority of people. 

On January 29, the owner/developer Hines stated that it had completed construction on a three-story, 92,000-sf office and residential building in East Austin, Texas. The building, known as T3 ATX Eastside, features mass timber as its primary construction material.

Ask Marty Burger to define “healthy” for K-12 schools, and he uses word pairings like “positive and uplifting,” “safe and secure,” and “clean and comfortable.”

Burger, who is CEO for the general contractor American Constructors, has been building schools in Texas for four decades. In the Lone Star State, most new public schools are delivered under CM at Risk contracts, which means that the contractor, architect, and owner are working together early on projects to guide their design. 

LPA Design Studios announced the upcoming retirement of longtime president Dan Heinfeld, who led the firm’s growth from a small, commercial development-focused architecture studio into a nation-leading integrated design practice setting new standards for performance and design excellence.