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Baptist Health Care’s new $650 million healthcare complex opened recently in Pensacola, Fla. Featuring a 10-story, 268-bed hospital, the project “represents the single-largest investment in the healthcare history of northwest Florida,” said Gresham Smith project executive Robert “Skip” Yauger, AIA, LEED AP.

Despite the best efforts of city governments and their transportation departments, transit-oriented-development projects often unintentionally burden existing residents and small businesses in the area. The benefits that come along with TODs – new businesses, restaurants, retail, public amenities, and neighborhood services – also attract new residents to the area, leading to gentrification. With demand, rents and property values increase, and the people who called the neighborhood home before the infrastructure improvements took place are priced out.

The art of flight has captivated humans since the Wright Brothers made history with their first powered flight in 1903, changing our world forever. Over the next century, the intermingling of innovation and aspiration propelled the aviation industry forward into a dynamic era of transformation and growth.

Join the Building Design+Construction and Multifamily Pro+ editorial team for this live webinar on key trends and innovations in the $110 billion U.S. multifamily housing market. This free one-hour webinar will take place Wednesday, December 6, 1:00 pm eastern.

A trio of multifamily design and construction experts will present their latest projects, trends, innovations, and data/research on the three primary multifamily sub-sectors: rental housing, senior living, and student housing.

This webinar is worth 1.0 AIA LU/HSW or 1.0 PDH.

Developers and owners can’t build data centers fast enough. Forecasts about demand globally and in North America range from steady to exuberant. And AEC firms in this sector continue to reap the benefits of this growth.

Talk of office-to-residential conversions are everywhere these days. But these conversions aren’t as simple as they may seem—there are many engineering opportunities and challenges involved, and developers will be well served by having a full-service team in place before they begin.  

In this latest blog in IMEG’s series on the topic, I talked with our technology, acoustics, and lighting experts about issues to review in the initial stages, and how those disciplines can impact a successful office to residential conversion.

Global real estate companies Lendlease and Ivanhoé Cambridge recently announced the topping-out of FORUM, a nine-story, 350,000-sf life sciences building in Boston.

DLR Group, a 100% employee-owned integrated design firm, is expanding its presence in the Southeast with the opening of an office in downtown Nashville, Tenn. This expansion aligns with the firm’s commitment to meet the diverse design needs of existing education, government, hospitality, sports, and workplace clients throughout the entire state.

Amazon has completed construction of the first two buildings of its second headquarters, located in Arlington, Va. The all-electric structures, featuring low carbon concrete and mass timber, help further the company’s commitment to achieving net zero carbon emissions by 2040 and 100% renewable energy consumption by 2030.