About Us
Building Design+Construction (BD+C) is an award-winning B2B media brand serving the $927 billion commercial construction market. Founded in 1959, BD+C covers 25+ building sectors across the following building categories:
- Commercial buildings — data centers, entertainment, hotel/hospitality, mixed-use, office/workplace, restaurants, retail, sports facilities
- Multifamily housing — affordable housing, apartments, condos, senior living, student housing
- Institutional buildings — airport terminals, convention centers, government, healthcare, higher education, justice facilities, K-12 schools, libraries, military, museums, performing arts centers, transit/transportation facilities
- Industrial buildings — distribution centers, manufacturing buildings, parking structures, warehouses.
Our readers (64,500+ print/digimag; 876,200 active unique users online) are the professionals responsible for designing, building, and developing/owning these buildings, including:
- architects
- building owners
- construction managers
- electrical engineers
- general contractors
- mechanical engineers
- plumbing engineers
- real estate developers
- specifiers
- structural engineers
Readers can interact with BD+C in a variety of ways:
Building Design+Construction magazine
For more than 60 years, BD+C (published six times yearly) has been a champion of innovation and technology focused on commercial, institutional, industrial, and multifamily buildings—and the professionals that design and build them. Our strength is in connecting disruptive advancement of all forms—products/materials, building science, construction methods, real estate trends, AEC technology, and AEC business innovation—across the design and construction processes and professions. The breakthroughs and innovations we cover inspire optimized design approaches, next-gen construction techniques, and new ways of thinking about the built environment and the AEC business. Subscribe here.
Annual Report series
Launched in 2023, the Annual Reports are 60-page “state of the state” reports on the multifamily and healthcare building sectors. These are digital-only “bonus” issues of the magazine that delve into the latest trends and innovations in these two building sectors. Each report includes exclusive research, multiple sector trends reports, a market outlook, an innovations roundup, an AIA-accredited continuing education course, and a live webinar featuring a panel of leading experts (averaging 700+ registrants). View Annual Reports Here.
Award and Recognition Programs
- Giants 400 Report — Fifty years running, BD+C’s Giants 400 program ranks the nation’s largest architecture, engineering, and construction firms across 25+ building sectors, six disciplines, and several specialty categories. More than 600 AEC firms participated in the 2024 Giants 400 survey, a record high. The final report includes 137 individual rankings and 8-10 building sector trends articles.
View 2024 Giants 400 Rankings.
Entry information here. - 40 Under 40 awards — Launched in 2006, this editorial program has recognized 800 AEC/O professionals. The final report is one of the highest-trafficked articles on BDCnetwork.com each year. We average 130-140 submissions per year.
Meet the 40 Under 40 Class of 2024.
Entry information here. - 75 Top Products awards - Juried by a panel of AEC professionals, this program recognizes the most innovative and useful new/updated products for the U.S. building construction market.
View the 75 Top Products winners for 2024.
Entry information here.
Blog partner program
BD+C has partnered with more than 40 AEC firms to feature their blog content on BDCnetwork.com and in the Daily 5 newsletter. View blogs here.
Editorial Newsletters
- Daily 5 newsletter — Each day, BD+C's editors assemble the latest breaking industry news, hottest trends, and most relevant research, delivered to your inbox.
- MultifamilyPro+ newsletter — This weekly newsletter delivers news, trends, innovations, and opportunities for the $125 billion multifamily housing market, including apartments, for-sale condos, senior living, and student housing.
- Subscribe to newsletters here.
Architecture + Design Master continuing education platform
Architecture + Design Master Continuing Education gives architects and design practitioners the opportunity to earn free continuing education units (CEUs) through online articles and webinars, making it easy for them to maintain their licenses.
ProConnect events
These in-person events feature one-on-one meetings between building product manufacturers and product specifiers/purchasers. Learn more.
MEET THE BD+C TEAM
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Editorial Director
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Senior Editor
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Managing Editor
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Sales
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Interested in contributing an article? BD+C welcomes bylined contributed articles for publication, provided the material is non-promotional and has not been published before. Prospective authors should send their proposals to Editorial Director David Barista ([email protected])
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