Green | April 19, 2017 | BD+C Staff Elizabeth Heider, Chief Sustainability Officer, Skanska USA
When you consider that 90% of our time is spent in buildings, how these environments can contribute to workplace productivity, health, and wellness is...
Oriole Park at Camden Yards. Photo: Wally Gobetz/Creative Commons
Major League Baseball doesn't have official stadium design guidelines. Skanska's Tom Tingle has three ways the league can make the game safer for fans...
The Raleigh (N.C.) Convention Center was designed and built with wireless infrastructure to support tech-heavy events. Image: Skanska
Today's convention centers require more flexible spaces, the ability to blend virtual and in-person events, and meaningful sustainability, writes Skan...
To deliver a replacement terminal at Houston's George Bush Intercontinental Airport, Skanska developed a multi-phased approach centered on taking as few of the existing aircraft gates out of service as possible. Image courtesy Skanska
Airports | April 21, 2015 | Constructive Thinking Blog MacAdam Glinn, LEED AP
Upgrades to aviation infrastructure have not kept pace with the increase in airport traffic or even at a level sufficient to accommodate the life cycl...
Following three weeks of intense competition between nine firms participating in Skanska's hackathon, Pickard Chilton of New Haven, Conn., was selected to serve as the design architect for the 2&U project in Seattle. Photo courtesy Skanska
Searching for a nimble, collaborative design firm for its 2&U tower project in Seattle, the construction giant ditches the traditional RFQ/RFP pro...
Photo courtesy Skanska USA
PDFs are the de facto format for digital construction documentation. Yet, there is no set standard for how to produce PDFs for a project, writes Skans...
Phase one of UC Merceds construction comprises 700,000 sf of new buildings on 103 acres surrounded by a nature preserve the university set aside when it bought the land. Photo: Hans Marsen
Minimizing lifecycle costs and transferring risk to the private sector are among the benefits to applying the P3 project delivery model on public buil...
Safety, consumer demand, and the new economics of flight are three of the major factors shaping how airlines and airport officials are approaching the...
More and more facility owners are seeing the benefits that building information modeling can bring to their projects, according to a new McGraw Hill C...
In New Orleans, a National Guard helicopter helps close a breach in a canal during Hurricane Katrina, which caused more than $150 billion in damage. Photo: courtesy Skanska
Moving critical elements to higher ground and designing for longer lifespans are just some of the ways cities and governments can make infrastructure...
In honor of Safety Week, Skanska put together this nifty infographic on how to prevent deadly harm in construction.
Photo: renjith krishnan via FreeDigitalPhotos.net
Beyond reducing the number of uninsured Americans, the Affordable Care Act is driving new types of healthcare facilities, especially patient-centered...
Using the iAuditor app, one of our Skanska teams developed electronic reports that make safety inspections more efficient, and that make it easier to...
