20 years later: A first responder reflects on 9/11
Stantec engineer Jeff Crews shares his experience as a first responder at Ground Zero following the September 11 terrorist attacks.
sponsored John Timmerman
The Benefits of Investing in ESG Sustainable Business Practices
Environmental, social and governance (ESG) practices are a hot topic in the corporate world. Here’s why you should prioritize them in your business.
Stantec
Passports to a net-zero carbon future
How materials passports can help designers achieve social value and net-zero carbon.
Perkins and Will
The great re-shuffle & re-think
In this new hybrid environment in which we cater to how our employees work best, how will we manage new hybrid work practices and etiquette?
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Stantec | Aug 25, 2021
The mall of the future: Less retail, more content
For the mall to survive, it will need to embrace nontraditional uses and “messy vitality.” Here’s how to do it.
HOK | Aug 25, 2021
Lab design strategies for renovations and adaptive reuse
Lab design experts in HOK’s Science + Technology group outline the challenges organizations must understand before renovating a lab or converting an existing building into research space.
sponsored | | Aug 24, 2021
What’s in a color trend?
Trend forecasting is both science and art. As an organization that releases annual color trend forecasts, global trend manager, Kiki Redhead, shares an inside look at predicting colors of the future.
HDR | Aug 20, 2021
Prioritizing children’s perspectives with play-based design charrettes
Every effort is made to assure that captured insights and observations are authentically from the children.
sponsored | John Timmerman | Aug 20, 2021
Measuring Sustainability: Determine Where You Stand and What to Do Next
Measuring sustainability operations is necessary to prove your sustainable facilities practices. To measure your success, there are two key factors you need.
NBBJ | Aug 18, 2021
20 years after developing the first open core hospital design here is what the firm has learned
Hospitals have traditionally used a “racetrack” layout, which accommodates patient rooms around the exterior and situates work areas and offstage functions in a central block.
SmithGroup | Aug 10, 2021
Retail reset: The future of shopping malls
Developers and design partners are coming together to reimagine how malls can create a new generation of mixed-use opportunities.
Sasaki | Aug 6, 2021
Microclimates and community
The very local micro-climate has an oversized impact on user comfort in a specific place.
GBBN Insights | Aug 4, 2021
When the hospital becomes home
Patients and their loved ones need a variety of meaningful spaces outside the patient room to enhance feelings of optimism and control.
sponsored | Ted Goldstein, Atlas Tube | Jun 17, 2021
Taking HSS to New Heights With Shuriken
HSS have long been popular for low-rise construction thanks to the material’s excellent strength-to-weight ratio. But in mid- and high-rise construction, field-welded splices have limited HSS adoption. Fortunately, those days are over thanks to Shuriken™, which lets you make simple bolted splices with standard nuts and bolts.
sponsored | Sherwin-Williams Coil Coatings | Jun 10, 2021
Curating Coil & Extrusion Color Collections for Architectural Projects
Across the entire Sherwin-Williams business, there is an internal ecosystem of color experts who lead teams on developing colors and color spaces for different markets and products,
NBBJ | Jun 8, 2021
As many storefronts sit empty, 3 opportunities to rethink the ground floor of buildings
The vitality of ground level commercial space is about much more than the future of retail.
Clark Nexsen | Jun 3, 2021
What's next for workplace design?
Balancing personal space and the need for collaboration.
