Kyle Pfeiffer, Salto

Advancing Healthcare: Medical Office Buildings at the Forefront of Access and Safety

This article explores the pivotal shift from traditional hospital settings to Medical Office Buildings (MOBs), focusing on how these facilities enhance patient access. Discover the key drivers of this transformation, including technological advancements, demographic trends, and a growing emphasis on integrated, patient-centered care. Learn how MOBs are not only adapting to modern healthcare demands but are also leveraging modern access control and safety innovations.

Emerging considerations in inclusive design

Design elements that consider a diverse population of users make lives better. When it comes to wayfinding, some factors will remain consistent—including accessibility and legibility.

Using Locking Hardware to Support Code-Compliant Safer School Design

Code-compliant locking hardware is essential to safer school design. The right lock can support access control for improved school safety.

HMC Architects

Tomorrow's classrooms: Designing schools for the digital age

In a world where technology’s rapid pace has reshaped how we live, work, and communicate, it should be no surprise that it’s also changing the PreK-12 education landscape.

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DLR Group | Nov 17, 2017

How to leverage historic tax credits

About 90% of the time prospective clients are not aware of historic tax credits.

Perkins and Will | Nov 16, 2017

Future-proofing higher education: Understanding generation Z

There are three driving issues behind this next generation: demographic change, behavioral change, and the power to choose.

Growing your AEC firm through an exceptional client experience

Many small AEC firms don’t feel they have the time to focus and create clear marketing messages.

Stantec | Nov 15, 2017

Resilient design for waterfront buildings: a real estate win-win in vulnerable area

The developer sees resilient developments achieving top-of-market pricing, faster leasing, higher renewal, and higher occupancy rates.

“Till death do us part”: Preventing a facade and HVAC divorce when it comes to air barrier performance

Liberty Building Forensics Group (LBFG) has produced an e-book that speaks directly to the most common air barrier-related factors causing mold and moisture problems in hot and humid climates.

Hinge | Nov 14, 2017

12 differences between average and high-growth firms

We’ve developed a pretty good understanding of what high-growth firms do differently from their average-growth peers.

CallisonRTKL | Nov 10, 2017

The hotel of the future has just the right amount of tech

CallisonRTKL’s recent survey helps shed some light on how the hotel of the future might strike a balance between tech and the human touch.

HMC Architects | Nov 9, 2017

Revolutionizing school design with virtual reality

Being fully immersed into a space allows both architects and non-architects to understand and experience a project’s size, scale, scope, and learning environment.

3 ways to protect your firm from cyber threats

While AEC firms may not have the vast quantity of financial information that certain other types of businesses do, the confidential and sensitive information your firm has can be just as damaging to your clients if it gets into the wrong hands.

Alfond Inn brings Mediterranean charm near Disney World

The inn’s “jeweled center” consists of a 39-foot domed skylight across the conservatory.

BD+C Staff | Nov 6, 2017

How to start a negotiation: Begin as you mean to continue

How you start a negotiation often will determine where you end up, writes negotiation and mediation expert Brenda Radmacher.

DLR Group | Nov 3, 2017

The reality of integrated design

Nearly every design firm will tell an owner that they use integrated design, working hand-in-hand with its consultants. But survey any collective group of consultant firms and you will always have differences in mission, goals, priorities, and work processes, compared to one firm with the majority of services under one roof.