Enter today! BD+C's 75 Top Building Products for 2024

BD+C editors are now accepting submissions for the annual 75 Top Building Products awards. The winners will be featured in the November/December 2024 issue of Building Design+Construction.

Sustainable Design and Construction

3 reasons to consider green products for your next building project

75 Top Building Products

75 top building products for 2023

From a bladeless rooftop wind energy system, to a troffer light fixture with built-in continuous visible light disinfection, innovation is plentiful in Building Design+Construction's annual 75 Top Products report.

Sustainability

Researchers create building air leakage detection system using a camera in real time

Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory have developed a system that uses a camera to detect air leakage from buildings in real time.

Oct 3, 2011

Balance bunker and Phase III projects breaks ground at Mitsubishi Plant in Georgia

The facility, a modification of similar facilities used by Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Inc. (MHI) in Japan, was designed by a joint design team of engineers and architects from The Austin Company of Cleveland, Ohio, MPSA and MHI.

Sep 12, 2011

Living Buildings: Are AEC Firms up to the Challenge?

Modular Architecture > You’ve done a LEED Gold or two, maybe even a LEED Platinum. But are you and your firm ready to take on the Living Building Challenge? Think twice before you say yes.

Jul 22, 2011

Air barrier systems: Your guide to optimal performance

Expert advice on how to control wasteful air leakage in the building envelope.

Jul 22, 2011

Five award-winning modular innovations

The Modular Building Institute's 2011 Awards of Distinction highlight fresh ideas in manufactured construction projects.

Jeff Yoders | Feb 15, 2011

BIM + the Building Envelope: New BIM-enabling programs

The Winter AGC BIM Forum was held last week at the Hard Rock Hotel in San Diego, Calif. All the…

Drew Ballensky | Feb 9, 2011

Cleveland Skyscraper To Get New Skin

Cleveland’s 32-story Celebrezze Federal Building will get a new exterior wall [http://www.…

Oct 13, 2010

Community college plans new campus building

Construction is moving along on Hudson County Community College’s North Hudson Campus Center in Union City, N.J. The seven-story, 92,000-sf building will be the first higher education facility in the city.

Aug 11, 2010

Morphosis builds 'floating' house for Brad Pitt's Make It Right New Orleans foundation

Morphosis Architects, under the direction of renowned architect and UCLA professor Thom Mayne, has completed the first floating house permitted in the U.S. for Brad Pitt’s Make It Right Foundation in New Orleans.The FLOAT House is a new model for flood-safe, affordable, and sustainable housing that is designed to float securely with rising water levels.