Building Team
Rich wood tones in the Obeya Room Division System from OFS are unique, warming up an office space and making it feel more like home.
Interior architect Mary Bartlett selects her favorite products and systems from the 2019 NeoCon s...
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A curtain wall shadow box is a spandrel assembly consisting of vision glass at the building exter...
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Unity Temple, Chicago. Photo: James Caulfield, courtesy Frank Lloyd Wright Trust
The UNESCO designation includes signature works designed by Wright during the first half of the 2...
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Mary-Jean Eastman, FAIA, Vice Chair of Perkins Eastman and Managing Principal of its New York City studio, will share lessons and takeaways from her journey building a global design giant. Photo courtesy Perkins Eastman
Two of Perkins Eastman’s firm leaders—Mary-Jean Eastman, FAIA, Vice Chair and Managing Principal...
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Rendering courtesy Foster + Partners
The project will sit on the banks of the Harlem River in Sherman Creek Park.
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The program offers nationally recognized, portable construction trade credentials.
Modular carries a potential cost savings of up to 20%, but there is a risk of up to a 10% loss if delivery or material costs spike, the report says.
Modular construction can deliver projects 20% to 50% faster than traditional methods and drastica...
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Lamar Johnson Collaborative and BatesForum were the designers on Fulton West in Chicago. Image: Courtesy of Clayco
Lamar Johnson Collaborative adds BatesForum.
Turner workers position top beam for a new building on the campus of Middle Tennessee State University. Image: Turner Construction
The building includes a “command center” for training students to interact with emergency personn...
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Municipal facilities must strike a delicate balance between openness and security.
Pictured: Klein A45, Catskill Mountains, New York, by Bjarke Ingels Group. This prototype mountainside cabin is entirely customizable for homeowners to purchase, tailor, and have the tiny house built within 4-6 months in any location, for any purpose. Photo: Matthew Carbone
Bjarke Ingels Group's prototype mountainside cabin and Fieldwork's forest pedestrian bridges are...
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Vince DiPofi will be SSOE Group's President and CEO in December. He currently has executive level oversight over several of the firm's business units. Image: SSOE
Vince DiPofi has played a pivotal role in the firm’s business development strategies.
A team from the Savannah College of Arts & Design in Georgia came up with myriad abstract conceptions—including a few informed by its equestrian department—to develop a new hard hat design that Clayco is now in the process of producing. Image: Clayco
Clayco worked with a Georgia college to design a helmet with greater comfort and adaptability....
For its master plan of the 43-acre, transit-oriented Cambridge Crossing redevelopment in Boston, which eventually will include 4.5 million sf of vertical construction, CBT Architects took into account what that area’s long-term traffic and parking needs might be. (The master plan included 97 dedicated bike lanes.) Image courtesy CBT Architects.
The sharing economy puts a different spin on new construction and building operations.
The Kinesiology and Athletic Complex at Orange Coast College is one of many projects that C.W. Driver has started or completed in California, its home state. Image: courtesy of C.W. Driver
C.W. Driver succeeds by sticking to core markets and practices.
Common area at AVA DoBro, a 30-story, 500-unit apartment community in Downtown Brooklyn by AvalonBay Communities. Photo: Alan Schindler for AvalonBay Communities, Inc.
The nation's fourth-largest owner of apartments holds more than 85,000 apartments in 291 communit...
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Colonizing Mars is an exciting possibility in the not-too-distant future, and architects will pla...
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ABC members increased training spending 45% from 2013, according to a new report.
Turner Construction is using this card to summarize its program. The "Green" graphic represents how the contractor is elevating what green means, and the three pillars of its program. Image: Turner Construction
The company targets a 50% cut in greenhouse gas emissions and water use from construction activit...
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Skender, a design, construction, and manufacturing firm, will use Z Modular’s self-bracing structural VectorBloc system to fabricate building components. Photos courtesy Skender and Z Modular
Factory to open soon on the southwest side of Chicago.
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Exacerbating the AEC talent shortage is the coming mass exodus of baby boomers as they reach reti...
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The lab will identify, test, and scale new technologies to help advance the construction industry...
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The bill would attract as much as $125 billion investment for buildings, infrastructure.
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As more women enter male-dominated fields, gear supply has not kept up with demand.
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Government agencies gain by evaluating beyond price, according to a new Dodge survey of governmen...
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The Decennial Group, a joint venture of two leading real estate developers, is investing in Opportunity Zones to take advantage of new tax incentives. Image: Decennial Group
Decennial Group says it’s looking at 250 potential projects, primarily in America’s heartland and...
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A look at six products and companies incubated by AEC firms for commercial sale.
Raymond Pan, an award winning archtect and urban planner, is leading the design lab initiative at HMC Architects. Image: HMC Architects
The goal is for project team members to collaborate earlier to inspire innovation.
The Seattle restaurant Willmott's Ghost is inside Amazon Spheres, the three-domed complex that is equal parts workspace and botanical garden. Image: Aaron Leitz
The Seattle eatery nests inside the conservatories on Amazon’s massive campus.
