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A growing number of businesses are outsourcing their vital IT infrastructure to mega-co-location facilities like the newly built 550,000-sf, 62MW Aligned Energy Phoenix data center. The energy-efficient facility is designed to achieve an annualized power usage effectiveness (PUE) rating of 1.15. Courtesy of Aligned Energy.
Look for mission-critical construction to double in the next few years.
Perkins+Will has written the design controls for the redevelopment of a 28-acre surface parking lot in San Francisco into a mixed-use waterfront community called Mission Rock, which would have a mesa running through it to handle sea levels that are projected to rise as high as 66 inches by 2100, compared to 24 inches today. Courtesy Perkins+Will.
Projects like these, where resilience is central to their design and construction, are becoming m...
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The Kolos Data Center, 225 kilometers north of the Arctic Circle. Rendering courtesy of HDR.
Turner Construction Co., Holder Construction, and DPR Constrcution top BD+C’s ranking of...
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Syska Hennessy Group, AECOM, and Morrison Hershfield top BD+C’s ranking of the nation’s...
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Left out of this ongoing national debate over infrastructure are the nation’s other publ...
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Jacobs, Corgan, and Gensler top BD+C’s ranking of the nation’s largest data center secto...
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Interconnected systems (such as the Schlage Control lock shown here) are being used in multifamily complexes, student housing, and senior-living communities. Photo courtesy Schlage
Four certified security professionals offer important advice.
The Dero Decker two-tiered bike parking system.
Bamboo wall panels, an adaptable prep sink, and a two-tiered bike parking system are among the pr...
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Instead of a library, Hermantown High School, near Duluth, Minn., has a wired media center. Books are available in a high-density storage area. Photo: Steve Silverman Photography.
Gilbane Building Co., Balfour Beatty US, and Skanska USA top BD+C’s ranking of the natio...
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Waunakee Intermediate School Library, Photo: EUA
AECOM, IMEG/KJWW/TTG, and STV top BD+C’s ranking of the nation’s largest K-12 sector eng...
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Courtesy: Legat Architects
Stantec, DLR Group, and PBK top BD+C’s ranking of the nation’s largest K-12 sector archi...
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P3 is taking off in airport construction. The $1.6 billion Midfield Satellite Concourse at the Los Angeles International Airport is among the P3-driven projects in the works. Rendering: Corgan in association with Gensler
The $4 billion renovation of New York City’s LaGuardia Airport is the first major U.S. aviation p...
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Photo: Skanska
Hensel Phelps, Turner Construction Co., and Skanska USA top BD+C’s ranking of the nation...
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Photo: Skanska
AECOM, Burns & McDonnell, and Arup top BD+C’s ranking of the nation’s largest airpor...
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Photo: Skanska
Jacobs, Corgan, and Gensler top BD+C’s ranking of the nation’s largest airport sector ar...
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The U.S. Consulate in Erbil, in Iraq's Kurdistan region, will be the largest such facility in the world. Courtesy EYP.
Turner Construction Co., PCL Construction Enterprises, and Clark Group top BD+C’s rankin...
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The Seguin Library, Photo: Dana Hoff, photo courtesy of PGAL
WSP, AECOM, and Arup top BD+C’s ranking of the nation’s largest government sector engine...
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Action at last November’s USA Pickleball Association Nationals in Casa Grande, Ariz., which attracted 774 players from 36 states for 2,088 matches in a weeklong tournament. Photo courtesy USAPA/Tom Gottfried
Two-and-a-half million Americans are playing the game with the funny name.
The Indigo Hotel in downtown Los Angeles will recall eras of that city's history with art in different rooms and areas. (Note the art in the ceiling of the hotel's Sky Bar.) Saiful Bouquet was the structural engineer for the project. Photo courtesy HBA.
Turner Construction Co., Swinerton, and The Whiting-Turner Contracting Co. top BD+C’s ra...
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FKP-design projects: (left) Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia Buerger Center for Advanced Pediatric Care, and (right) Nemours’ A.I. DuPont Hospital for Children. Photos courtesy FKP
The deal strengthens CannonDesign’s pediatric healthcare expertise, establishes presence in Texas...
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Laura Crane, AIA, NCARB, Associate, Project Architect with bKL Architecture, Chicago
These AEC stars are making their mark in business, philanthropy, and in their communities.
Laura Crane, AIA, NCARB, Associate, Project Architect with bKL Architecture, Chicago
These AEC stars are making their mark in business, philanthropy, and in their communities.
Photo courtesy of Stantec
The new location provides the firm with 40,000 sf of space.
Photo courtesy of Barton Mallow
Lendlease, Suffolk Construction, and Clark Group top BD+C’s ranking of the nation’s larg...
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Hurricane recovery efforts expected to heighten concerns about labor scarcities in the south, whe...
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The 1.5-million-sf Oceanwide Plaza, going up across the street from Staples Center and L.A. Live, will include a “lifestyle plaza,” 100 feet in the air, with 37,000 sf of outdoor amenity spaces. A 700-foot-long LED ribbon will wrap the plaza. And this mixed-use project will feature a 166,580-sf open-air retail galleria. CallisonRTKL designed the exterior, retail interior, and South Towers residential space. Studio Munge designed the North Tower interior and 184-room hotel. SWA Design Group is the landscape architect, and Lendlease is the GC. Oceanwide Plaza/CallisonRTKL
The Whiting-Turner Contracting Co., PCL Construction Enterprises, and Shawmut Design and Construc...
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The Marriott Downtown in Omaha, Neb.'s Capitol District is one of Leo A Daly's recent hospitality projects. Its new managing principal Ken Martin foresees hospitality seeping into the firm's other practices. Image: Courtesy Leo A Daly
Ken Martin views this sector as an incubator of innovation.
Rendering courtesy CAF
The Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill-designed space will open in summer 2018.
The University of Iowa’s Hancher Auditorium features a sculptural form and dramatic cantilevered overhangs. Structural design by Thornton Tomasetti for architects Pelli Clarke Pelli Architects (design architect) and OPN Architects (AOR). Photo courtesy Thornton Tomasetti.
AECOM, Affiliated Engineers, and Arup top BD+C’s ranking of the nation’s largest univers...
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