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In Gulf Shores, a city on Alabamaās Gulf Coast, a new $137 million high school broke ground in late April and is expected to open in the fall of 2026. Designed by DLR Group and Goodwyn Mills Cawood, the 287,000-sf Gulf Shores High School will offer cutting-edge facilities and hands-on learning opportunities.
A new affordable housing development located in the fastest growing section of Brooklyn, N.Y., where over half the population lives below the poverty line, transformed a long vacant lot into a community asset. The Van Sinderen Plaza project consists of a newly constructed pair of seven-story buildings totaling 193,665 sf, including 130 affordable units.
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has unveiled a new medical education building, Roper Hall. Designed by The S/L/A/M Collaborative (SLAM) and Flad Architects, the UNC School of Medicineās new building intends to train new generations of physicians through dynamic and active modes of learning.
Once the project is completed, the building must be managed by someone, or it cannot live up to its full functionality. Owners and facility managers are the unsung heroes of many iconic works of architecture, making sure that buildings remain in good condition and are utilized to their fullest potential.
Any project can benefit from the collaborative spirit and cooperative relationships embodied by design-build. But is there a point of diminishing return where the design-build project delivery model just doesn't make sense for small projects?Ā Design-build expert Lisa Cooley debates the issue.
We just posted the Entry Form for our 9th Annual BD+C "40 Under 40" competition. Frankly, the Entry Form is just the basic data. The real meat of your entry is your Personal Statement.
"Operational stray" occurs when a buildingās MEP systems donāt work the way they should. Even the most well-designed and constructed building can stray from perfectionāand that can cost the owner a ton in unnecessary utility costs. But help is on the way.
Under LEED v4, projects are awarded points for using at least 20 building products that have issued Environmental Product Declarations or Health Product Declarations. In response, manufacturers are racing to offer EPDs and HPDs for their product lines.Ā
With all the effort AEC professionals put into leveraging technology to communicate digitally on projects, it is a shame that there is often one major road block that becomes the paper in their otherwise āpaperlessā project: the local city planning and permitting department.Ā
Seven leading product sustainability assessment companies partner with the HPD Collaborative to develop the verification and quality assurance protocols.
Kieran Timberlake and PE International have developedĀ Tally, an analysis tool to help BIM users keep better score of their projectsā complete environmental footprints.
The Furniture Row retail center in Charlotte, N.C., incorporates four specialty stores in a distinctive, efficient structure.Ā
Following three months of accelerating demand for design services, the Architecture Billings Index reflected a somewhat slower pace of growth in October.Ā The October ABI score was 51.6, down from a mark of 54.3 in September.
Freestanding pediatric facilities have operational and physical characteristics that differ from those of adult facilities.
