Higher Education

Photo: Tomasz Sienicki via Wikimedia Commons
September 08, 2014 | Megan Donham, Associate Consultant, CBRE Healthcare
Behind the scenes of integrated project delivery — successful tools and applications

The underlying variables and tools used to manage collaboration between teams is ultimately the d...

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Tesoro Corporation headquarters in San Antonio, TX, a LEED-certified building. P
September 03, 2014 | Green Building Certification Institute
New designation launched to streamline LEED review process

The LEED Proven Provider designation is designed to minimize the need for additional work during...

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Berea Colleges Deep Green residence hall, designed by Hastings+Chivetta Archi
September 03, 2014 | BD+C Staff
Ranked: Top green building sector AEC firms [2014 Giants 300 Report]

AECOM, Gensler, and Turner top BD+C's rankings of the nation's largest green design and construct...

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All photos: courtesy Valspar
| September 02, 2014 | Valspar Sponsored Content
Judson University’s Harm A. Weber Academic Center resembles copper, but its sustainability efforts are pure gold

The building’s custom-fabricated wall panels look like copper, but are actually flat metal sheets...

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Photos: James Steinkamp, Steinkamp Photography
August 26, 2014 | Perkins+Will
Check out Case Western's stunning new university center [slideshow]

With its sloping grass-covered green roof, the two-story building is at the intersection of the t...

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J. Craig Venter Institutes Landmark Net-Zero-Energy Genomic Laboratory, La Joll
August 21, 2014 | BD+C Staff
Ranked: Top science and technology sector AEC firms [2014 Giants 300 Report]

HDR, Affiliated Engineers, and Skanska top BD+C's rankings of the nation's largest S+T sector des...

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Narrow fire-rated aluminum framing system
| August 17, 2014 | Technical Glass Products Sponsored Content
Fire-rated framing system makes the grade at Johnson & Wales University Center

The precision engineering of TGP’s Fireframes Aluminum Series creates narrow profiles and crisp s...

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Santiago Calatrava, LLC
August 12, 2014 | Santiago Calatrava Architects & Engineers 
First look: Calatrava's futuristic Main Building opens at Florida Polytechnic University

The $60 million structure is wrapped in a bright-white, aluminum pergola for dramatic effect and...

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Science, general academic, and health-medical were hot categories in the univers
July 30, 2014 | Julie S. Higginbotham, Senior Editor
Higher ed officials grapple with knotty problems, but construction moves ahead [2014 Giants 300 Report]

University stakeholders face complicated cap-ex stressors, from chronic to impending. Creative ap...

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Office reconstruction to suit new work styles is becoming a hot category. A Buil
July 29, 2014 | Julie S. Higginbotham
Reconstruction market benefits from improving economy, new technology [2014 Giants 300 Report]

Following years of fairly lackluster demand for commercial property remodeling, reconstruction re...

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July 29, 2014 | BD+C Staff
Reconstruction Sector Construction Firms [2014 Giants 300 Report]

Structure Tone, Turner, and Gilbane top Building Design+Construction's 2014 ranking of the larges...

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July 29, 2014 | BD+C Staff
Reconstruction Sector Engineering Firms [2014 Giants 300 Report]

Jacobs, URS, and Wiss, Janney, Elstner top Building Design+Construction's 2014 ranking of the lar...

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July 29, 2014 | BD+C Staff
Reconstruction Sector Architecture Firms [2014 Giants 300 Report]

Stantec, HDR, and HOK top Building Design+Construction's 2014 ranking of the largest reconstructi...

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July 23, 2014 | AIA
Architecture Billings Index up nearly a point in June

AIA reported the June ABI score was 53.5, up from a mark of 52.6 in May.

Tidewater Community College/City of Virginia Beach, Virginia Beach, Calif. Photo
July 22, 2014 | Julie S. Higginbotham, Senior Editor
Economists ponder uneven recovery, weigh benefits of big infrastructure [2014 Giants 300 Report]

According to expert forecasters, multifamily projects, the Panama Canal expansion, and the petrol...

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Lookout Mountain Elementary School, Phoenix, Ariz. Photo: courtesy Adolfson & Pe
July 18, 2014 | Robert Cassidy, Editorial Director
Contractors warm up to new technologies, invent new management schemes [2014 Giants 300 Report]

“UAV.” “LATISTA.” “CMST.” If BD+C Giants 300 contractors have anything to say about it, these new...

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Riyadh Metro Station, designed by Zaha Hadid Architects, with engineering servic
July 18, 2014 | BD+C Staff
Top Construction Management Firms [2014 Giants 300 Report]

Jacobs, Barton Malow, Hill International top Building Design+Construction's 2014 ranking of the l...

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Contractor Turner Construction is focusing its international efforts in Europe,
July 18, 2014 | BD+C Staff
Top Contractors [2014 Giants 300 Report]

Turner, Whiting-Turner, Skanska top Building Design+Construction's 2014 ranking of the largest co...

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The 73-year-old Naval Reserve Armory building on Seattles South Lake Union dock
July 18, 2014 | David Barista, Editor-in-Chief
Engineering firms look to bolster growth through new services, technology [2014 Giants 300 Report]

Following solid revenue growth in 2013, the majority of U.S.-based engineering and engineering/ar...

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The 73-year-old Naval Reserve Armory building on Seattles South Lake Union dock
July 18, 2014 | BD+C Staff
Top Engineering/Architecture Firms [2014 Giants 300 Report]

Jacobs, AECOM, Parsons Brinckerhoff top Building Design+Construction's 2014 ranking of the larges...

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At 206,000 sf, San Diego State Universitys Conrad Prebys Aztec Student Union is
July 18, 2014 | BD+C Staff
Top Engineering Firms [2014 Giants 300 Report]

Fluor, Arup, Day & Zimmermann top Building Design+Construction's 2014 ranking of the largest...

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The shale gale of petroleum development is bringing economic growth to numerou
July 18, 2014 | BD+C Staff
Top Architecture Firms [2014 Giants 300 Report]

Gensler, Perkins+Will, NBBJ top Building Design+Construction's 2014 ranking of the largest archit...

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Los Angeles International Airport is undergoing a massive improvement program, e
July 18, 2014 | BD+C Staff
2014 Giants 300 Report

Building Design+Construction magazine's annual ranking the nation's largest architecture, enginee...

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July 18, 2014 | The Green Building Initiative
First Green Globes certification given to new University of North Carolina housing facility

The Green Building Initiative announced that the University of North Carolina-Charlotte’s Belk Ha...

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Centennial Hall is the first new academic building on the UW-Eau Claire campus i
July 11, 2014 | SmithGroupJJR
$44.5 million Centennial Hall opens at University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire

Centennial Hall houses the College of Education and Human Sciences and consolidates teacher educa...

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July 10, 2014 | BD+C Staff
Berkeley Lab opens 'world's most comprehensive building efficiency simulator'

 

DOE’s new FLEXLAB is a first-of-its-kind simulator that lets users test energy-efficient...

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July 09, 2014 | Harvard Business School
Harvard Business School to build large-scale conference center

Expected to open in 2018, the facility will combine the elements of a large-scale conference cent...

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For the west faade of the 77,000-sf Farm Credit Services of America Corporate O
July 07, 2014 | Brick Industry Association
7 emerging design trends in brick buildings

From wild architectural shapes to unique color blends and pattern arrangements, these projects de...

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Channel glass exterior faade. Photo: Technical Glass Products/NBBJ
| July 07, 2014 | Technical Glass Products
Channel glass illuminates science at the University of San Francisco

The University of San Francisco’s new John Lo Schiavo Center for Science and Innovation brings sc...

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July 03, 2014 | The Clark Art Institute
Clark Institute to open newly-renovated campus designed by Tadao Ando, Selldorf Architects

Combining the talents of four noted architects, the project unites the new Clark Center, designed...

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