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Hotel Facilities

Travelers are always looking for a home away from home, and the tourist industry needs these vacationers to survive. Creating a winning hotel can benefit everybody, and people will return to your retreat time and time again.
Modernist structures can be viable candidates for adaptive reuse as lodging, suc
November 06, 2013 | Julie Higginbotham, Senior Editor
Green hotel trends: Industry expands its sustainability focus beyond laundry

There’s more to creating a sustainable hotel than saving water and power by asking guests to reus...

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Historic preservation adaptive reuse project: 510 Fifth Reno
October 30, 2013 | BD+C Editor
15 stellar historic preservation, adaptive reuse, and renovation projects

The winners of the 2013 Reconstruction Awards showcase the best work of distinguished Building Te...

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October 30, 2013 | BD+C Staff
11 hot BIM/VDC topics for 2013

If you like to geek out on building information modeling and virtual design and construction, you...

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The 1,460-sf green wall at the Papadakis Integrated Science Building, Drexel Uni
September 24, 2013 | BD+C Staff
8 grand green roofs (and walls)

A dramatic interior green wall at Drexel University and a massive, 4.4-acre vegetated roof at the...

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September 19, 2013 | Jerry Yudelson, PE, LEED Fellow
What we can learn from the world’s greenest buildings

Renowned green building author, Jerry Yudelson, offers five valuable lessons for designers, contr...

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September 19, 2013 | C.C. Sullivan and Barbara Horwitz-Bennett, Contributing Editors
6 emerging energy-management glazing technologies

Phase-change materials, electrochromic glass, and building-integrated PVs are among the breakthro...

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September 17, 2013 | The Boldt Company
Healthcare project will merge outpatient clinic with YMCA to promote wellness and prevention

Penrose-St. Francis Health Services and the YMCA of the Pikes Peak Region announce collaboration,...

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Loews Coronado Bay Resort, San Diego, recently completed a nine-month transforma
September 13, 2013 | Loews Hotels & Resorts
Loews Hotels & Resorts announces major cross-portfolio upgrades

Lo...

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September 11, 2013 | BD+C Staff
BUILDINGChicago eShow Daily – Day 3 coverage

Day 3 coverage of the BUILDINGChicago/Greening the Heartland conference and expo, taking place th...

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Banner Health Center Maricopa, near Phoenix, is the first project created from a
September 10, 2013 | Julie Higginbotham, Senior Editor
The new medical office building: 7 things to know about today’s outpatient clinic

Regulatory pressures, economic constraints, and emerging technologies are transforming healthcare...

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September 10, 2013 | BD+C Staff
BUILDINGChicago eShow Daily – Day 2 coverage

The BD+C editorial team brings you this real-time coverage of day 2 of the BUILDINGChicago/Greeni...

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In one of the largest augmented reality applications to date, VTN Consulting wor
September 04, 2013 | David Barista, Editor-in-Chief
Augmented reality goes mainstream: 12 applications for design and construction firms

Thanks to inexpensive mobile devices and increasingly advanced software apps, Building Teams are...

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September 04, 2013 | Leo O’Loughlin, Senior Vice President, Energy and Sustainability, Jones Lang LaSalle
Smart building technology: Talking results at the BUILDINGChicago/ Greening the Heartland show

Recent advancements in technology are allowing owners to connect with facilities as never before,...

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August 30, 2013 | BD+C Staff
A new approach to post-occupancy evaluations

As a growing number of healthcare institutions become more customer-focused, post-occupancy evalu...

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August 26, 2013 | BD+C Staff
What you missed last week: Architecture billings up again; record year for hotel renovations; nation's most expensive real estate markets

BD+C's roundup of the top construction market news for the week of August 18 includes th...

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August 22, 2013 | C.C. Sullivan and Adam Sullivan, Contributing Editors
Energy-efficient glazing technology [AIA Course]

This course discuses the latest technological advances in glazing, which make possible ever more...

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August 14, 2013 | BD+C Staff
Green Building Report [2013 Giants 300 Report]

Building Design+Construction's rankings of the nation's largest green design and construction fir...

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July 31, 2013 | AIA
Hotel, retail sectors bright spots of sluggish nonresidential construction market

A disappointing recovery of the U.S. economy is limiting need for new nonresidential building act...

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July 30, 2013 | Robert Cassidy, Editorial Director
Better planning and delivery sought for VA healthcare facilities

Making Veterans Administration healthcare projects “better planned, better delivered” is the new...

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The 34,000-sf Adamsville Regional Health Center, designed by Stanley Beaman & Se
July 30, 2013 | Robert Cassidy, Editorial Director
Healthcare designers get an earful about controlling medical costs

At the current pace, in 2020 the U.S. will spend $4.2 trillion a year on healthcare; unchecked, w...

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Quapaw Downstream Casino Resort, Quapaw, Oklahoma; Courtesy Manhattan Constructi
July 22, 2013 | BD+C Staff
Top Hotel Construction Firms [2013 Giants 300 Report]

Manhattan Construction, Structure Tone, Lend Lease top Building Design+Construction's 2013 rankin...

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Grand Hyatt Beijing Hotel, Beijing, China; Courtesy: Parsons Brinckerhoff
July 22, 2013 | BD+C Staff
Top Hotel Engineering Firms [2013 Giants 300 Report]

AECOM, Parsons Brinckerhoff, Buro Happold top Building Design+Construction's 2013 ranking of the...

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Nova Hotel, Abuja, Nigeria; Courtesy: WATG
July 22, 2013 | BD+C Staff
Top Hotel Architecture Firms [2013 Giants 300 Report]

Gensler, WATG, HKS top Building Design+Construction's 2013 ranking of the largest hotel architect...

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The Weitz Company recently completed a renovation of the Breakers Beach Club, a
July 22, 2013 | Julie Higginbotham, Senior Editor
Hotel business continues to shine [2013 Giants 300 Report]

Despite some economic stressors, hotel operating fundamentals are poised to remain strong in 2013...

July 22, 2013 | BD+C Staff
Convention Center Report [2013 Giants 300 Report]

Building Design+Construction's rankings of design and construction firms with the most revenue fr...

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July 19, 2013 | BD+C Staff
Reconstruction Sector Architecture Firms [2013 Giants 300 Report]

Stantec, HOK, HDR top Building Design+Construction's 2013 ranking of the largest reconstruction a...

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The Paramount Theatre of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, was heavily damaged by flooding in
July 19, 2013 | Julie Higginbotham, Senior Editor
Renovation, adaptive reuse stay strong, providing fertile ground for growth [2013 Giants 300 Report]
Increasingly, owners recognize that existing buildings represent a considerable resource in emb...
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Nissan Americas HQ, Smyrna, Tenn., Energy Star award winner
July 17, 2013 | CBRE Group
CBRE recognizes nation's best green research projects

A rating system for comparative tenant energy use and a detailed evaluation of Energy Star energy...

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July 10, 2013 | BD+C Staff
World's best new skyscrapers [slideshow]

The Bow in Calgary and CCTV Headquarters in Beijing are among the world's best new high-rise proj...

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July 10, 2013 | BD+C Staff
TED talk: Architect Michael Green on why we should build tomorrow's skyscrapers out of wood

In a newly posted TED talk, wood skyscraper expert Michael Green makes the case for building the...

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