Green
Photo: Portland (Ore.) International Airport, courtesy Swinerton
In this exclusive for HorizonTV, BD+C's John Caulfield sat down with three Timberlab leaders to...
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Photo: Adohi Hall at the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, designed by Boston-based Leers Weinzapfel Associates.
An architect who has worked on some of the nation's largest and most significant mass timber co...
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BD+C’s first-ever owners’ survey finds them focused on improving buildings’ performance for hig...
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This week on The Weekly show, BD+C editors speak with AEC industry leaders from Brookf...
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Indiana Toll Road's LEED Gold Administration and Operations Building. Photo courtesy SmithGroup
New LEED Gold facility consolidates operations for tollway authority.
The October 8 episode of BD+C's "The Weekly" is available for viewing on demand.
Architects, developers, and builders will meet in person with product manufacturers at two ProCONNECT events this fall: "Single-Family" (Sept 12-14) and "Multifamily" (Dec 12-14).
SGC Horizon ProConnect 2021 schedule for Education, Multifamily, Office, and Single Family even...
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BuroHappold’s work for the new Santa Monica (Calif.) City Services Building will help it become one of the first municipal facilities to meet the cutting-edge criteria for ILFI’s Living Building Challenge.
The engineering firm also launched a long-term partnership with ILFI.
The prevalence of overweight employees within the construction industry is significantly higher than the general adult population. This has obvious health implications, but also business implications. Photo courtesy Structure Tone
New research on wellness in the construction sector highlights interventions that could be effect...
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The Embodied Carbon in Construction Calculator helps building teams evaluate a project’s overall embodied carbon emissions during design and procurement decision making.
Nearly 50 AEC industry organizations partnered to develop the groundbreaking Embodied Carbon in C...
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Building Design+Construction readers and editors select their top building products for...
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Sto's beetle-inspired exterior coating and Dörken Systems' UV-resistant vapor-permeable barrier a...
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Photo: Hoffmann Architects
On April 18, 2019, the New York City Council passed the Climate Mobilization Act, a suite of laws...
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All renderings courtesy Agripolis
Agripolis is spearheading the project.
Photo by Ljupco Dzambazovski from Pexels
The move follows successful public input on LEED 4.1.
Photo by Helena Lopes from Pexels
Getting wellness to pay off may not be that simple, or even a wise investment to begin with, acco...
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A restrained palette of natural, authentic materials was used in the Amherst (Mass.) College New Science Center. Drawing inspiration from the surrounding campus architecture, the high-performing materials are designed and detailed for a 100-year life cycle. The pavilions are clad in ultra-high-performance concrete panels, in turn protected by a fixed weathering steel screen. Photo: Chuck Choi, courtesy AIA
The Amherst College Science Center and Frick Environmental Center are among the high-performance...
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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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The plan aims for net-zero carbon by 2050.
The 159,000-sf Catalyst building will be eastern Washington's first net-zero-energy ready building. Image: McKinstry
Catalyst will be part of an innovation hub, with Eastern Washington University as its main tenant...
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The rating system emphasizes performance monitoring, fully integrated design, social equity, and...
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First wave of research is part of the Living Standard initiative, which seeks to raise the qualit...
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Perkins+Will designed the building.
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LEED Zero complements LEED to verify the achievement of net zero goals and signals market leaders...
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Can healthier, more sustainable buildings give employers a hiring edge to attract best in class t...
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Clark Construction, in partnership with HKS Architects, in June broke ground on the University of California, San Diego’s Living and Learning Neighborhood at North Torrey Pines, a 1.5-million-sf, seven building mixed-use complex whose passive features include a modular micro-aerobic digester that will process food waste into biogas and fertilizer for community gardens. Courtesy Clark/HKS
Architecture firms are answering the call of local governments and institutional clients for high...
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It is the highest level of certification available from the U.S. Green Building Council.
Courtesy SMM
Spackman Mossop Michaels and Eskew Dumez Ripple partnered on the project.
When there’s only so much real estate available in urban centers for parks, how’s a developer to...
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