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    Rehab center in San Antonioto help veterans cope with traumatic injuries New Navajo elementary schoolcharacterized by energy-efficient upgrades Spokane hospital renovations expand...
    Jan. 4, 2012
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    Houston apartment complex receives $10 million renovation Children’s hospitalemploys handicap-accessible design Casino expansionincludes hotel and fine-dining restaurant in Tucson...
    Jan. 4, 2012
    When deciding where to position a donor recognition sign, Ohio State University Medical Center was able to create several render
    While increasing numbers of building projects are now being designed with building information modeling, very few property owners are retroactively applying BIM to their existing...
    Jan. 3, 2012
    According to a new rule issued by the Steel Joist Institute, the proper way to hang loads from joist chords is concentrically (n
    For years, the steel joist industry standard has been that loads either need to be applied at panel points, or a member brace (strut) must be added in the field. In response to...
    Jan. 3, 2012
    Whether its fly ash, slag, silica fume, or other supplementary cementitious materials, project teams are seeing cement substitu
    Concrete has long been a reliable building material for commercial and institutional projects. Yet recent trends, including the growth in hospitality and urban rental project ...
    Jan. 3, 2012
    Where the walls were previously painted white, the results of EverGreenes finishes investigation in the Illinois State Capitol
    Finishes investigations, which encompass the study of paints, glazes, clear finishes (varnishes, shellacs, lacquers) and their substrates, not only provide invaluable insight ...
    Jan. 3, 2012
    The gothic architecture of Hope Lodge was fully restored, including the masonry. The slate roof was also replaced, and new steel
    The B. Thomas Golisano Hope Lodge Hospitality House, located on the edge of the Colgate Rochester Crozier Divinity School (CRCDS) campus in Rochester, N.Y., was destined to change...
    Jan. 3, 2012
    Although the new lab is more than 1,000 sf smaller than its predecessor, the Building Team was able to maximize floor space usin
    When looking at the Genetics Laboratory of the Center for Conservation and Evolutionary Genetics (CCEG) in Washington, D.C., it’s hard to believe dozens of marmosets used to call...
    Jan. 3, 2012
    Forty Seven Years After Starting The Firm With His Wife, Drue, And Jim Follett, Art Gensler Is Still On The Job Every Workday
    After running what is today the largest architecture firm in the world for more than four decades, M. Arthur Gensler, Jr., FAIA, FIIDA, RIBA, is content to be just another employee...
    Jan. 3, 2012
    Members of Genslers San Francisco office collaborate around a model of a project. The firms culture values learning, professio
    With FY2011 revenues of $574 million and more than 3,000 employees in 41 offices serving 2,248 clients in 90 countries across North and South America, Asia, and the Middle East...
    Jan. 3, 2012
    Gables 5th Street Commons, a four-story, 138-unit mixed-use apartment complex by developer Gables Residential, near the Universi
    The Great Recession that began in 2008 essentially killed the entire U.S. housing market. New housing construction of any kind was pretty much stopped in its tracks. And while...
    Jan. 3, 2012