Enter today! BD+C's 75 Top Building Products for 2024

Tenants increasingly expect a well-crafted property that feels unique, authentic, and comfortable—with technologically advanced systems and spaces that optimize performance and encourage collaboration and engagement. The following guidance will help owners and property managers keep tenants happy.

When accounting for the total cost of ownership and the potential return on investment, owners and developers should consider total energy usage, the lifespan of building systems equipment, the recruitment and retention of occupants, and lease rates.

Energy-efficient building design starts with the building envelope, but the building systems have a tremendous impact on energy use as well.

Building Design+Construction readers and editors select their top building products for the past 12 months in the fourth-annual 101 Top Products report.

The Operations Center consolidates activities that previously were being handled at 25 locations. 

Maintenance and engineering managers need to monitor the condition of their equipment and the workloads of front-line technicians.

A broad array of new and improved ceiling products offers designers everything from superior acoustics and closed-loop, recycled content to eased integration with lighting systems, HVAC diffusers, fire sprinkler heads, and other overhead problems. This course describes how Building Teams are exploring ways to go beyond the treatment of ceilings as white, monolithic planes.

Less than a year after opening its ultra-green, hydropowered data center facility in Luleå, Sweden, Facebook is back at it in Mother Svea with yet another novel approach to data center design.