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Katrina's fury may strike a slight blow to the U.S construction industry

As cities along the ravaged Gulf Coast begin to pick up the pieces in the aftermath of…

Piano's new opus resonates with Chicago

Ground was broken May 31 on the north wing addition to the Art Institute of Chicago, located…

GM assembly plant takes green design to the mega-level

Talk about “green” on a grand scale. In August, General Motors officially opened its…

World's Largest Vedic-Style Office Planned for Maryland

The 200,000-sf, $72 million Tower II office building is scheduled to begin construction in…

Revitalization by design

Architecture's role in the revival of cities was a focus of the 2001 American Institute of…

Mayors, manufacturers, and Wal-Mart join the Clinton Climate Initiative

The Clinton Climate Initiative has teamed up with the U.S. Conference of Mayors, Wal-Mart, and…

Pope joins building team

Leo A. Daly III, president of A/E Leo A. Daly of Omaha, Neb., recently presented a model of the new…

New performing arts center completed for Western Michigan University

Construction was recently completed for the privately funded $13 million Richmond Center for…

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Learning about lean construction

The Idaho-based Lean Construction Institute (LCI), a nonprofit corporation, was founded in 1997 to…

Architect Joseph Aliotta on Wienerberger ArGeTon Bricks

ArGeTon terra cotta bricks are part of Wienerberger’s Terca line of façade bricks. The bricks…

Florida developer hopes to transform failing mall to mixed-use magnet

Local private equity investor U.S. Capital Holdings Group has submitted its final plans to…

Water displacement

When an 80-unit condominium complex in Danbury, Conn., began taking in water from its brick façade…

Digital whiteboards allow design teams to capture plan markups

How many times have you been through hours of discussions and had to dig through flat files…

NEWS BRIEFS

Silicon Valley heading south. After averaging 4 million square feet of absorption for a…

Process industries booming; other manufacturing stagnant

Manufacturing construction is a mixed market. Construction spending for “under a roof”…

Sequential closing

System provides correct sequential closing of pairs of doors equipped with overlapping astragals,…

Consumer confidence rebounds from 9-11

Consumer confidence has fought back from the gloom that enveloped the nation following the…

Glass prices spiked in 2000

Flat glass prices rose at their fastest annual rate since the late 1980s last year, driven higher…

Future central business district planned for Abu Dhabi

Goettsch Partners, Chicago, has been commissioned by Mubadala Development Company of Abu Dhabi…