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Historic Building Goes into Complete Rehab

The North American Building, a 1913 Holabird & Roche structure in Chicago, is undergoing a…

Structural engineers develop QC guidelines

Responding to what it views as a deterioration in the quality of construction documents, the…

Health-care subsector leads institutional building recovery

Suddenly resurgent spending on new construction, additions, and renovation work in the health-care…

Atlanta seminary goes green with residence hall

A $9.6 million, four-story, 34,000-sf residence hall at Columbia Theological Seminary in…

Product ordering goes mobile using PDA

A/E/C professionals can now search and order from a catalog of more than 50,000 products from the…

Plumbing prices up only slightly in 2002

After rising by a scant 0.2% in 2001, average prices for plumbing products and fixtures have…

Developers assess impact of 9-11

The attack against the United States Sept. 11 did not deter most members of the Urban Land…

First LEED-CS Building in Illinois Nears Completion

One South Dearborn, a 40-story, 820,000-sf office tower currently being built in downtown…

Materials costs spike higher in the wake of hurricane season

Construction materials costs are being abruptly pushed higher at the end of 2005 by the added…

News bits

Software caters to contractors QuickBooks, the software currently used by 350,000…

Functional upgrades for three classic buildings

The renovation of government buildings in Washington, D.C., is ongoing. The most significant…

Pennsylvania Redevelopment Breaks Ground

Strada Architecture and Urban Design of Pittsburgh broke ground in April on Nationwide Centre…

People/Firms

WWCOT, a Palm Springs, Calif.- based architectural firm employing more than 120 people, is…

University of North Florida to get new education building

Ground has been broken on the $27 million College of Education and Human Services Building at…

City debates downsizing, but finds downside

Tacoma Convention Center Tacoma, Wash. The prospect of reduced tourism…

First phase of green residential neighborhood under construction in Stamford

Construction has commenced on the first phase of Metro Green Residential, a candidate for LEED…

Blue Ridge Commercial Carpet

Ellijay, Ga.-based Blue Ridge Commercial Carpet offers more than 70 different modular and…

Hike in tax collections leads to more schools

A surge in April and May spending brought construction activity for education facilities,…

Employment growth stalls amid layoffs in homebuilding sector

Construction employment was mostly steady during the six months ending in August, as hiring by…

Gantt charts, to go

AEC Software has released FastTrack Schedule 7.0, a project-planning tool that offers compatible…