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English, ASL Building Planned for California College

Targeted for completion in summer 2007, the 88,000-sf Communication Arts Building has broken…

People+Firms

• CBI Consulting, Boston, has opened an office in Miami, Fla., its second U.S. office. Albert…

Hercules, California, finally gets a public library

For more than 100 years, residents of Hercules, Calif., have had to travel to neighboring…

CSI releases drafts of new MasterFormat

Taking the next step in revising its MasterFormat document, which currently organizes…

Green student center opens at UCSD

Loaded with sustainable design features, including drip irrigation systems, high-performance…

Gypsum leads materials deflation

The Labor Department's composite measure of average prices received for the entire range of…

Following a two-year building boom, manufacturing construction spending will slide through 2008

After two years of booming sales, U.S. manufacturing market growth is expected to closely…

PROJECTS AWARDED

A joint venture of two Denver design firms, David Owen Tryba Architects and RNL Design, has been…

Tower will require zero energy

Architects at Skidmore, Owings & Merrill have grand plans for a new corporate headquarters…

Office Starts Soar as Vacancy Rates Plummet

The national office vacancy rate declined 0.2% to 16.4% in the first quarter, according to…

Saint Louis University opens $8 million student rec center

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Charlotte towers still lead to nowhere

When 16,000 architects descended on Charlotte for last year's American Institute of Architects…

PEOPLE/FIRMS

Mergers and acquisitions. Des Moines-based Pulley & Associates, a consulting engineering…

Construction unemployment outpaced U.S. total

Overall employment in the construction industry was estimated at 6.648 million workers during…

USGBC considers changes in wood policy

The U.S. Green Building Council recently announced that its board of directors has told the…

Firms take enterprise management to the Web

With the transition of the computers based on traditional operation modules to Web-based…

Day labor station wins Holcim sustainable construction award

The station’s interior seating is flanked by a restroom and a food…

Town Rec Center Being Built in Northern Virginia

Forrester Construction, Rockville, Md., has been awarded the contract for the $22 million…

Sporty hardwood floors

Surface friction, ball bounce and rolling load are factors considered in specification of hardwood…