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Great Solutions

41 Great Solutions for architects, engineers, and contractors

AI ChatBots, ambient computing, floating MRIs, low-carbon cement, sunshine on demand, next-generation top-down construction. These and 35 other innovations make up our 2024 Great Solutions Report, which highlights fresh ideas and innovations from leading architecture, engineering, and construction firms.


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As cities grow ever more crowded, multifamily housing construction is more necessary than ever. Finding ways to compress housing into smaller spaces while still creating true homes calls for a complex blend of innovative design and engineering.

 

Sep 23, 2011

Under 40 Leadership Summit

Building Design+Construction’s Under 40 Leadership Summit takes place October 26-28, 2011 Hotel at the Monteleone in New Orleans. Discounted hotel rate deadline: October 2, 2011.  

Sep 20, 2011

Jeanne Gang wins MacArthur Fellowship

Jeanne Gang, a 2011 MacArthur Fellowship winner described by the foundation as "an architect challenging the aesthetic and technical possibilities of the art form in a wide range of structures."

Sep 12, 2011

Living Buildings: Are AEC Firms up to the Challenge?

Modular Architecture > You’ve done a LEED Gold or two, maybe even a LEED Platinum. But are you and your firm ready to take on the Living Building Challenge? Think twice before you say yes.

Drew Ballensky | Jul 27, 2011

Landmark City Hall East in Atlanta to get mixed-use makeover

City Hall East, an Atlanta landmark and the largest brick building in the Southeast, will be…
Jul 22, 2011

Five award-winning modular innovations

The Modular Building Institute's 2011 Awards of Distinction highlight fresh ideas in manufactured construction projects.

Jun 29, 2011

Officials break ground on town center near University of Connecticut

Officials in Storrs, Conn., have planned a new residential and retail town center to appear next to…
Jun 23, 2011

Chicago-based firm to design third-tallest building in China

Adrian Smith+Gordon Gill Architecture won a competition to design the $773 million Wuhan Greenland…
Drew Ballensky | Jun 8, 2011

Feds launch green retrofit program for multifamily housing

The Obama Administration last week launched Green Refinance Plus, a new program sprung from the…
Jun 6, 2011

Retirement communities may see first gains in recovering market

As baby boomers inch closer to retirement, senior housing official Andrew Carle of George Mason…
Drew Ballensky | Jun 1, 2011

San Francisco neighborhood rehab will emphasize sustainability

A $1.2 billion plan to reconstruct a San Francisco residential neighborhood will replace 1,500 rent…
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