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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.

 

Multifamily Housing | Nov 7, 2019

Multifamily construction market remains strong heading into 2020

Fewer than one in 10 AEC firms doing multifamily work reported a decrease in proposal activity in Q3 2019, according to a PSMJ report.

Nov 6, 2019

Solomon Cordwell Buenz opens Seattle office, headed by Nolan Sit

National design firm brings residential high-rise expertise to the Pacific Northwest

Nov 6, 2019

Passive House senior high-rise uses structural thermal breaks to insulate steel penetrations

Built to International Passive House standards, the Corona Senior Residence in Queens, N.Y., prevents thermal bridging between interior and exterior steel structures by insulating canopies and rooftop supports where they penetrate the building envelope.

Multifamily Housing | Nov 5, 2019

The Collective Paper Factory is the co-living company’s first U.S. location

The building offers a stay model ranging from one night to 29 days.

Multifamily Housing | Nov 4, 2019

A historic ice cream factory now provides Milwaukee with affordable housing

Thanks to projects like this, the Lindsay Heights neighborhood is definitely on the upswing.

Multifamily Housing | Oct 31, 2019

Soltra at SanTan Village breaks ground in Arizona

Todd & Associates designed the project.

Oct 30, 2019

James McHugh Construction breaks ground on 1000M, Michigan Avenue’s tallest tower to be

McHugh will start work on the 832-foot-tall residential 1000M tower in December 2019.

Oct 30, 2019

The Beach Company acquires land for multifamily community in Chattanooga

River Rock project will add 163 apartments near the Tennessee River in Chattanooga’s downtown riverfront district.

Multifamily Housing | Oct 30, 2019

Techno-magnet: Multifamily development attracts top tech workers, students

Proto Kendall Square is wooing grad students and millennial STEM workers from what’s arguably ‘the most innovative square mile on the planet.’

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