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Watch on-demand: Key Trends in the Healthcare Facilities Market for 2024-2025

Join the Building Design+Construction editorial team for this on-demand webinar on key trends, innovations, and opportunities in the $65 billion U.S. healthcare buildings market. A panel of healthcare design and construction experts present their latest projects, trends, innovations, opportunities, and data/research on key healthcare facilities sub-sectors. A 2024-2025 U.S. healthcare facilities market outlook is also presented.




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Aug 11, 2010

CALL FOR PAPERS: 48th International Making Cities Livable Conference

www.livablecities.org/conferences/forthcoming-conferences/18.html Conference Program: True…
Aug 11, 2010

Architecture Billings Index flat in May, according to AIA

After a slight decline in April, the Architecture Billings Index was up a tenth of a point to 42.9 in May. As a leading economic indicator of construction activity, the ABI reflects the approximate nine to twelve month lag time between architecture billings and construction spending. Any score above 50 indicates an increase in billings.

Aug 11, 2010

Free-span solar energy system installed at REM Eyewear headquarters

The first cable-suspended free-span solar energy system was completed today over the REM Eyewear headquarters parking lot in Sun Valley, Calif. The patented, cable-supported photovoltaic system created by P4P Energy is expected to generate 40,877 kilowatt-hours of renewable electricity per year, enough to power five to six single family homes and to prevent 1.5 million pounds of carbon from being released into the atmosphere.
Aug 11, 2010

Architecture Billings Index drops to lowest level since June

Another stall in the recovery for the construction industry as the Architecture Billings Index (ABI) dropped to its lowest level since June. The American Institute of Architects (AIA) reported the August ABI rating was 41.7, down slightly from 43.1 in July. This score indicates a decline in demand for design services (any score above 50 indicates an increase in billings).
Aug 11, 2010

Tishman Construction completes renovation and modernization OF historic Copley Square Hotel

BOSTON, JULY 2009 – Tishman Construction Corporation of Massachusetts (TCC-MA) has completed the $…
Aug 11, 2010

Construction employment declined in 333 of 352 metro areas in June

Construction employment declined in all but 19 communities nationwide this June as compared to June-2008, according to a new analysis of metropolitan-area employment data released today by the Associated General Contractors of America.  The analysis shows that few places in America have been spared the widespread downturn in construction employment over the past year.
Aug 11, 2010

RTKL names Lance Josal president and CEO

Lance K. Josal FAIA has been named President and CEO of RTKL Associates Inc., the international planning, design and engineering firm. Josal succeeds RTKL’s current President and CEO, David C. Hudson AIA, who is retiring from the firm. The changes will take effect on 1 September 2009.
Aug 11, 2010

Charles Thornton, co-founder of Thornton Tomasetti, earns Construction Industry Institute's top award

(New York – July 31, 2009) - Charles H. Thornton, Ph.D., P.E., chairman of Charles Thornton and…
Aug 11, 2010

Jacobs, Hensel Phelps among the nation's 50 largest design-build contractors

A ranking of the Top 50 Design-Build Contractors based on Building Design+Construction's 2009 Giants 300 survey. For more Giants 300 rankings, visit http://www.BDCnetwork.com/Giants
Aug 11, 2010

Christopher Pyke, Ph. D., Named Research Director for the U.S. Green Building Council

WASHINGTON, D.C. (June 24, 2009) – The U.S. Green Building Council announced this week that…
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