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Top 40 Engineering Architecture Firms for 2024

Jacobs, AECOM, Kimley-Horn, WSP, and Alfa Tech Consulting Engineers top Building Design+Construction's ranking of the nation's largest engineering architecture (AE) firms for nonresidential building and multifamily housing work, as reported in BD+C's 2024 Giants 400 Report.

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Aug 11, 2010

Bronze Award: Hawthorne Elementary School, Elmhurst, Ill.

At 121 years, Hawthorne School is the oldest elementary school building in the Elmhurst, Ill., school district and a source of pride for the community. Unfortunately, decades of modifications and short-sighted planning had rendered it dysfunctional in terms of modern educational delivery. At the same time, increasing enrollment was leading to overcrowding, with the result that the library, for ...
Aug 11, 2010

Platinum Award: Reviving Oakland's Uptown Showstopper

The story of the Fox Oakland Theater is like that of so many movie palaces of the early 20th century. Built in 1928 based on a Middle Eastern-influenced design by architect Charles Peter Weeks and engineer William Peyton Day, the 3,400-seat cinema flourished until the mid-1960s, when the trend toward smaller multiplex theaters took its toll on the Fox Oakland.
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