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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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Engineers

Engineering goes hand-in-hand with design, putting a practical lens on the architect’s vision and finding the best way to make it happen. Without a talented engineer, the project will never reach completion, and certainly will not reach the standards of functionality and sustainability that the architect and client are seeking.

May 11, 2012

Dempster named to AIA College of Fellows

Altoon Partners’ technical and construction services leader honored for his contributions.

May 11, 2012

AIA launches education and training portal

New portal to host Contract Documents training, education resources in one convenient place.

May 10, 2012

Chapter 7 When Modern Becomes Historic: Preserving the Modernist Building Envelope

This AIA CES Discovery course explores the special reconstruction questions posed by Modern-era buildings.

May 10, 2012

Chapter 6 Energy Codes + Reconstructed Buildings: 2012 and Beyond

Our experts analyze the next generation of energy and green building codes and how they impact reconstruction.

May 10, 2012

Chapter 5 LEED-EB and Green Globes CIEB: Rating Sustainable Reconstruction

Certification for existing buildings under these two rating programs has overtaken that for new construction.

May 10, 2012

Chapter 4 Business Case for High-Performance Reconstructed Buildings

Five reconstruction projects in one city make a bottom-line case for reconstruction across the country.

May 10, 2012

Chapter 3 How Building Technologies Contribute to Reconstruction Advances

Building Teams are employing a wide variety of components and systems in their reconstruction projects.

May 10, 2012

Chapter 2 Exemplary High-Performance Reconstruction Projects

Several case studies show how to successfully renovate existing structures into high-performance buildings.

May 9, 2012

Chapter 1 Reconstruction: ‘The 99% Solution’ for Energy Savings in Buildings

As a share of total construction activity reconstruction has been on the rise in the U.S. and Canada in the last few years, which creates a golden opportunity for extensive energy savings.

May 9, 2012

International green building speaker to keynote Australia’s largest building systems trade show

Green building, sustainability consultant, green building book author Jerry Yudelson will be the keynote speaker at the Air-Conditioning, Refrigeration and Building Systems (ARBS) conference in Melbourne, Australia.

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