Registration open! 2024 Women in Residential+Commercial Construction Conference, September 18-20, Phoenix

This annual conference gathers 300+ women in construction for three transformative and education-rich days packed with industry speakers, AIA-accredited sessions, breakout education tracks, roundtable discussions, panels, and networking events.

University Buildings

University of Louisville Student Success Building will be new heart of engineering program

A new Student Success Building will serve as the heart of the newly designed University of Louisville’s J.B. Speed School of Engineering. The 115,000-sf structure will greatly increase lab space and consolidate student services to one location.

Healthcare Facilities

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.

K-12 Schools

A Cleveland suburb opens a $31.7 million new middle school and renovated high school

Accommodating 1,283 students in grades 6-12, the Warrensville, Ohio school complex features flexible learning environments and offers programs ranging from culinary arts and firefighting training to e-sports.

Aug 11, 2010

Populous selected to design 'crystalline skin' stadium for 2014 Winter Olympics

Russian officials have selected global architect Populous to design the main stadium for the 2014 Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games in Sochi, Russia. The 40,000-seat stadium will feature a crystalline skin that "engages with its surroundings by day and provides an iconic representation of the color and spectacle of the games when illuminated at night," said Populous senior principal John Barrow.

Aug 11, 2010

Skanska completes $74 million Harbor Towers project six months ahead of schedule

Skanska USA Building Inc. announced the completion of a $74 million rehabilitation project at Harbor Towers, a 40-story luxury condominium complex comprising two towers located on Boston’s waterfront. Skanska served as Program Manager and oversaw the repair and replacement work that dramatically enhanced the reliability, cost-effectiveness, and energy efficiency of the buildings’ MEP systems.

Aug 11, 2010

ASHRAE research targets tying together BIM and energy efficiency

Ensuring that a common language of “energy efficiency” is spoken by both building information modeling software used by architects and energy analysis and simulation software used by engineers is the goal of new research funded by ASHRAE.

Aug 11, 2010

New Watt Stopper emergency relay panel

Watt Stopper/Legrand has developed a new relay panel to provide fail-safe emergency lighting in a variety of commercial settings. The Emergency Relay Panel option is UL924 listed for use on emergency circuits. It is available as an option with Watt Stopper’s 24 or 48 relay size Lighting Integrator (LI) low voltage lighting control panels.

Aug 11, 2010

M&A deal volume down 67% in engineering/construction sector: PricewaterhouseCoopers

Global Economic Uncertainty Results in Sluggish Deal Activity in U.S.; China Shows Significant Opportunity for Growth

Aug 11, 2010

Three Opus Corporation companies file for bankruptcy

Opus Corporation, a developer headquartered in Minnetonka, Minn., filed for bankruptcy in three of its five regional operating companies: Opus East, Opus South, and Opus West. CEO Mark Rauenhorst said sharp declines in commercial real estate values and tight credit markets caused difficulties in refinancing assets and restructuring lending agreements.

Aug 11, 2010

Nigel Gallaher, AIA, joins TRO JUNG|BRANNEN as a principal in healthcare practice

June 26, 2009 - Boston, MA – TRO Jung|Brannen, a leading international architecture, engineering,…

Aug 11, 2010

ZweigWhite names its fastest-growing architecture, engineering, and environmental firms

Management consulting and research firm ZweigWhite has identified the 200 fastest-growing architecture, engineering, and environmental consulting firms in the U.S. and Canada for its annual ranking, The Zweig Letter Hot Firm List. This annual list features the design and environmental firms that have outperformed the economy and competitors to become industry leaders.

Aug 11, 2010

'Too cold' and 'too hot' most common complaints among office workers, says IFMA study

The International Facility Management Association has released “Temperature Wars: Savings vs. Comfort,” a new study that takes an in-depth look at the most common thermal complaints made by workers and the variety of ways facility professionals respond to them.For many years, IFMA has surveyed facility professionals to learn the top office complaints among employees.