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Top 30 Data Center Architecture Firms for 2024

Corgan, HDR, Gensler, Woolpert, and HKS top BD+C's ranking of the nation's largest data center sector architecture and architecture/engineering (AE) firms for 2024, as reported...
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Top 50 Data Center Construction Firms for 2024

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Updated resilient construction standards released for 2025

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Webcor’s new investment arm bets on modular

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Office Buildings

Transforming office towers into AI hubs and urban data centers

HOK shares a look at how empty and underutilized office towers in cities like San Francisco, Calif., could find new life as advanced tech hubs with on-site servers, energy harvesting...
Nov. 26, 2024
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Data Centers

Overcoming fire suppression challenges in data center design

Densely packed ceilings in data centers present unique challenges for fire suppression systems, and demands the expertise of a mechanical, electrical, plumbing, and fire protection...
Nov. 25, 2024
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Urban Planning

Empowering communities through participatory urban design

Today, the most successful urban design efforts balance the broader community’s needs with equity for individual neighborhoods and residents.
Nov. 21, 2024
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Building Smarter: How Digital Transformation Tackles Today’s Biggest Challenges in Construction

In 2024, the construction industry is navigating unprecedented challenges: skilled labor shortages, volatile supply chains, stricter regulations, and rising client expectations...
Nov. 19, 2024

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Giants 400

Top 75 healthcare engineering firms for 2024

Jacobs, WSP, IMEG, AECOM, and BR+A Consulting Engineers top Building Design+Construction's ranking of the nation's largest healthcare facility engineering and engineering/architecture...
Nov. 21, 2024
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Top 125 healthcare architecture firms for 2024

HKS, HDR, CannonDesign, Stantec, and Perkins&Will top Building Design+Construction's ranking of the nation's largest healthcare facility architecture and architecture/engineering...
Nov. 20, 2024
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Top 100 healthcare facility construction firms for 2024

Turner Construction, Brasfield & Gorrie, McCarthy Holdings, Robins & Morton, JE Dunn Construction, and DPR Construction top Building Design+Construction's ranking of the nation...
Nov. 18, 2024
Phase 2 of the three-building Gulch Union project in Nashville is a 357,000-sf, 29-story tower with 308 residences. Rendering: HKS
MFPRO+ News

Project financing tempers robust demand for multifamily housing

AEC Giants with multifamily practices report that the sector has been struggling over the past year, despite the high demand for housing, especially affordable products.“The lending...
Oct. 22, 2024

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Student Housing

Lamar Johnson Collaborative transforms prominent parcel into student housing

Lamar Johnson Collaborative announced the recent completion of Chapter Madison, a 10-story, 550-bed student housing development designed by the firm to address the need for campus...
Nov. 21, 2024
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Multifamily Pro+

Multifamily market sees modest rent decline in October 2024

Demand remains strong despite ongoing delivery of new supply in many markets.
Nov. 15, 2024
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Multifamily Pro+

New download: BD+C's 2024 Multifamily Annual Report

This 60-page special report from the editors of Building Design+Construction and Multifamily Pro+ provides a “state of the state” update on the $130 billion multifamily housing...
Nov. 13, 2024
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MFPRO+ News

Voters passed multiple affordable housing measures on election day

Baltimore, Charlotte, and Los Angeles County are among those metro markets allocating funds for affordable housing.
Nov. 11, 2024

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Laboratories

San Diego life science research campus features color-changing, coffered façade

Nov. 13, 2024
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Hotel Facilities

Denver’s recently opened Populus hotel claims title of country’s first carbon positive hotel

Nov. 11, 2024
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520 Fifth Avenue tower, New York City. Rendering: Binyan Studios, courtesy Rabina development
High-rise Construction

KPF’s latest New York high-rise will stand as the tallest mixed-use building on Fifth Avenue

Nov. 8, 2024
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40 Under 40

Meet the 40 Under 40 class of 2024

Nov. 7, 2024

Healthcare Facilities

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Healthcare Facilities

Exclusive research: Emerging trends in the $18.3 billion outpatient facilities market

More than 130 healthcare experts share their thoughts on trends, innovations, and opportunities in the U.S. outpatient facilities market.
Nov. 1, 2024
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Healthcare Facilities

New surgical tower is largest addition to UNC Health campus in Chapel Hill

Construction on UNC Health’s North Carolina Surgical Hospital, the largest addition to the Chapel Hill campus since it was built in 1952, was recently completed. The seven-story...
Oct. 28, 2024
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Healthcare Facilities

7 design lessons for future-proofing academic medical centers

Academic medical centers (AMCs) are training grounds for physicians and destinations for leading-edge treatment and research. These large, integrated facilities are also incredibly...
Oct. 18, 2024
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Seismic Design

Calif. governor signs limited extension to hospital seismic retrofit mandate

Some California hospitals will have three additional years to comply with the state’s seismic retrofit mandate, after Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a bill extending the 2030 deadline...
Oct. 17, 2024

Education Facilities

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University Buildings

The evolution of academic spaces and active learning classrooms

Page Lead Academic Planner Melissa Burns, AIA, and Project Academic Planner Shayne Sobell, AIA, explore why the traditional instructional model has evolved and the space requirements...
Nov. 4, 2024
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Libraries

Reasons to reinvent the Midcentury academic library

The academic library continues to transform since its inception, dating back to the 1600s when John Harvard donated hundreds of his personal books to create the Harvard University...
Oct. 30, 2024
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University Buildings

Recreation and wellness are bedfellows in new campus student centers

Student demands for amenities and services that address their emotional and mental wellbeing are impacting new development on college campuses that has led to recreation centers...
Oct. 15, 2024
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Higher Education

Higher education design for the first-gen college student

College is a time for aspiring students to discover their identities, develop a career pathway, and find their place in the world. The transition from living at home through high...
Oct. 14, 2024

AEC Tech Innovation

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AEC Tech

How AI can augment the design visualization process

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is rapidly becoming ubiquitous in our everyday lives. We see it being integrated into a wide range of products and technologies, from smartphones ...
Oct. 16, 2024
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3D Printing

3D-printed construction milestones take shape in Tennessee and Texas

Two notable 3D-printed projects mark milestones in the new construction technique of “printing” structures with specialized concrete.In Athens, Tennessee, Walmart hired Alquist...
Oct. 9, 2024
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AEC Tech Innovation

New ABC technology report examines how AI can enhance efficiency, innovation

The latest annual technology report from Associated Builders and Contractors delves into how artificial intelligence can enhance efficiency and innovation in the construction ...
Oct. 8, 2024
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AEC Tech

Publication explores how facility managers can use AI

A new guide, “Gamechanger: A Facility Manager’s Guide to Building a Relationship with AI,” provides a roadmap to understanding and using AI in the built environment.Released by...
Oct. 4, 2024

Office+Workplace

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Office Buildings

Shrinking space: Post-pandemic law firm offices are smaller and more communal

Cafes, huddle spaces, and hybrid work are replacing the huge corner office for many attorneys.
Nov. 19, 2024
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Office Buildings

Downsizing, vacancies persist despite return-to-office mandates

In its latest U.S. industrial market report, CommercialEdge research shows that while some markets continue to lead the nation in office rent growth, non-coastal Sunbelt cities...
Nov. 4, 2024
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Office Buildings

Editorial call for Office Building project case studies

BD+C editors are looking to feature a roundup of office building projects for 2024, including office-to-residential conversions. Deadline for submission: December 6, 2024.
Oct. 29, 2024
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Office Buildings

3 surprises impacting the return to the office

Research often measures and confirms what we, as designers and strategists, may intuitively believe based on our experience and practice. As a researcher, I love uncovering surprises...
Oct. 21, 2024

Cultural Facilities

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Performing Arts Centers

The New Jersey Performing Arts Center breaks ground on $336 million redevelopment of its 12-acre campus

In Newark, N.J., the New Jersey Performing Arts Center (NJPAC) has broken grown on the three-year, $336 million redevelopment of its 12-acre campus.The project will provide downtown...
Oct. 21, 2024
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Performing Arts Centers

A famed performing arts center gets its first facelift in 25 years

The open-air Delacorte Theater in New York City’s Central Park, which since 1962 has been presenting free Shakespeare in the Park and other classical plays, has been undergoing...
Oct. 16, 2024
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Performing Arts Centers

Studio Gang's performing arts center for Hudson Valley Shakespeare breaks ground

A new permanent home for Hudson Valley Shakespeare, a professional non-profit theater company, recently broke ground in Garrison, N.Y. The Samuel H. Scripps Theater Center includes...
Oct. 10, 2024
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Museums

UT Dallas opens Morphosis-designed Crow Museum of Asian Art

In Richardson, Tex., the University of Texas at Dallas has opened a second location for the Crow Museum of Asian Art—the first of multiple buildings that will be part of a 12-...
Oct. 1, 2024

Retail Buildings

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Mixed-Use

New mixed-use tower by Studio Gang completes first phase of San Francisco waterfront redevelopment

Construction was recently completed on Verde, a new mixed-use tower along the San Francisco waterfront, marking the end of the first phase of the Mission Rock development. Verde...
Oct. 7, 2024
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The Changing Built Environment

Half-century real estate data shows top cities for multifamily housing, self-storage, and more

Over the last 50 years, the U.S. has changed in numerous ways. The rise in technological innovation, population growth, and the constant push for urban development are just a ...
Sept. 23, 2024
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Mixed-Use

A Toronto development will transform a 32-acre shopping center site into a mixed-use urban neighborhood

Toronto developers Mattamy Homes and QuadReal Property Group have launched The Clove, the first phase in the Cloverdale, a $6 billion multi-tower development. The project will...
Sept. 20, 2024
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3D Printing

Alquist 3D and Walmart complete one of the nation’s largest free-standing, 3D-printed commercial structures

Walmart has completed one of the largest free-standing, 3D-printed commercial structures in the US. Alquist 3D printed the almost 8,000-sf, 20-foot-high addition to a Walmart ...
Sept. 17, 2024

Hotel Facilities

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Casinos

New luxury resort casino will be regional draw for Shreveport, Louisiana area

Live! Casino & Hotel Louisiana, the first land-based casino in the Shreveport-Bossier market, recently topped off. The $270+ project will serve as a regional destination for...
July 26, 2024
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Smart Buildings

A Swiss startup devises an intelligent photovoltaic façade that tracks and moves with the sun

A Swiss startup, Zurich Soft Robotics, has devised a photovoltaic façade that tracks and moves with the sun. The company calls Solskin the first commercially available intelligent...
July 25, 2024
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Events Facilities

Raleigh to start construction on convention center expansion

The city of Raleigh, N.C., is ready to break ground on the $387.5 million expansion of its Raleigh Convention Center that will add 300,000 sf to the facility, bringing its total...
May 8, 2024
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Hotel Facilities

The U.S. hotel construction market sees record highs in the first quarter of 2024

As seen in the Q1 2024 U.S. Hotel Construction Pipeline Trend Report from Lodging Econometrics (LE), at the end of the first quarter, there are 6,065 projects with 702,990 rooms...
April 24, 2024

Sports Facilities

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Sports and Recreational Facilities

Rainwater harvesting and reuse water systems for sports venues

In the quest for sustainability, sports venues are turning to innovative solutions like rainwater harvesting and water reuse systems.
Nov. 14, 2024
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Sports and Recreational Facilities

Smart stadiums: The future of sports and entertainment venues

The convergence of technology and sports has given rise to a new class of venues: smart stadiums. These digitally-enhanced and connected spaces are designed to revolutionize the...
July 15, 2024
Top 70 Sports Facility Construction Firms for 2023 photo Central Bank Center and Rupp Arena in Lexington, Ky., underwent a $300+ million multi-phased, occupied modernization and expansion
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Top 70 Sports Facility Construction Firms for 2023

AECOM, Turner Construction, Clark Group, Mortenson head BD+C's ranking of the nation's largest sports facility contractors and construction management (CM) firms for 2023, as ...
Oct. 17, 2023
Top 130 Sports Facility Architecture Firms for 2023 photo The Alabama A&M University Event Center, designed by Moody Nolan,
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Top 130 Sports Facility Architecture Firms for 2023

Populous, Gensler, HOK, and HKS head BD+C's ranking of the nation's largest sports facility architecture and architecture/engineering (AE) firms for 2023, as reported in Building...
Oct. 17, 2023

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Airports

Federal Aviation Administration awards nearly $1 billion for airport construction

Projects at 125 airports will help improve the passenger experience, build more features that enhance accessibility for those with disabilities, and improve sustainability.
Nov. 4, 2024
Portland opens $2 billion mass timber expansion and renovation to its international airport. Photo: Ema Peter, courtesy ZGF
Airports

Portland opens $2 billion mass timber expansion and renovation to its international airport

This month, the Portland International Airport (PDX) main terminal expansion opened to passengers. Designed by ZGF for the Port of Portland, the one-million-sf project doubles...
Aug. 22, 2024
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Airports

SOM unveils ‘branching’ structural design for new Satellite Concourse 1 at O’Hare Airport

The Chicago Department of Aviation has revealed the design for Satellite Concourse 1 at O’Hare International Airport, one of the nation’s business airports.Designed by Skidmore...
June 3, 2024
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Top building products for May 2024

Building Design+Construction editors bring you the top building products for the month of May. Collected across a variety of building sectors, these products block solar heat,...
May 31, 2024