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Multifamily Housing

50 Penn breaks ground in New York, will provide 218 units of affordable housing

50 Penn, a transit-oriented, mixed-use development in the Cypress Hill area of East New York,…
Market Data

Spending on nonresidential construction takes a step back in August

National nonresidential construction spending declined 0.4% in August, according to an Associated…
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Builder spotlight: JEBCO Construction

The construction industry may not be the first category that comes to mind when searching for fun…
Wood

Why mass timber?

Human migration towards city centers has triggered massive building booms all over the world. With…
Libraries

Temple University’s Charles Library includes a ‘BookBot’ storage and retrieval system

As part of a $1.2 billion capital improvement program for Temple University’s Main Campus, the…
Healthcare Facilities

Medical offices are filling space vacated by retail

The 1.2 million-sf shopping mall Rosedale Center in Roseville, Minn., yesterday disclosed its plans…
Mixed-Use

KPF breaks ground on West Lake 66 mixed-use development in Hangzhou

Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates (KPF) has officially broken ground on West Lake 66 in Hangzhou, China…
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Unique fitness: Bringing an abandoned space back to life

Retrofit projects are extremely varied and diverse in nature. From taking a former strip mall and…
Sports and Recreational Facilities

Fortress Melbourne will be the largest eSports complex in the southern hemisphere

Fortress Melbourne, destined to become the largest eSports complex in the southern hemisphere, will…
University Buildings

UMass Amherst’s Worcester Commons to be built on an existing parking lot

Rising on the site of an existing parking lot, UMass Amherst’s new 87,000-sf Worcester Commons will…
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150 North Riverside, Chicago, IL

A paradox of architecture is that sometimes the constraints of a site location actually end up…
Codes and Standards

Open source tool allows comparison of embodied carbon emissions from construction materials

The Carbon Leadership Forum has released the Embodied Carbon in Construction Calculator (“EC3”)…
Codes and Standards

AIA declaration: Climate change requires ‘holistic approach’

The American Institute of Architects outlines an initial path forward for the organization and…
Market Data

The global hotel construction pipeline ascends to new record highs

Lodging Econometrics (LE) recently compiled construction pipeline counts for every country and…

Healthcare as a workplace: 5 ways workplace strategy can impact healthcare design

In recent decades, our relationship with the workplace has been transformed by the tech industry,…
AEC Tech

Dual, often incompatible, management systems add work and cost to projects

A new survey of building owners and contractors highlights the challenges of managing construction…
Codes and Standards

San Jose’s new building energy code is the most stringent among large cities

San Jose recently passed a new building energy code with the goal of making zero-emission electric…
Codes and Standards

Building support for climate action depends on linking it to health, economic benefits

Generating public support for climate action may require more extensive education about the health…
Libraries

Hunters Point Library brings rooftop reading garden, community-devoted space to the Long Island City waterfront

The recently opened Queens Public Library at Hunters Point forgoes the recent trend of…

Digitizing the last frontier

Digitization in the construction industry is only just getting started. There are two ways to read…