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Codes and Standards
First resilience benchmarks for U.S. communities released
First-of-their-kind resilience benchmarks for U.S. communities that can be used to evaluate the…
Multifamily Housing
Micro-units: Good for the city? Good for citizens?
As economically booming cities such as Boston, New York, San Francisco and London struggle with…
Game Changers
In the age of Amazon there's nowhere to go but up
Ecommerce needs three times the space of any other kind of retailing.”
That observation came from…
Codes and Standards
California mass timber building competition kicks off January 15
The California Mass Timber Building Competition, meant to spur innovative designs using mass timber…
Museums
Disused British airfield to become an automotive museum
Enstone Airfield, a disused airfield near Enston in Oxfordshire, is set to become Britain’s newest…
Market Data
AIA 2019 Consensus Forecast: Nonresidential construction spending to rise 4.4%
Nonresidential construction spending on buildings is projected to grow by 4.4% through 2019,…
Game Changers
IPD super teams hit jackpot for clients
Owners, developers, and AEC firms regularly espouse the virtues of early project collaboration. But…
Codes and Standards
Hazard mitigation provisions in codes save lives and protect property
A new National Institute of Building Sciences study on hazard mitigation found that updated…
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Air barriers: Expectations vs. reality
When it comes to building performance, too much of a good thing can become a bad thing.…
High-rise Construction
AS+GG-designed tower will be the tallest in China
Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture recently won the design competition for the Shimao Shenzhen…
Interior Architecture
To get more involved earlier in projects, a leading furniture dealer launches a firm for commercial interiors construction
For many nonresidential projects, decisions about what furniture to include are often the last…
Office Buildings
Open offices are bad!
Sensationalist noise abounds on “open offices.”
They decrease face-to-face conversation and…
Warehouses
Robots are helping to ease ecommerce distribution
Machine learning is enabling a new era of warehouse automation, as operators test artificial-…
75 Top Building Products
BD+C's 101 Top Products Report for 2018
The following 101 products represent a snapshot of the products included in any of the past 15 …
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The modernization of the Cesar E. Chavez Memorial Building
Home to seven federal agencies, the Cesar E. Chavez Memorial Building, situated in the Golden…
Codes and Standards
Ontario building first to achieve zero-carbon designation by Canada GBC
Evolv1, a 110,000 sf Class A office building in Waterloo, Ont., Canada, is the first building to…
BIM and Information Technology
'BIM to AR' comes to the masses
Extended reality (XR) is in a unique phase of its life cycle. The technology is readily available…
Building Team
Skilled labor shortages continue to make off-site fabrication and construction attractive
A recent survey of AEC firms and real estate owners and developers found a strong majority that had…
High-rise Construction
Indoor-outdoor amenities open leasing value at a San Francisco skyscraper
Park Tower, a newly planned office high rise in San Francisco, has many architectural flourishes,…
AEC Tech
Our robotic future: Assessing AI's impact on the AEC profession and the built environment
In 2013, Chieh Huang and others launched Boxed, an online wholesale retailer that quickly grew to…
