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Data Centers Report: Demand ‘exploding’
Demand for data centers is “exploding,” says Raj Gupta, PE, LEED AP, CEO of Environmental Systems…
Office Report: Fitouts, renovations keep sector moving
Is there life after death? Judging by the commercial office sector, maybe there is. After several…
K-12 Schools Report: ‘A lot of pent-up need,’ with optimism for ’13
School districts are demanding project-based learning environments that use a combination of…
Higher education market holding steady
Higher education has historically been a mainstay for many AEC firms, but the economic downturn…
3 important trends in hospital design that Healthcare Giants are watching closely
The healthcare sector faces grave financial uncertainties, even with the June 28 Supreme Court…
Global boom for hotels; for retail, not so much
High-end hotels in the U.S. have been having a good 2012 and can expect to do even better next year…
Firms bracing for DoD cuts
With the funding for Base Realignment and Closure (BRAC) pretty much dwindling away, Giants firms…
Gensler, Stantec, Turner lead ‘green’ firms
With the green building movement now in its second decade, Giants 300 firms have made…
Bayview Property Managers agrees to record $800,000 building code fine
A San Francisco property-management company has agreed to pay a record $800,000 civil fine for…
Renovation resurgence cuts across sectors
Reconstruction work is alive and kicking for many AEC firms. “Higher education is huge for us, and…
Glass ‘biodome’ helps Parkview Green FangCaoDi project in Beijing achieve LEED Platinum
A glass envelope acting as a kind of biodome encapsulates four mixed-use towers at Parkview Green…
UMass-Boston's Bevington: 'Financing alternatives crucial to energy-efficiency upgrades'
Current energy efficiency incentive programs typically administered through utilities have yielded…
NYC eases building code to create ‘micro apartments’ in Kips Bay
New York City has implemented a program to encourage construction of "micro-apartments" in the Big…
NRCA: Roofing insulation performance, local climate keys to computing R-value
To minimize the loss of thermal resistance in design, the R-value of roof insulation should be…
Giants 300 keep pluggin’ along
Here’s what Rich Tilghman, SVP at Pepper Construction, told me recently: “What surprises me more…
Rental market pushing service, ‘community’
Except for a few pockets of ultra-luxury condo action—New York, San Francisco, and parts of Florida…
AEC firms ready to dive into public projects
Government work is scattered among dozens of federal civilian agencies, the Pentagon and the…
BIM finally starting to pay off for AEC firms
BIM has been paying off for AE firm NELSON. “Once a team becomes proficient in the BIM process, we…
Contractors finally ‘moving off the bottom’
Two of the biggest players in nonresidential construction are predicting a turnaround in the…
The best states for a construction job
In the construction industry, jobs are hard to come by. But a June report released by the…
