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Correctional security: Costs vs. benefits

While the costs for maintaining America's prisons is staggeringly high, building teams are finding…

Wal-Mart heiress backs hometown art museum

Alice Walton, daughter of Wal-Mart founder Sam Walton, unveiled plans in May for a $50 million…

California Academy of Science gets a massive solar canopy

    More than 700 photovoltaic glass laminates   will top San Francisco’s new 370,000-sf  …

It's all in the box

A single-box solution for digital video recording, access control and alarm monitoring is for…

New York gets a state-of-the-art emergency management center

The $50 million, 65,000-sf headquarters in downtown Brooklyn for New York City's Office of…

Chicago Marriott gets a makeover

            Chicago-based general contractor Bulley & Andrews recently completed a multi-…

Speed, integration pose concerns for World Trade Center site

Though the Lower Manhattan Development Corp. (LMDC) has pushed back its date for the…

New condominiums planned for Las Vegas

San Diego-based Graham Downes Architecture has begun design work on ArtHaus, a 132,000-sf…

Residence hall is New Hampshire's first LEED Gold dormitory

Plymouth State University's newly completed Langdon Woods residence hall is the first college…

Retail construction: a mixed bag

While retail construction spending is 15% higher than a year ago, it's experienced no spending…

Philadelphia cancer center seeks LEED certification

The New York office of Thornton Tomasetti provided structural engineering…

Resilient recycled rubber

ECOsurfaces is a floor covering for corporate, retail and institutional applications. Four-ft.-wide…

U.S. Capitol complex to become a model of green

Red, white, and blue are the colors most frequently associated with the U.S. government, but…

BD+C editors win journalism honors for White Paper

Building Design+Construction has received the Boger Special Reports Award from the…

Learning opportunities abound at Springfield Literacy Center

The 50,000-sf Springfield (Pa.) Literacy Center was designed with several goals in mind: to…

Office market looks weak through 2010

The outlook for office development, which quickly deteriorated in late 2008, will continue to…

Vital signs strong for healthcare construction

The last three years have been good ones for the health sector. This year started out somewhat…

Ancient secrets of heat mitigation

One of the oldest means of cooling buildings is certainly evaporative cooling. In the 19th-century…

New community rises on old brownfield site

A 138-acre contaminated steel mill site in Atlanta's Midtown area has been converted into a…

Residential complex planned for Arlington

Design is under way for 2000 Wilson Blvd., a 226,000-sf multifamily residential community that…