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News briefs

Manhattan retail is economic contrarian. While the national economy is in the doldrums,…

BD+C Video: Perkins Eastman’s Brad Perkins, FAIA, on senior living

Building Design+Construction’s January 2009 issue features the top 10 design trends in senior…

Restoration Completed At The Jewish Museum

Like so many older buildings, The Jewish Museum was losing its battle with the weather and…

Norman Foster receives 2009 Prince of Asturias Award for the Arts

Norman Foster has been bestowed the 2009 Prince of Asturias Award for the Arts. The decision was…

International Code Council, Cengage Learning launch online resource for green building

The International Code Council, a membership association dedicated to building safety and fire…

Summit focuses on reducing greenhouse gas emissions

Speakers at the first Green Real Estate Summit, which took place March 5, 2008, at the Practising…

ThyssenKrupp Elevator Architecture Award competition draws 4,651 architects from 108 countries

Participants are submitting design proposals for a Tall Emblem Structure in Za’abeel Park in the…

Johnson Controls and FirstRand Bank sign agreement under Clinton Climate Initiative; first CCI agreement in South Africa seeks to reduce energy consumption

MILWAUKEE (March 23, 2009) – Johnson Controls, Inc. (NYSE: JCI) has entered into a project…

Computing vibrations

PC-compatible vibration software allows professional engineers to easily determine the probable…

Guggenheim to host live online discussion of Frank Lloyd Wright exhibition

The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum launches the Guggenheim Forum, a new series of moderated online…

Ancient secrets of heat mitigation

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

Best AEC Firms of 2011/12

In late 2011, Building Design+Construction began a search looking for the “best AEC firms to work…

Manitoba Hydro Place, Tornado Tower among world's 'best tall buildings,' according to the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat

Linked Hybrid, Beijing, China                    The Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (…

SchenkelSchultz Architecture promotes Timothy A. Wagoner, AIA, to principal of Orlando, Fla., firm

January 23, 2009      Contact:  Kenneth H. Cristol 407-774-2515 ORLANDO, FL – SchenkelShultz…

Autodesk's Revit BIM program reaches the 100,000 user mark

San Rafael, Calif.-based Autodesk, Inc., a manufacturer of architectural design software, announced…

Contractor Gains Two Shoring Projects

Portland – Scheffler Northwest, Inc., a specialty drilling, shoring and construction firm, has…

Designing for the big boom

The first baby boomers entering retirement this year mark the start of an inevitably…

Pentagon emerges from rubble

Reconstruction and a resumption of renovation efforts will follow cleanup of the Sept. 11…

Change orders: An unhappy necessity

Change orders present one of the greatest sources of misunderstanding and conflict on…

Southern Illinois Miners' Baseball Stadium Progresses in Marion 

The 2007 baseball season hasn't begun yet, but the Southern Illinois Miners have already hit…