4 ways AI impacts building design beyond dramatic imagery

Kristen Forward, Design Technology Futures Leader, NBBJ, shows four ways the firm is using AI to generate value for its clients.

Digital twins: Transforming operations for greater efficiency

While efforts to improve building efficiency have been iterative, recent advancements have significantly enhanced the interaction between facility managers, building owners, and their facilities.

The future of affordable housing may be modular, AI-driven, and made of mushrooms

Demolished in 1989, The Phoenix Ironworks Steel Factory left a five-acre hole in West Oakland, Calif. After sitting vacant for nearly three decades, the site will soon become utilized again in the form of 316 affordable housing units.

Great Solutions

41 Great Solutions for architects, engineers, and contractors

AI ChatBots, ambient computing, floating MRIs, low-carbon cement, sunshine on demand, next-generation top-down construction. These and 35 other innovations make up our 2024 Great Solutions Report, which highlights fresh ideas and innovations from leading architecture, engineering, and construction firms.

BIM and IT are subject matter that every member of the building team should have some kind of handle on, and that everyone can derive some benefit from. Whether it’s an app to help with cost control or an optimized building design achieved through BIM, these technologies can bring your projects to the next level and beyond.

The Building Team preserved more than 65,000 glass blocks, which, if laid end to

Oct 4, 2012

2012 Reconstruction Awards Gold Winner: Wake Forest Biotech Place, Winston-Salem, N.C.

Reconstruction centered on Building 91.1, a historic (1937) five-story former machine shop, with its distinctive façade of glass blocks, many of which were damaged. The Building Team repointed, relocated, or replaced 65,869 glass blocks.

To date, $5.2 billion worth of live projects have used MySmartPlans, including m

Oct 4, 2012

Electronic power tool builds project transparency

As building projects have grown in scope and complexity, so, too, has the task of document management. A new online tool is helping Building Teams meet that demand.

SHoP Construction is project integrator for the B2 Modular High Rise Housing @ A

Aug 8, 2012

BIM’s future up in the cloud

The AEC industry is on the cusp of a still more significant evolution with cloud computing.

By utilizing the 415/240 V AC power distribution system, which is standard in mo

Jul 9, 2012

Integrated Design Group completes UCSB data center

Firm uses European standard of power at USCB North Hall Research Data Center.

Jul 3, 2012

Trimble to acquire WinEstimator

Acquisition adds estimating software solutions to Meridian Systems’ portfolio.

Jun 1, 2012

New BD+C University Course on Insulated Metal Panels available

By completing this course, you earn 1.0 HSW/SD AIA Learning Units.

Andrew C. Caruso, AIA, LEED AP BD+C, CDT

Jun 1, 2012

Caruso to lead Gensler’s Asia talent development

Caruso will be based in Shanghai and working with the Gensler offices in Japan, China, South Korea, Singapore, Thailand, and India until the spring of 2013.