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Apr 26, 2018

Creating Real Estate Value with Commercial Office Reconstruction

The commercial office sector shows few signs of slowing down. According to a 2017 end-of-year survey from real estate firm Transwestern, fourth-…

Mar 23, 2018

Designing Behavioral Health Facilities

Behavioral health facility construction is experiencing a spike in the U.S., due in part to enhanced benefit provisions in the Affordable Care Act…

Jan 22, 2018

Effective Waterproofing

This session discusses several aspects of concrete, including its chemistry, advantages and disadvantages, as well as ways to protect and extend…

Oct 3, 2017

Barriers and Screens Further the Art of Cladding

Is moisture control the absolute for building design decisions? Ask users, owners, occupants, and investors—and expect a chorus of agreement. They…

May 24, 2017

MINIMIZING RISK AND OPTIMIZING CONSTRUCTION MANAGEMENT WITH RAINSCREEN SPECIFICATION

Between the mid-1980s and early 2000s, close to 160,000 multi-family, wood-frame housing units were built in British Columbia, Canada. A…

Nov 4, 2016

Sound-Masking Systems: Optimize Speech Privacy in the Workplace

Since most office-based workers spend more than half their time on focus work and on the telephone, speech privacy and noise control are vital to…

Sep 2, 2014

New developments in data center design

Data centers must accommodate massive power demand, high heat loads, strict maintenance protocols, and super-tight security. This course discusses…