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As cities grow ever more crowded, multifamily housing construction is more necessary than ever. Finding ways to compress housing into smaller spaces while still creating true homes calls for a complex blend of innovative design and engineering.

 

Aug 26, 2013

What you missed last week: Architecture billings up again; record year for hotel renovations; nation's most expensive real estate markets

BD+C's roundup of the top construction market news for the week of August 18 includes the latest architecture billings index from AIA and a BOMA study on the nation's most and least expensive commercial real estate markets. 

Aug 23, 2013

Mack Urban, West Coast real estate and development firm, formed from intercompany collaboration

Urban Partners, LLC, Harbor Urban, LLC, and Mack Real Estate Group, three leading full service real estate firms known for high quality urban infill development, today announced the formation of Mack Urban, LLC, a premier West Coast real estate investment and development company.

Aug 22, 2013

Energy-efficient glazing technology [AIA Course]

This course discuses the latest technological advances in glazing, which make possible ever more efficient enclosures with ever greater glazed area.

Aug 22, 2013

6 visionary strategies for local government projects

Civic projects in Boston, Las Vegas, Austin, and suburban Atlanta show that a ‘big vision’ can also be a spur to neighborhood revitalization. Here are six visionary strategies for local government projects. 

Aug 21, 2013

Chicago's Magellan Development Group builds national presence with new luxury apartments

Chicago-based Magellan Development Group, one of the Midwest’s most prolific large-scale, mixed-use developers, is building a national footprint through two mixed-use projects in Minneapolis and Nashville.

Aug 21, 2013

SummerHill Apartment Communities creates SoCal division, hires SVP, announces development plans

SummerHill Apartment Communities, a division of SummerHill Housing Group based in San Ramon, Calif., announced today that the firm has hired multifamily industry veteran Patrick S. Simons as senior vice president to lead SummerHill Apartment Communities' new Southern California division. Simons will be focused initially on creating a high volume of future projects throughout Southern California.

Aug 14, 2013

Green Building Report [2013 Giants 300 Report]

Building Design+Construction's rankings of the nation's largest green design and construction firms. 

Jul 25, 2013

First look: Studio Gang's residential/dining commons for University of Chicago

The University of Chicago will build a $148 million residence hall and dining commons designed by Studio Gang Architects, tentatively slated for completion in 2016.

Jul 19, 2013

Reconstruction Sector Construction Firms [2013 Giants 300 Report]

Structure Tone, DPR, Gilbane top Building Design+Construction's 2013 ranking of the largest reconstruction contractor and construction management firms in the U.S.

Jul 19, 2013

Reconstruction Sector Engineering Firms [2013 Giants 300 Report]

URS, STV, Wiss Janney Elstner top Building Design+Construction's 2013 ranking of the largest reconstruction engineering and engineering/architecture firms in the U.S.

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