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Bridging the gap: How early architect involvement can revolutionize a city’s capital improvement plans

Capital Improvement Plans (CIPs) typically span three to five years and outline future city projects and their costs. While they set the stage, the design and construction of these projects often extend beyond the CIP window, leading to a disconnect between the initial budget and evolving project scope. This can result in financial shortfalls, forcing cities to cut back on critical project features.

MFPRO+ New Projects

Luxury waterfront tower in Brooklyn features East River and Manhattan skyline views

Leasing recently began for The Dupont, a 41-story luxury rental property along the Brooklyn, N.Y., waterfront. Located within the 22-acre Greenpoint Landing, where it overlooks the newly constructed Newtown Barge Park, the high-rise features East River and Manhattan skyline views along with 20,000 sf of indoor and outdoor communal space.

Libraries

Reasons to reinvent the Midcentury academic library

DLR Group's Interior Design Leader Gretchen Holy, Assoc. IIDA, shares the idea that a designer's responsibility to embrace a library’s history, respect its past, and create an environment that will serve student populations for the next 100 years.

Resiliency

Climate change degrades buildings slowly but steadily

While natural disasters such as hurricanes and wildfires can destroy buildings in minutes, other factors exacerbated by climate change degrade buildings more slowly but still cause costly damage.

Designers

Nov 5, 2012

Trimble acquires Vico assets, extends design-build-operate capabilities

Software to add 5D management to Trimble’s Solutions for vertical construction contractors.

Georgia Techs Engineered Biosystems Building will provide 200,000 sf of researc

Nov 1, 2012

Greenbuild 2012 Report: Green Architecture Firms

Design firms deliver gold, platinum, even net-zero projects

The Millersville University housing, which will be designed in phases, will repl

Oct 30, 2012

Lord, Aeck & Sargent announces four student life facility wins

Projects recognize the architecture firm’s expertise on a nationwide basis.

Oct 30, 2012

The Beck Group announces CEO succession plan

Current Eastern Division Director and company veteran, Fred Perpall, named CEO.

The Kensington, a 27-story, 488,000-sf, mixed-use, residential building in Bosto

Oct 30, 2012

Two-hour fire rated curtain wall passes CDC tests

CDC (Curtain Wall Design and Consulting) is an independent firm providing a wide range of building envelope design, engineering, and consulting services to design professionals nationwide.

A total of 103,000 square meters of glass was used in the cladding panels, which

Oct 15, 2012

Silicones from Dow Corning solve high-altitude technical challenges at the world’s tallest tower

The spectacular Burj Khalifa skyscraper soars to 828m above ground level, holding the record for being the world’s tallest building and also for the highest installation of an aluminum and glass façade. To take on its numerous challenges and technical difficulties, it required proven silicone solutions and full support from Dow Corning.

Oct 15, 2012

Three new members elected to AISC Board of Directors

New members will immediately begin serving on the AISC Board of Directors, assisting with the organization's planning and leadership in the steel construction industry.

Oct 9, 2012

Celebrating brick in architecture

The Brick Industry Association’s 2012 Brick in Architecture Awards put the spotlight on new projects that make creative use of one of humankind’s oldest and most beloved building materials.

The design for Joplin Interim High took advantage of large openings, oversized

Oct 5, 2012

2012 Reconstruction Award Special Recognition: Joplin Interim High School, Joplin, Mo.

At 5:41 p.m. CDT on Sunday, May 22, 2011, an EF5 tornado touched down in Joplin, Mo. In the next 31 minutes, the mile-wide, multiple-vortex tornado, with winds up to 250 mph, destroyed two thousand buildings, including Joplin High and nine other schools.

In addition to achieving net-zero energy use and LEED-NC Platinum certification,

Oct 5, 2012

2012 Reconstruction Award Bronze Winner: DPR Construction, Phoenix Regional Office, Phoenix, Ariz.

Working with A/E firm SmithGroupJJR, DPR converted a vacant 16,533-sf one-time “adult-themed boutique” in the city’s reemerging Discovery Triangle into a LEED-NC Platinum office, one that is on target to be the first net-zero commercial office building in Arizona.