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Urban Planning

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.



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Aug 11, 2010

Perkins Eastman awarded Indian School of Business campus

The New York office of international design and architecture firm Perkins Eastman has been commissioned by the Indian School of Business for a 70-acre, 1.5 million-sf new business school campus as part of a 300-acre “Knowledge City” in Chandigarh, Mohali, India. The sustainable campus will accommodate four centers of excellence: healthcare management, public policy, manufacturing/ operations, and physical infrastructure management.
Aug 11, 2010

Portland Cement Association offers blast resistant design guide for reinforced concrete structures

Developed for designers and engineers, "Blast Resistant Design Guide for Reinforced Concrete Structures" provides a practical treatment of the design of cast-in-place reinforced concrete structures to resist the effects of blast loads.  It explains the principles of blast-resistant design, and how to determine the kind and degree of resistance a structure needs as well as how to specify the required materials and details.
Aug 11, 2010

NASA plans federal government's greenest building

NASA is set to break ground on what the agency expects will become the highest performing building in the federal government. Named Sustainability Base, the new building at Ames Research Center in Sunnyvale, Calif., will be a showplace for sustainable technologies, featuring "NASA Inside" through the incorporation of some of the agency’s most advanced recycling and intelligent controls technologies originally developed to support NASA’s human and robotic space exploration missions.
Aug 11, 2010

Harvard Law School Wood-Framed Houses
Cambridge, Mass.

A century ago, majestic Victorian homes lined Massachusetts Avenue in Boston, but few of these grande dames still survive. Harvard Law School owned three such beauties, which they used for office and research space. Unfortunately, the houses occupied prime real estate on which the school planned to build a new academic center. Rather than raze the historic wood-frame homes, the law school made it a priority to repurpose them.
Aug 11, 2010

ModSpace's Tour du Rouge raises over $500,000 for Gulf Coast Red Cross chapters

HOUSTON-June 11, 2009- The American Red Cross inaugural Tour du Rouge raised approximately $500,000…
Aug 11, 2010

Cubellis and D. Stephenson Construction awarded 'green' library project for Dania Beach, Fla.

Fort Lauderdale, FL- Thursday, June 11, 2009 - Cubellis, an international architectural, interior…
Aug 11, 2010

Chicago Architecture Foundation events for June, July  2009 - new evening cruises aboard Chicago's First Lady

Chicago Architecture Foundation’s River Cruise aboard Chicago’s First Lady is cruising. New this…
Aug 11, 2010

Ware Malcomb announces opening of 11th office, this one in Panama

Wednesday, June 24, 2009 - Panama City, Panama – Ware Malcomb (www.waremalcomb.com),  a leading…
Aug 11, 2010

Rice concrete can cut greenhouse emissions

Rajan Vempati of ChK Group, Inc. in Plano, Texas, and a team of researchers found a way to make nearly carbon-free rice husk ash for concrete, which can lead to a boom in green construction.
Aug 11, 2010

Building design giant LEO A DALY hires retired Army colonel Richard Onken in its healthcare division

Omaha, Neb. – September 14, 2009 - Retired Lt. Col. Richard J. Onken has joined international…
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