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Great Solutions: BIM/Information Technology

HKS used its ARCHengine virtual environment to allow season ticket holders to see different views…

Using Wood for Sustainable Design + Construction

Summary: Wood has long been considered an environmentally friendly resource. Today, even more focus…

Designing Brick Walls for High-Wind Regions

Brick walls may look sturdy, strong, and ready to take on the fiercest storms that Mother…

Handcrafting the Census Bureau's Hardwood Veil

Jim Whitaker will never forget the day he first met Maurice Rhude. It was early 2004…

The softer side of Sears

Built in 1928 as a shining Art Deco beacon for the upper Midwest, the Sears building in…

Creative Juxtaposition

Surrounded by history, the residents of Cambridge, Mass., understand the importance of…

Something Old, Something New

A respectful marriage of old and new elements earned a Merit Award in BD&C's 21st Annual…

Single-code saga

More than a quarter century ago, the American Institute of Architects called for a single…

Concrete Puts the Waves In Aqua

Jeanne Gang, principal of Studio/Gang/Architects in Chicago, began planning the design of Aqua, her…

Gold Award: Building in America's Last Frontier

It was a typical winter day in south central Alaska. Temperatures reached a blustery low of…

10 Rules for Designing Vapor Barriers

Improper use of vapor barriers is one of the leading causes of moisture-related issues in…

Bold Bioscience

What happens when you group 600 biologists, clinicians, engineers, chemists, physicists, and…

Positive Prognosis

There is a tide in the design and construction of hospitals, which, taken at the flood, could…

Building on Tradition

The 107-year-old Hearst Corporation, one of the world's largest diversified communications…

Space ship and spa

Silicon Valley has changed the rules, if not the economics, of the workplace: irregular…

The Green Scene: New Developments in LEED and Green Globes

The U.S. Green Building Council, which is holding its fifth Greenbuild this month in Denver,…

Timothy Haahs & Associates, Inc.

Fourteen years ago, Timothy H. Haahs, P.E., spent six months in a hospital waiting for a heart…

ASHRAE Mulls Continuous Air Barriers

A study from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) reports that continuous…

Concrete That Fears Water No More

    Since…

Organizational structure Skanska's recipe for success

The saying "the sum of the parts is greater than the whole" accurately applies to the Skanska…