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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.



Brick and Masonry

A journey through masonry reclad litigation

This blog post by Walter P Moore's Mallory Buckley, RRO, PE, BECxP + CxA+BE, and Bob Hancock, MBA, JD, of Munsch Hardt Kopf & Harr PC, explains the importance of documentation, correspondence between parties, and supporting the claims for a Plaintiff-party, while facilitating continuous use of the facility, on construction litigation projects.


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May 11, 2012

Chapter 9 The Key to Commissioning That Works? It Never Stops

Why commissioning for existing and renovated buildings needs to be continuous to be effective.

May 11, 2012

Chapter 8 High-Performance Reconstruction and Historic Preservation: Conflict and Opportunity

What historic preservationists and energy-performance advocates can learn from each other.

May 10, 2012

Chapter 7 When Modern Becomes Historic: Preserving the Modernist Building Envelope

This AIA CES Discovery course explores the special reconstruction questions posed by Modern-era buildings.

May 10, 2012

Chapter 6 Energy Codes + Reconstructed Buildings: 2012 and Beyond

Our experts analyze the next generation of energy and green building codes and how they impact reconstruction.

May 10, 2012

Chapter 5 LEED-EB and Green Globes CIEB: Rating Sustainable Reconstruction

Certification for existing buildings under these two rating programs has overtaken that for new construction.

May 10, 2012

Chapter 4 Business Case for High-Performance Reconstructed Buildings

Five reconstruction projects in one city make a bottom-line case for reconstruction across the country.

May 10, 2012

Chapter 3 How Building Technologies Contribute to Reconstruction Advances

Building Teams are employing a wide variety of components and systems in their reconstruction projects.

Drew Ballensky | May 9, 2012

Iconic UN campus in New York undergoing major renovation

The 17-acre United Nations campus along Manhattan’s East River is undergoing a $1.87-billion…
May 9, 2012

Chapter 1 Reconstruction: ‘The 99% Solution’ for Energy Savings in Buildings

As a share of total construction activity reconstruction has been on the rise in the U.S. and Canada in the last few years, which creates a golden opportunity for extensive energy savings.

May 7, 2012

4 more trends in higher-education facilities

Our series on college buildings continues with a look at new classroom designs, flexible space, collaboration areas, and the evolving role of the university library.

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