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Project Profiles

Metal Ceilings Revitalize Station's Design

After 40 years of continuous use, the station was ready for an update. Based on the ceiling's reliable performance, MARTA once again selected metal ceiling systems as the basis of …
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Project Profiles

Glass Enhances Sustainable Design of Award-Winning Building

Glass products promote daylighting, energy performance for new design center at University of Massachusetts …
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Pitched Roofs

Constructing Solar Panels for Maximum Solar Gain

The owner’s goal was to construct a multi-purpose building that would also serve as a mounting platform for a 28.35 kilowatt PV solar system, which would provide 100% of the …
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Project Profiles

A New Building for Today's Workforce in Boulder

Imagine a corporate headquarters designed to maximize both human and environmental health …
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Building Envelope

Plaza Insulates Cold Balconies from Warm Slabs

The design team, consisting of ZGF Cotter Architects, Fast + Epp structural engineers, and ITC Construction Group, paid close attention to energy-saving measures at the building envelope to minimize costs …
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Strategies for Retrofitting School Buildings for Sustainability

Evelyn Long
Many American schools are aging. Nearly 50% of U.S. schools date back to between 1950 and 1969. It’s not surprising that these buildings aren’t sustainable …
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Sustainability

Analyzing the New 2021 Energy Codes and Beyond

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Lindsay Lewis
The energy efficiency of buildings is the main goal of these code changes, with the hope that the efficiency of all buildings (residential and commercial) will rise by about 10 …
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