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Garland’s new brochure outlines its building envelope capabilities to help educate customers on the company’s expansive line of products and services.

The approximately 430,000 square foot development reinvigorates the downtown area with its visually-compelling profile and its capacity for new business, entertainment, and residences

Today, building facades are expected to do much more than provide shelter. As a result, building envelopes have become one of the highest-risk items on construction projects

The development process for U.S. building codes is rigorous and deliberative. Because the process results in the best thinking of a large group of experts, building codes can help drive innovation in design and construction

More stringent building codes, advances in building science and building owners’ desire for more comfortable environments are driving increased interest in the role of continuous insulation

In this age of green imperatives, architects designing commercial and institutional structures are usually on the lookout for ways to add incrementally to a building’s overall energy efficiency

The new legislation requires that any building 25,000 square feet or larger will need to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions by 40 percent by 2030 from a 2005 baseline, increasing to an 80 percent reduction requirement by 2050

What might initially appear to be minor changes to referenced documents may actually give us a glimpse into big changes on the horizon for how we approach building commissioning

Air within the envelope of a building is subject to air infiltration, exfiltration and the three modes of heat transfer: conduction, convection and radiation

Holy Name of Jesus Cathedral, a new, sprawling project with a Romanesque-inspired design built with modern building materials