USGBC recently announced the opening of the first public comment period for its draft rating system, LEED v5. This is just another step toward providing a comprehensive framework for creating sustainable, and resilient built environments.
The climate’s chaotic disposition reveals oversights commercial construction workforces have made, but these are fixable with advances in fire-resistant building materials and resilient envelopes.
A wonderful story of adaptive reuse, the former steel plant turned 2023 AIA Committee on the Environment Top Ten Award Winner features three connected buildings, now home to robotics, manufacturing and high-tech companies.
Converting a brownfield site with demolished buildings and abandoned parking lots into a sleek curtainwall and metal paneled mid-rise, Brown & Brown’s new 11-story headquarters is a classic architectural tale of a phoenix rising from the ashes in downtown Daytona Beach.
We caught up with the CEO of IIBEC, Brian Pallasch, at this year’s convention and trade show to chat about the show and their plans beyond. Listen in as Brian talks about the IIBEC/OBEC Symposium happening in Toronto this Fall, and what makes the symposium different this year.
The reborn Smith Elementary is a near-twin of a second K-5 school, also recently opened, to replace a 70-year-old facility elsewhere in the region. Both schools feature identical floorplans, but designers with Pfluger Architects’ Austin office wanted to give each exterior unique identities, and metal wall panels offered a great option given the profile and color options now available.
Embarking on an important new chapter, the leading women’s advocacy organization Beverly Willis Architecture Foundation (BWAF) has announced the appointment of Tizziana Baldenebro.
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