To meet the University’s requirements for a highly sustainable, energy-efficient design with a minimum of 30 percent glazing, the team utilized Honeybee software linked to Grasshopper/Rhino to run detailed daylighting, comfort, and energy calculations.
In 2019, University of Cincinnati Health announced its $221 million Clifton Campus Revitalization project. The goal of the project is to create innovative environments that reflect the expertise and passion happening within its medical center every day.
For over 120 years, the NFPA’s Standard 780 has stood as the definitive guide for effective lightning protection. Within the standard lies a crucial tool: the Simplified Risk Calculator, designed to quantify lightning risk for specific structures, empowering architects and engineers to shield properties from nature’s electric wrath.
The renovation work for the 1960s-1970s era original brick façade buildings included extensive interior and exterior work, the complete resurfacing of the buildings’ façades and the replacement of all windows.
On campus, a new bridge designed by architect Smith Group, Denver, CO was built between the Maverick Center and the Maverick Pavilion that now connects an expanded indoor track above five new basketball/volleyball courts, a new classroom, and an athletic training lab.
The International Code Council continued its annual participation at the United Nations Climate Change Conference this year, wrapping up COP28 in mid-December. Ryan Colker, ICC’s Vice President of Innovation, and Judy Zakreski, Senior Vice President of Global Operations and Solutions, joined us recently to talk about some highlights from this year.
Now a recently completed 243-unit apartment building has taken its place in a development that also has added public access to the river for boaters, cyclists and pedestrians. The metal-clad façade creates a clean-lined appearance that allows the surrounding environment to take center stage.
One of the oldest buildings at UC Davis and located in the heart of campus, the project transformed a vacant, seismically unsafe building into a dynamic multi-functional graduate and professional student center complex with meeting rooms, a lecture hall, and sophisticated active-learning classrooms that serves the entire campus.
Statewide energy codes are important for several reasons—not the least of which are reduced energy consumption, mitigated greenhouse gas emissions, minimized building operational costs, and improved climate resilience. Yet, at the time of this writing, ten states do not have a statewide commercial energy code.