“To move forward, you have to give back.” - Oprah Winfrey A Harvard Business Review survey recently reported that 70% of Americans believe it’s “important” for companies to make the world a better place. We couldn’t agree more, and that’s why we established the...
Hillel Day School has begun an “Open Space, Open Minds” athletic capital campaign to help fund the expansion and enhancement of Hillel’s outdoor athletic facilities. Currently, Hillel lacks a quality field that students can use year-round and after inclement weather,...
Many in-person industry events are back on this year. Here is the full rundown. While the COVID-19 omicron variant continues to spread, with vaccinations and booster shots available, many in-person conventions are back on for this year. Read on for a list of major...
WARREN — A disk swing, castle-style playscape, swings, slides, benches, stand-up spinner and more will soon welcome adventurous children at the Academy of Warren, or AOW, located at 13943 E. Eight Mile Road. School officials are in the process of building a...
As state agencies wait on a possible infrastructure bill from the Biden administration, many are better prepared than they were a decade ago to manage hundreds of billions of dollars in new work. The Federal Highway Administration incentivized state DOTs to...
2020 has been undeniably a devastating year for everyone and every field. The lockdowns, quarantines, social distancing, and the casualties caused by the virus has shaken humanity beyond imagination. Although the construction sector faced a significantly worst side...
When it comes to designing and building new student housing, speed is typically of the essence as colleges and universities are eager to get those beds online as quickly as possible. For schools in regions with inclement winter weather, speed takes on additional...
K-12 schools in Mississippi began reopening in late July. By August 13, 39 counties—half of that state’s total—had schools reporting positive coronavirus cases that included 109 teachers and 69 students. More than 250 teachers and staff and 489 students were...
WHAT MAKES THE ROLE OF LIBRARIES UNIQUE DURING THIS TIME OF SOCIAL DISTANCING? Libraries always have been asked to do a great deal to serve the public and a wide variety of people—from balancing traditional print media with high-tech services, to serving as a quiet...
In rural Iowa, just one of the 875 students on Cornell College’s campus has tested positive for the coronavirus this semester. At Amherst College in Massachusetts, the number of undergraduate virus cases has been a bit higher: three. And Colby College’s rigorous...
When Oronde Kearney became the Chief Academic Officer at Academy of Warren (AOW) three years ago, his first impression was simple: this is a wonderful school in a less-than-wonderful environment. Back before it was a school, the AOW building used to be a supermarket,...
The Academy of Warren broke ground on a $9.7 million expansion of its existing school facility last week that will also include approximately 100,000 square feet of interior updates. The school is located on East Eight Mile Road in Warren. The revitalization of the...
With campus cultures rooted in socialization, communal activities, and interdisciplinary collaborations, colleges and universities around the globe face big unknowns in the face of COVID-19 disruptions and recovery. What is known is that higher education in the era of...
COVID-19 Campus Reboot Guide provides advice on how to optimize space to promote social distancing, methods to increase cleanliness, and how to repurpose larger spaces for instruction. The guide includes diagrams that describe how to revamp spaces to make them safer...
The 2020 coronavirus pandemic is already creating change in every part of society. Harnessing this change should be the impetus for a long-overdue overhaul of the educational system and, in particular, the way we teach architecture. Each day during the pandemic, we...
Following modest increases in construction spending for nonresidential buildings in 2019, economists from eight leading industry organizations forecast slight growth in 2020 and 2021—1.5% and 0.9%, according to AIA's latest Consensus Construction Forecast panel....
Mary Warren received her sociology Ph.D. at Arizona State University in 1997—and enjoyed her time at the Tempe campus so much she has decided to go back and live there. The 72-year-old recently paid around $500,000 for a two-bedroom apartment at Mirabella, a 252-unit...
Developers are waving goodbye to empty construction costs as they place greater emphasis on the future use of projects as opposed to traditional, initial costs for materials and a layout that doesn’t maximize space usage, according to Rob Budetti, partner at AO...
For many institutions, this has been a call-to-action to challenge the status quo and plan for the future in a new way — creating master plans that focus on data-driven outcomes that will sustain and advance their long-term goals. For departments of science, the...
An annual report from Hodes Weill and Columbia University shows real estate remains a preferred asset class among global institutions. Global institutions continue to raise their allocations to real estate, according to the latest Allocation Monitor survey from Hodes...
Bad libraries build collections, good libraries build services, great libraries build communities.” That statement by R. David Lankes, a professor at Syracuse University’s School of Information Studies, was a bit controversial when he tweeted it back in February of...
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