When researchers at FMI Corporation first looked at design-build utilization in 2018, the news confirmed what many in the industry knew first-hand, design-build wasn't an "alternative delivery process" anymore. New market analysis forecasting the next five years,...
How Community Participation Can Assist in Architectural and Urban Post-Disaster Reconstruction
The concepts of autonomy, collaboration, and participation have gained relevance in architecture and urbanism through collaborative actions involving the community, architects, urban planners, and designers. As the number of climate disasters has significantly...
Architectural Reuse Council Will Step Up Efforts to Reuse Construction Waste
The Architectural Reuse Council (ARC) was recently formed to maximize building material diversion and reuse. The San Diego-based group aims to foster more salvage and reuse of material through education and outreach. The group is composed of reuse experts that...
Architecture Post COVID-19: the Profession, the Firms, and the Individuals
As the world is slowly reopening, easing lockdown measures, everyone is adapting to new realities. Imposing drastic adjustments to our lives, the coronavirus has introduced a new “normal”, changing our perceptions and altering our priorities. Driven towards...
States Reopen Construction With New Practices
As states around the country gradually reopen from the coronavirus shutdown, contractors are being challenged to operate in new ways to prevent the spread of the virus and to accept a slower pace of work as the new normal. “These things have slowed the process of...
COVID-19 is Accelerating Technology Growth and Adoption
The coronavirus pandemic is accelerating some market trends that had already taken root before the outbreak. Ecommerce has been the most discussed, but technology trends will also accelerate as a result of the pandemic. The tech industry is already a major driver of...
Projection Mapping Takes Center Court
Last winter, basketball fans at Oracle Arena, then-home to the Golden State Warriors, were introduced to the PlayStation game God of War. In an elaborate, multimedia promotion, animated content took over the arena’s massive, overhanging score board and ribbon...
Covid-19 is Redefining Infrastructure Investments
Governments worldwide are facing difficult decisions about diverting funds from long-planned infrastructure projects as the novel coronavirus pandemic wreaks havoc on their budgets. Maintaining essential projects will likely mean a greater reliance on public-private...
Canada Green Building Council Says Building Industry Lacks Zero-Carbon Skills, Knowledge
Anew study by Canada Green Building Council (CaGBC) shows that the building industry has more work ahead of it to ensure professionals have access to the skills and knowledge required to deliver zero-carbon buildings at scale. “Transitioning to zero carbon buildings...
How Construction Firms Can Prepare for a Potential Second Wave of COVID-19
Although many coronavirus-related shutdown and stay-at-home orders are in still in place, the U.S. is on the road to loosening restrictions to keep the outbreak at bay. Since several areas of construction were considered essential, the industry has a leg up on others...
Designing Resilient Libraries for a Post-Covid World
The Coronavirus Pandemic forced 98% of all public libraries across the United States to close in April (American Library Association). While we miss our libraries, it’s been inspiring to see the creativity and dedication library workers have shown as they’ve taken...
How COVID-19 is Transforming Life Sciences Real Estate
The explosive growth of the global life sciences sector and the real property needs it entails have captured the attention of commercial real estate investors of all stripes. According to CBRE’s US Real Estate Market Outlook 2020, from 2014-2019, life sciences real...
What Coronavirus Can Teach Architecture Schools About Virtual Learning
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...
Are Microgrids the Answer to Energy Disruptions?
In light of the renewable energy expansion of recent years, microgrids have become increasingly more popular. Although they seem new, these installations have been around for many years—the first one was introduced by Thomas Edison in 1882 at his Pearl Street Station...
What’s Trending in Health-Care Design?
Medical offices and hospitals are, by definition, places where people come first. The same principle has become the rule of thumb for design, even more so than efficiency and sustainability, which architects have traditionally prioritized when planning medical office...
How Multifamily Can be Adapted to Minimize Public Contact
PLEASANTON, CA—Among other things, COVID-19 has sparked a hyper-awareness of the fragility of community health and wellness. Previously taken for granted, the simple ways of navigating daily life are being challenged. For example, in multifamily properties, the common...
5 Valuable Questions Building Engineers will be Asking After COVID-19
There are so many unanswered questions we are sorting through during this pandemic. The big one for me is: what will be the new normal in the post-COVID-19 world and to what extent will the way we interact with the built environment change? Unfortunately, this is a...
One Theory to Fight Homelessness: Readapt Empty Hotel Rooms
To battle the spread of COVID-19, local officials around the country are taking some pretty dramatic steps. For example, Los Angeles County officials plan to lease 15,000 hotel rooms to house the homeless. “This is a proactive approach to move people into rooms to...
Design Steps for Reopening Embattled Hotels
On April 20, Marriott International, the world’s largest hotel chain, rolled out its plan to elevate its cleanliness standards and practices to meet new health and safety guidelines and guest expectations presented by the coronavirus pandemic that, as of early April,...
Report: Q1 Hotel Construction Pipeline Strong Despite Pandemic
Dive Brief: Despite the impact of the coronavirus outbreak, the hotel construction pipeline in the United States increased by 1% in the number of projects and by 3% in the number of rooms from the between the first quarter of 2019 and the first quarter of...
Hospitality Design Trends: Before and After the Pandemic
Not many industries have been impacted by the coronavirus lockdown as much as tourism and hospitality. The U.S. travel industry accounts for a one-third of all the jobs lost in the country, according to the latest data from the U.S. Travel Association and Tourism...
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