Construction is the largest global industry that accounts for 13% of global GDP. It encompasses infrastructure, industrial structures, and real estate and today many companies are adjusting their business models to embrace the next normal in construction. It is a fact...
BIM and Design-Build Pair Well, but New Habits are Needed
Building information modeling is a useful tool in the arsenal of a design-build team. It fills the space where traditional silos between designers and contractors have been broken down, facilitating collaboration and reflecting real-time changes to the plans within a...
Special Report: Reinventing Construction Project Schedules
When Ken McBroom lays out a schedule with his on-site tradespeople, he wants any changes or delays in the plan to hurt as much as possible. Using Post-it notes, Sharpie pens, and a whiteboard, he has each trade assigned to a project write down, in their own hand,...
Chain of Command
Jacobs Engineering Group is in the vanguard of AEC firms that are committed to exploring the potential of blockchain technology for the construction industry. The blockchain committee within Jacobs’ practice meets monthly and has discussed use cases ranging from the...
Alexa, Tell Me Why My Multifamily Property Needs a Community Network
Best-practice rules of the multifamily business are evolving as connected devices continually change the way people live, work and play. Cord cutting, Amazon shipments, home-office careers and smart thermostats are just the beginning. Communities will soon rely on...
Ensuring Connectivity in Renovating Older Buildings
High speed internet connectivity with any business is crucial. Repositioning older properties, the value-add propositions cost less than new construction. But real estate owners and developers should be mindful of the fiber optics requirements and some of their...
Codes Organizations to Develop New Guidelines on Shipping Containers as Building Components
The International Code Council and the Modular Building Institute struck a deal to collaborate on new guidelines for using shipping containers as buildings or as building components. The two organizations will work to establish an industry-wide standard as none...
US Colleges Adopt PlanGrid for Campus Construction
Universities and colleges in the U.S. are facing a growing backlog of construction projects and repairs. In addition to the $30 billion of deferred maintenance needs that American institutions of higher learning had as of 2016, a more recent report from the research...
Study: Autonomous Robots Working Together are Industry’s Next Big Thing
Construction of large structures by smaller, autonomous robots coordinating with each other is “rapidly gaining momentum” in the field of robotics research, finds a new study from Science Robotics, and can address a “critical societal need for safe, inexpensive,...
Data Center Demand Reaches Record Levels in the West
Demand for data center demand is rapidly rising around the globe, and Western US cities are among the top markets. A new report from JLL calls data center demand “insatiable” and lists Phoenix, Las Vegas and Los Angeles as the top markets for data center absorption in...
San Diego, Third Largest Life Science Market in US
San Diego is the third largest life science market in the country. From 2006 to 2016, San Diego’s life science employment has increased to 13.5%, nearly double than the national average of 6.9%, according to research from CBRE. The market is poised for more growth...
Fast-Growing Lab Properties Attracting New Wave of Cash
The prospect of big rent increases is drawing more large property investors to the risky but fast-growing niche of biotechnology and other life-science buildings. These laboratory businesses have taken off in recent years. New drugs, treatments and devices used to be...
What is the Role of the Architect in Healthcare Data Security?
According to data compiled by the Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights, more than 2,180 healthcare data security breachesoccurred between 2009 and 2017. Those breaches affected 54% of the U.S. population. As a result of the severity of this...
What is Your Firm’s Innovation ‘Hit Rate’?
For the better part of a decade, we’ve watched AEC firms and real estate owners and developers pluck business practices, technology, and talent from the tech and manufacturing industries—digital workflows, automation, innovation competitions, hackathons, maker...
U.S. Data Centers Enjoy Record Setting Leasing Year in 2018
According to CBRE's latest U.S. Data Center Trends Report, demand from large cloud users drove U.S. data center leasing to record levels in 2018, providing momentum for new construction in the sector this year. The seven primary U.S. data center markets saw 303...
Autodesk Opens Up Machine-Learning Advisory Tool to BIM 360 User Base
While it has made great strides in getting contractors and other members of project teams to load information into its BIM 360 program, Autodesk has acknowledged that its sometimes hard to get actionable information out of these systems. Dense documentation can...
California’s Carbon Reduction Goals to be Aided by Programs to Convert Heating, Hot Water Systems
About 90% of California’s furnaces and water heaters currently run on natural gas or propane, and these are significant sources of carbon emissions. Most of these systems will have to be converted to high-efficiency heat pumps and solar thermal heating for the state...
Demand Drivers For Life Sciences CRE
The investment and employment levels in the life sciences sector of commercial real estate has significantly risen according to Cushman & Wakefield’s new report, Life Science: Great Promise & Rapid Growth. With the rapid influx of venture capital as well as...
Innovative Workspaces: Seven Office Trends for 2019
Tenants in today’s vibrant office market have more choices than ever. Location, location, location is being replaced by accessibility, connectivity and amenities. Rapidly evolving technologies are being integrated into office space as companies work to attract talent...
Researchers Develop Software that Can Calculate Potential Solar Energy Yield at any Location
Researchers at the Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands have developed new methods that permit fast and accurate calculations of the solar energy potential of building surfaces in urban areas. Researchers say their software toolbox can accurately...
ISO Publishes First Global BIM Standards
The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) recently published the first global Building Information Modeling (BIM) standards. The new standards are: “Part 1: Concepts and principles,” and “Part 2: Delivery phase of the assets” of ISO 19650 —...
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