Exploring the cutting edge of neuroscience facility design
BWBR Communications Specialist Amanda Fisher shares the unique considerations and challenges of designing neuroscience facilities.
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Miller Hull
How to promote wellness through interior design
We spend most of our lives inside, and the spaces we inhabit have the potential to greatly impact our health depending on the kinds of design decisions made.
sponsored Ken Cook, Allegion
Visual Indication Trims Solve Security Challenges in Retrofits
Backwards compatible visual indication trims can help retrofits more readily achieve recommendations for safer school design.
LPA
Windows in K-12 classrooms provide opportunities, not distractions
On a knee-jerk level, a window seems like a built-in distraction, guaranteed to promote wandering minds in any classroom or workspace. Yet, a steady stream of studies has found the opposite to be true.
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sponsored | Marcus Haynes, Hexagon | Jun 27, 2024
Leverage Data to Contextualize Competitive Construction
Procure, fabricate, construct and commission construction projects efficiently.
Gensler | Jun 26, 2024
5 ways ESG can influence design and create opportunities
Gensler sustainability leaders Stacey Olson, Anthony Brower, and Audrey Handelman share five ways they're rethinking designing for ESG, using a science-based approach that can impact the ESG value chain.
Perkins Eastman | Jun 24, 2024
Not your grandparents’ senior living community: Redefining aging in place
Perkins Eastman’s Senior Living and Residential teams are putting a new face on home for seniors who don’t want to move away in retirement.
BWBR | Jun 20, 2024
How student housing developments are evolving to meet new expectations
The days of uninspired dorm rooms with little more than a bed and a communal bathroom down the hall are long gone. Students increasingly seek inclusive design, communities to enhance learning and living, and a focus on wellness that encompasses everything from meditation spaces to mental health resources.
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sponsored | | Jun 20, 2024
2024 Timber-Strong Design Build Competition: Small Buildings, Big Educational Opportunities
Student-led teams have 90 minutes to erect attractive, durable, engineered wood structures.
Stantec | Jun 18, 2024
Could ‘smart’ building facades heat and cool buildings?
A promising research project looks at the possibilities for thermoelectric systems to thermally condition buildings, writes Mahsa Farid Mohajer, Sustainable Building Analyst with Stantec.
IMEG Corp. | Jun 18, 2024
A healthcare simulation technology consultant can save time, money, and headaches
As the demand for skilled healthcare professionals continues to rise, healthcare simulation is playing an increasingly vital role in the skill development, compliance, and continuing education of the clinical workforce.
sponsored | Devin Bowman, TGP | Jun 17, 2024
Fire-rated Glazing Supports Safer School Design
Fire-rated glazing supports safer school design and supports building plans that meet model building code requirements.
Nadel Architecture + Planning | Jun 14, 2024
AEC inspections are the key to financially viable office to residential adaptive reuse projects
About a year ago our industry was abuzz with an idea that seemed like a one-shot miracle cure for both the shockingly high rate of office vacancies and the worsening housing shortage. The seemingly simple idea of converting empty office buildings to multifamily residential seemed like an easy and elegant solution. However, in the intervening months we’ve seen only a handful of these conversions, despite near universal enthusiasm for the concept.
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NBBJ | Jun 13, 2024
4 ways to transform old buildings into modern assets
As cities grow, their office inventories remain largely stagnant. Yet despite changes to the market—including the impact of hybrid work—opportunities still exist. Enter: “Midlife Metamorphosis.”
Page | Jun 10, 2024
5 hidden benefits of mass timber design
Mass timber is a materials and design approach that holds immense potential to transform the future of the commercial building industry, as well as our environment.
Stantec | Jun 8, 2024
8 ways to cool a factory
Whichever way you look at it—from a workplace wellness point of view or from a competing for talent angle—there are good reasons to explore options for climate control in the factory workplace.
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sponsored | Ron Shaffer, Salto | Jun 6, 2024
Campus 2.0: The Next Generation of Higher Education Campus & Facility Management
Learn about the transformation happening on campuses across the nation. Digital IDs and smart access control solutions are changing how students, faculty and staff work, live and play. Learn how these technologies enhance campus security, operational efficiency, and the overall student experience.
HOK | Jun 6, 2024
HOK presents neurodiversity research and design guidelines at SXSW 2024
Workplace experts share insights on designing inclusive spaces that cater to diverse sensory processing needs.
