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WakeMed North Family Health & Women’s Hospital Expansion Project Wins Best in BIM Award

November 11, 2016 - in Buildings

Associated Builders and Contractors of the Carolinas award recognizes use of BIM to convert healthplex into licensed acute care hospital. The Associated Builders and Contractors (ABC) of the Carolinas recognized the WakeMed North Family Health & Women's…

Young Architects Worldwide Create Solutions for Urbanization in the “City Above the City” Competition

November 2, 2016 - in Buildings

Metsä Wood’s competition has inspired architects worldwide to design wooden extensions to city centres. Entries from 40 countries proposed wooden solutions…

Dewberry Receives Jurors’ Special Citation Award

October 27, 2016 - in Awards, Buildings

Dewberry was awarded a Jurors' Special Citation Award for the 2016 Metals in Construction design challenge. Designers were invited to submit their vision…

Adolfson & Peterson Construction Breaks Ground on the New UNC Campus Commons

October 27, 2016 - in Buildings

Greeley, Colo. -  Adolfson & Peterson Construction (AP), in partnership with design teams Semple Brown Design and Handprint Architecture, celebrated the groundbreaking of the new and innovative University of Northern Colorado (UNC) Campus Commons project.…

First University of Central Asia Campus Opens in Mountain Community of Naryn, Kyrgyz Republic

October 21, 2016 - in Buildings

The first phase of a major international project to deliver state-of-the-art university campuses in Central Asian mountain communities was celebrated today with the inauguration of the University of Central Asia (UCA) Campus in Naryn, Kyrgyz Republic. The…

China Is Leading the New Wave of Towers Rising to 500m and Beyond

October 21, 2016 - in Buildings, News, Projects

China is leading the new wave of mega-tall towers, but locating services such as lifts and cooling towers within these slender giants has required some serious lateral (and vertical) thinking. The Home of Super-Tall If America was the birthplace of the skyscraper,…

Ashland Center Banks on Sustainability

October 17, 2016 - in Buildings

Ashland Center, an office building with over 20,000sf in the prestigious Third Street Historic District of Geneva, IL, is proud to be recognized as the newest IREM® Certified Sustainable Property. The building, first a grocery store in 1960 and then a community…

Vertical House in Dallas Wins National Steel Building Design Award

October 14, 2016 - in Awards, Buildings

Chicago, IL – A five-story residence in Dallas has earned national recognition in the 2016 Innovative Design in Engineering and Architecture with Structural Steel awards program (IDEAS2). In honor of this achievement, members of the project team will be…

FAA Dedicates New Traffic Control Tower at San Francisco International Airport

October 13, 2016 - in Buildings

SAN FRANCISCO – FAA Administrator Michael Huerta joined local officials today in dedicating the new, environmentally friendly airport traffic control tower at San Francisco International Airport (SFO). Rising up in a graceful flare, the new tower is 221…

Strong 2016 Housing Starts Increase Demand for Superior Walls Precast Foundations

October 12, 2016 - in Buildings, Structural components

New Holland, PA - A record-setting year of double-digit growth at Superior Walls serves as an indicator that the robust housing market will continue to expand in 2017. Led by unprecedented demand for precast concrete foundation systems in markets throughout…