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University building design highlights warmth, functionality, and bioretention

Construction Specifier

The University of Massachusetts Amherst’s School of Public Health & Health Services (SPHHS) building is being constructed. Image courtesy Leers Weinzapfel Associates The University of Massachusetts Amherst’s School of Public Health & Health Services (SPHHS) building is currently under construction.

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Ware Malcomb Announces Construction is Complete on Chino Valley Unified School District Administration HQ

Civil + Structural Engineer

– Ware Malcomb , an award-winning international design firm, today announced that construction is complete on a new two-story administration building for the Chino Valley Unified School District. General contracting services for the project were provided by Xebec Building Company. in Chino, CA. “The

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Roofing Manufacturer Partners With Architecture Students for Annual Design-Build Project

The Pro Builder

Roofing Manufacturer Partners With Architecture Students for Annual Design-Build Project ldeakins Fri, 08/11/2023 - 11:32 Roofing manufacturer S-5! recently teamed up with the University of Kansas School of Architecture & Design for its student-led annual design-build project S-5!, is quick and easy to install.” “We

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New BJC Health Tower Breaks Ground in St. Louis

Civil + Structural Engineer

Louis area, Barnes-Jewish Health Systems (BJC) undertook a long-term, campus wide renewal project. Because of the ever-evolving expectations for new healthcare facilities to provide visitors and patients with optimal comfort, the plans for the new tower included unique yet challenging design elements.

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Houston’s office building to feature unique ‘side-core design’

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1550 on the Green, facing Houston’s iconic Discovery Green Park, is being built in a curved shape, described as a “side-core design”, to allow unobstructed daylight to enter the oversized windows. Part of the three-block master plan, all owned by Skanska USA, this building is designed by the architect, Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG).

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Restoring and maintaining archaic concrete floor systems

Construction Specifier

For a building owner, contractor, or design professional, encountering an unfamiliar material can be a terrifying prospect, especially if the material makes up something as fundamental as the floor slab. A floor slab in modern construction often means reinforced concrete—ubiquitous and reliable. Christopher Clements, AIA.

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Vibration isolation for Norfolk House development 

Civil + Structural Engineer

Now, it has been converted into a new eight-story commercial office building. However, given the building’s proximity to the London Underground and HS2, vibration control was required for the newly excavated basement level. Originally built in the 1930s, Norfolk House is a Neo-Georgian red brick building, located in St James’s Square.