Building Optimization Building Resilience Energy Efficiency 
Civil + Structural Engineer
DECEMBER 18, 2024
By: Ricardo Brites , Director of Engineering & VDC at Mercer Mass Timber Imagine your projects being more precise, efficient, and sustainable? Design for Manufacturing and Assembly (DfMA) is leading the way in modern building design, reshaping how we build, especially when it comes to mass timber.
Civil + Structural Engineer
FEBRUARY 14, 2024
With increasing urgency, building owners, architects and contractors are turning to metal buildings to deliver resilient, robust and safe buildings to better mitigate risk. “In Metal buildings are highly fire resistant and have been proven to stand up against extreme weather events. According to Dr. W.
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The Pro Builder
FEBRUARY 8, 2024
Maarten involved three connecting, four-story buildings to add 98 new hotel rooms. The buildings also had to be designed for seismic and hurricane-wind loads to withstand potential natural disasters of the waterfront location. With the resort remaining open during construction, speed and simplicity were key to the project’s success.
The Pro Builder
FEBRUARY 8, 2024
Maarten involved three connecting, four-story buildings to add 98 new hotel rooms. The buildings also had to be designed for seismic and hurricane-wind loads to withstand potential natural disasters of the waterfront location. With the resort remaining open during construction, speed and simplicity were key to the project’s success.
The Pro Builder
MAY 15, 2023
Smart Neighborhood Project Combines Net Zero with Natural Gas qpurcell Mon, 05/15/2023 - 09:49 Building net zero, carbon neutral homes means going all-electric and getting rid of natural gas entirely—right? We can leverage a reliable, affordable system that’s already in place,” she says.
The Pro Builder
OCTOBER 4, 2023
Prefab, Modular Homebuilder Touts Energy and Cost Benefits qpurcell Wed, 10/04/2023 - 09:00 Dvele —a California-based manufacturer of prefab, modular homes—got started by bringing two building concepts together: high performance and factory construction. In 2018, Brandon Weiss, a third-generation U.S. with rooftop solar.
Construction Specifier
NOVEMBER 21, 2023
A high-performance building envelope minimizes thermal bridging, enhancing interior thermal comfort with substantial R values at the roof and walls. The building’s energy use intensity (EUI) is reduced to 23, a 71 percent decrease from the baseline, thanks to efficient building systems and envelope design.
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