New Book Examines Work of MacKay-Lyons Sweetapple Architects
Coming April 18, “The Work of MacKay-Lyons Sweetapple Architects” captures the practical yet beautiful work of one of the leading architectural firms in the world The “modern vernacular” work of MacKay-Lyons Sweetapple Architects—winners of more than 100 awards, including the 2015 Gold Medal from the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada—is characterized by an ethically driven desire to use minimal materials to maximum effect, and by its deep engagement with the landscape and climate o...
Zaha Hadid Architects Releases Images of Tower with the World's Tallest Atrium
Zaha Hadid Architects has released new images of Leeza SOHO, their mixed-use design in Beijing's Lize Financial Business District. The project is notable for its 190-meter tall atrium, which rises the full height of the building, uniting two twisting sections which contain 172,800 square meters of office and residential space. At the base of the tower, a new transit hub straddles a subway tunnel that is currently under construction. Save this picture! © MIRThe form of the desig...
Wood Construction Battles Climate Change through Carbon Storage
The building sector contributes up to 30% of global annual greenhouse gas emissions, thus it plays a vital role in mitigating climate change. Building with wood is a part of the solution, as wood is the only construction material that stores carbon. Wood products, like Kerto® LVL, have a surprisingly small carbon footprint during their lifecycle and can be used in practically all buildings to store carbon. One of the most important ways to mitigate climate change is to find new ways of captu...
Skanska Constructs New Building for Offices and Retail in Stockholm, Sweden, for SEK 1.2 billion
Skanska has signed a contract with AMF Fastigheter to construct a new building for commercial and office premises in central Stockholm, Sweden. The contract is worth about SEK 1.2 billion, which will be included in order bookings for Skanska Sweden for the first quarter of 2017. The project includes demolition of the existing building, ground improvement and new construction of twelve floors totaling 44,000 square meters. The new building will meet high sustainability standards and aiming...
Nashville International Airport Begins Billion-Dollar Renovation with Atkins-Designed Parking Garage
Atkins joined airport staff, elected officials and other stakeholders at Nashville International Airport (BNA) to break ground recently on a terminal area parking garage. Designed by Atkins, the garage is the first project initiated under the Metropolitan Nashville Airport Authority’s (MNAA) comprehensive renovation and expansion plan, BNA Vision. "Breaking ground heralds the first phase of construction of the BNA Vision, our dynamic plan to meet the needs of our rapidly gr...
Finnish Broadcasting Company: Why Helsinki Doesn’t Extend Upwards?
Extensions to existing buildings are beginning to rise above the urban and industrial areas of Helsinki’s currently rather horizontal skyline. As The Finnish Broadcasting Company YLE reports, the number of extensions upward is still quite small – yet there is growing interest in the air. The demand for housing in urban areas continues to grow globally. Today more than half of the world’s population is living in the cities, according to the UN’s The World’s Cities in 2016 report. With limit...
New Trimble Technology Lab Gift to UMass Amherst Expands Training and Research for Building Design and Fabrication
SUNNYVALE, Calif. and AMHERST, Mass. — A significant in-kind gift from Trimble (NASDAQ: TRMB) will expand the University of Massachusetts Amherst's leadership in training and research in 3D building design, digital fabrication and the sustainable built environment. Partnering with Trimble allows UMass Amherst to more fully integrate across its curricula the technological tools that are rapidly transforming how building and living environments are designed and constructed. The gift will establ...
New Revision of AISC Structural Steel Buildings Specification Available for Free Downloading
(Chicago, IL) – The 2016 version of the AISC standard, Specification for Structural Steel Buildings (ANSI/AISC 360-16), is now available for free downloading at www.aisc.org/2016spec. The 2016 Specification supersedes the 2010 version (ANSI/AISC 360-10). It has been approved by the AISC Committee on Specifications and is ANSI-accredited and forms the basis for the 15th Edition Steel Construction Manual, which is scheduled to be published in the third quarter of 2017. “The 2016 AISC Specifi...
Delos and HKS Announce Partnership to Explore the Effects of the Built Environment on Health and Wellness
New York, New York – Delos™, a wellness real estate and technology firm, announced a partnership with HKS, an international design firm, to study and measure the impact of interventions in the built environment on human health and well-being. The new HKS and Delos partnership will focus on applied research and will build on the strengths of each company to target peer-reviewed open sourced publications, and advance Delos’ mission to transform buildings into healthier spaces. As part of t...
Procurement Research Project Aims to Reduce Climate Impact from Infrastructure Projects
Infrastructure projects account for a large portion of the world’s CO2 emissions. One way to reduce the carbon impact is to implement sustainability requirements in the procurement process. The research project Implementation of Procurement Requirements for Sustainable Collaboration in Infrastructure (Impres) aims to study how this can be done most effectively. “It is easy to formulate and state high requirements in the procurement phase, but there is a problem that they are not always fulfil...
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