BD+C

JUNE 12, 2016

By March of next year, Cebu, the oldest and second-largest city in the Philippines, should have its first bus rapid transit system (BTR) completed. The system stretches from the Cebu International Airport to the city’s business district, and will connect four separately governed cities, BRT is expected to serve between 15% and 25% of the area’s 3.5 million population, and alleviate congestion for nearly one million citizens.

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Stephen B Chambers Architects

JUNE 14, 2016

While in architecture school 45 years ago, I studied Gaudi’s life work, La Sagrada Familia. Now I’ve finally seen it for myself. I’ve discussed it with other architects and sought out two Spanish architects while on this trip to Barcelona, who told me how they feel about it. I also asked a guide who is knowledgeable about Spanish history and architecture.

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EntreArchitect

JUNE 14, 2016

As small firm architects, we are responsible for so many different roles and responsibilities. We are pulled in so many different directions and our schedules are full every day, from morning to evening. We need to meet with clients, develop and distribute marketing, respond to important email, manage our social media accounts, send invoices, collect payments and so much more.

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Life of an Architect

JUNE 12, 2016

The curse of being an architect strikes again … every day starts off with a small slice of madness served up to me in my shower. It is important to mention that I did not design or build this shower myself – it came to me this way when I bought my new home. Apparently I am destined to have odd showers in my life (don’t know what I’m talking about?

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BD+C

JUNE 13, 2016

The editors of Building Design+Construction magazine are teaming with nearly 30 leading women AEC professionals to launch the first annual Women in Design+Construction Conference (WiD+C), November 9-11, 2016, at the Ritz-Carlton Laguna Niguel in Dana Point, Calif.

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BD+C

JUNE 14, 2016

The construction industry has promised big things when it comes to the implementation of 3D printing; houses, offices , heck, there have even been a few stories about entire villages being created with the use of 3D printing. However, to this point, 3D-printed buildings and dwellings are still novelties, and seeing 3D printing expand to wider use in the construction sector still seems like a distant goal.

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BD+C

JUNE 17, 2016

Theaster Gates is an award-winning artist whose installations, sculptures, and performance works have been exhibited at the Whitney Biennial, the Milwaukee Art Museum, the Seattle Art Museum, the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, and the Museum of Contemporary Craft, Portland, Ore. He has been Director of Arts & Public Life at the University of Chicago since 2006; he is also a tenured professor in the Department of Visual Arts.

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BD+C

JUNE 17, 2016

The International Spy Museum in Washington D.C. will be moving next year. If you want to the location of the new building, go to a park in Partridge, Kan., where a package awaits in a hollowed-out tree 150-feet from rusted water fountain in a park that…. Just kidding, there’s no dead drop. The museum says that it will relocate to a different spot in D.C., at L’Enfant Plaza between the National Mall and the Southwest Waterfront’s Wharf.

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BD+C

JUNE 13, 2016

What makes Millennials tick? Lots of businesses, AEC firms included, would like to know the answer to that question. That’s because, at 75.4 million strong, the 18–34 generation has just left Baby Boomers in the dust as the largest population group in America, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. . Millennials represent the largest share of the American workforce—more than a third of all workers—and could rise to half the workfore by 2020, according to the Pew Research Center.

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BD+C

JUNE 15, 2016

Jessica Helfand and Michael Bierut, writers, graphic designers, and co-founders of Design Observer, will join the Yale School of Management as faculty in design this summer.

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BD+C

JUNE 13, 2016

Urban designers and planners frequently consult 3D imagery from Google Earth and other online mapping services to get a sense of existing site conditions. If you’ve used Google Earth or Apple Maps recently, you’ll notice that the 3D imagery is increasingly realistic. How are they doing this, and how could this technology augment the planning and design profession in the future?

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BD+C

JUNE 15, 2016

Jerry Yudelson is on a mission. He wants to get architects, engineers, contractors, and property owners talking— really talking—about the future of green building. “There’s been no serious intellectual discussion about whether we’re going in the right direction,” says the licensed engineer and author of 13 books on green building. “We’re just tinkering with the system.”.

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BD+C

JUNE 16, 2016

Two months ago, the town of Summerville, S.C., broke ground on a $19 million, 307,000-sf shell building (expandable to 923,000 sf) at the Charleston Trade Center, a 750-acre shipping complex with access to the Port of Charleston.

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BD+C

JUNE 13, 2016

Sherwin-Williams has released four new color palettes. A team of design and color experts developed colormix 2017: The Sherwin-Williams Color Forecast based on extensive research and insights into global trends. The four palettes — Noir, Holistic, Intrepid and Unbounded — each consist of 10 colors. Noir : Driven by baroque and romanticism trends, the Noir palette is rich with colors that evoke vine-ripe fruits, Nordic blues, moody neutrals, and golden yellow.

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BD+C

JUNE 13, 2016

The Electric Training Institute in Los Angeles trains about 1,500 electrical apprentices, journeymen, and contractors annually. It is also a demonstration center and living lab for advanced and energy clean energy technologies. It seems appropriate, then, that this 144,000-sf building is now the country’s largest Net Zero Plus commercial building retrofit.

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BD+C

JUNE 15, 2016

The restroom fixture manufacturer Bradley released its 2016 Healthy Hand Washing Survey, which gives some insight into bathroom problems, usage, and possible improvements. . The results come from a national online survey of 1,062 American adults split nearly evenly among men and women. They were asked about their hand washing habits in public restrooms and concerns about germs and sanitation.

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BD+C

JUNE 16, 2016

Employees’ top priority in an office environment is to be able to focus without interruptions , according to research by Oxford Economics. A global survey of more than 1,200 senior executives and non-management employees found that employees want office designs to foster the ability to concentrate, more than any other factor. Amenities like free food, for instance, are far less important, the research shows.

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BD+C

JUNE 14, 2016

After reviewing a pool of nine applicants, the City of West Hollywood named four finalists in a competition to design a new advertising display for the Sunset Strip.

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BD+C

JUNE 13, 2016

“North American cities need something more organic, more natural, more human,” said Ma Yansong, a Yale-educated architect working for Beijing-­based MAD Architects. He entered and won a design competition set to bring greater character to Toronto’s Mississauga suburb. Yansong achieved his aspirations with his 56-­story glass, concrete, and steel tower.

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BD+C

JUNE 17, 2016

On May 7, 1,200 volunteers planted 3,150 six-foot sugar maples around the new learning laboratory of the Detroit Enterprise Academy, a K-8 public charter school. The tree-planting campaign was the third in as many years for Hantz Woodlands, the brainchild of John Hantz, founder of Hantz Group, a financial services conglomerate.

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BD+C

JUNE 16, 2016

Many people will get to use Dero’s new Bike Depot. The modular storage shelter can store up to 14 bikes depending on configuration. Designed for use in places like transit stations, university campuses, and residential buildings, the Bike Depot features a steel frame, heavy-duty wire mesh, and a corrugated metal roof. Its double doors come with a latch that locks by key.

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Speaker: Pedro Clarke – Principal Architect at A+ Architecture, In Loco Program Director

Sustainability begins with a conversation, and acquiring customer buy-in is entirely dependent on how the conversation is framed. Clients may not see sustainability as a priority out of fear of operational costs and quality. While these are legitimate concerns, it is our responsibility as architects to listen and foster a collaborative culture that answers client issues while also reducing our carbon footprint.

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BD+C

JUNE 17, 2016

Driverless cars could have an impact on the design of commercial and retail projects a lot sooner than many believe , according to a principal with a California design firm. Autonomous vehicles are expected to enter the market within the next 10 years, and this has implications for parking standards in particular. Onsite parking could be reduced, with parking for driverless cars moved to less valuable properties nearby.

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BD+C

JUNE 15, 2016

Why does nature always need to be at odds with the built environment? Shouldn’t we have a way by now to blend the two into one homogenous space so there is not much of a discernible difference between what is the city and what is nature?

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BD+C

JUNE 16, 2016

Construction input prices expanded by 0.7% in May and have now expanded for three consecutive months according to an analysis of the Bureau of Labor Statistics Producer Price Index released by Associated Builders and Contractors (ABC). The rise follows eight consecutive months during which construction input prices fell; prices remain 3.4% below their year-ago level. .

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BD+C

JUNE 15, 2016

The London-based architecture firm WilkinsonEyre got the nod from developers Ivanhoé Cambridge and Hines to design Bay Park Centre , a $2-billion, 3 million sf complex in downtown Toronto.

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