When Furman University in Greenville, S.C., decided to build Herman N. Hipp Hall, a new academic facility, the university decided up front to work toward achieving Gold LEED rating, which would make it the first building in the state to receive this certification. Now, seven years later, Hipp Hall continues to help the university save [...]

The American Institute of Architecture Students (AIAS) and Kawneer Company Inc. recently announced the winners of the fourth annual national student design competition. The competition, sponsored by Kawneer and administered by AIAS, challenged students to learn about building materials, specifically architectural aluminum building products and systems, in the design of a municipal courthouse. Ball State [...]

McCarthy Building Companies Inc. recently broke ground on the renovation and expansion of Midland Memorial Hospital in Midland, Texas. The scope of this $100-million project will include a new 240,000-square-foot, nine-story tower, as well as the renovation of an existing 100,000-square-foot hospital, upgrades to the central plant and a new five-level parking garage.
The Midland Memorial [...]

Building Information Modeling (BIM) has been the topic of many presentations, articles and discussions over the past few years. While the concept saw much interest and excitement early on, some of that soon waned as critics and skeptics saw the technology as, perhaps, ahead of its time. However, for Scott Simpson, FAIA, LEED AP, senior [...]

Sustainability and energy efficiency have become monikers for many of today’s retrofit and new construction building projects, and the Empire State Building is no exception. More than 6,500 windows in the iconic building are being upgraded by Serious Materials as part of an energy-efficiency retrofit project, which was announced last April.
Johnson Controls, a provider of [...]

The jury of the Emporis Skyscraper Award named Aqua, an 81-story residential and hotel tower in Chicago, the winner of its 2009 Skyscraper of the Year. The award, now celebrating its tenth year, is given annually to a building at least 100 meters tall and completed within the award year. The second place winner is [...]

Ware Malcomb was hired by Far West Industries to design the Dove Street Office building, located at 1401 Dove Street, Newport Beach, Calif.
Ware Malcomb provided architectural design services for this two-story, 21,690 square feet multi- tenant, Class “A” office building. The property was built on an existing site that was under developed and the new [...]

A pool pavilion designed to resemble a group of traditional farm buildings in Litchfield County, Conn., has earned the architecture firm James Dixon Architect PC a Design Excellence Award from the American Institute of Architects. The prize is one of only three such awards given by the Eastern New York Chapter of the AIA in [...]

Beginning its third year of negative conditions, the Architecture Billings Index (ABI) had a drop of almost three points in January. The American Institute of Architects (AIA) reported the January ABI rating was 42.5, down sharply from a revised reading of 45.4 in December. According to the AIA, this score indicates a continued decline in [...]

The Metal Initiative has redesigned the Case Study Gallery on its website (www.themetalinitiative.com) to make navigating through the section quick and easy. The new case study section was created to allow architects, designers, building owners, designers and others involved in the construction building process to easily search through a wide array of metal construction building [...]