Top

Tag: designing


Construction Processes, Design

Designing for Deconstruction with Sustainable Interiors

November 15, 2023

Via: gb&d magazine

Interiors are ever-changing. Buildings are responsible for 40% of global energy consumption through their lifetimes—and much of that is coming from inside. Many interiors have a relatively short life—especially in areas like the hospitality industry, where an interior might be […]


Construction Processes, Design

Designing Innovative Small Kitchens With Different Compositions and Materials

July 21, 2023

Via: ArchDaily

Nowadays, homes are built in increasingly smaller spaces in densely populated cities. The kitchens, which today serve not only to prepare meals but also as meeting spaces where we receive guests, are the places that have undergone the most transformations […]


Construction Processes, Design

Designing for Water Scarcity: How Architects are Adapting to Arid Environments

June 19, 2023

Via: ArchDaily

An arid environment refers to specific regions characterized by a severe lack of available water and extremely dry weather conditions. More specifically, arid regions by definition, receive less than 25 centimeters of rain per year. In the immense vastness of […]


Construction Processes, Design

Why Designing with Metal Panels Makes for More Dynamic Buildings

June 15, 2023

Via: gb&d magazine

Metal facades that change color with the sun, perforated metal, uniquely shaped panels—metal can seemingly do anything, and that’s part of why designers love it. “It’s definitely one of the materials I’ll use in any project,” says Devin Norton, senior […]


Construction Processes, Design

Popular Home Architecture Styles in 2023

February 20, 2023

Via: gb&d magazine

Modern, farmhouse, industrial, Mediterranean—there’s a seemingly endless list of residential architecture styles to choose from when buying, designing, or building a home. While trends like tiny homes come and go, some of the top 2023 home trends are focused on […]


Construction Processes, Design

Designing Sustainable K-12 Buildings Using Aluminum

October 20, 2021

Via: gb&d magazine

Aluminum and aluminum alloys have long been used as building construction materials. Strongly associated with the Art Deco movement due to the sleek appearance and malleability—consider the striking details of New York’s Empire State and Chrysler buildings—aluminum was found to […]


Sustainability

Designing & Building a Post-COVID-19 Workplace

August 5, 2020

Via: ConstructConnect

Social distancing may feel surreal in the beginning—coworkers avoiding physical contact, people separated by partitions, everyone wearing masks. It might even seem a little lonely with a lot of our coworkers still forced to work at home as organizations ramp […]


Construction Processes, Design

Designing environments for memory care residents

November 7, 2018

Via: BDCNetwork

A recent study finds that by 2050 the number of individuals in the United States age 65 years and older with Alzheimer’s disease will nearly triple, from 5 million to 13.8 million. Because of this, there has been an increasing […]


Construction Site Safety, Construction Techniques, Regulations

How to create construction proposals faster and close more deals

May 21, 2018

Via: Construction Dive

You and your sales team may have a complicated relationship with proposals. On the one hand, proposals bring money into your firm. Without proposals, you don’t have a business. Winning proposals is awesome. However, creating proposals can be painful. If […]


Sustainability

A new app brings precision to designing a building for higher performance

April 6, 2017

Via: BDCNetwork

Buildings create nearly half of the greenhouse gas emissions in the United States. And AEC firms are challenged to accurately calculate how their designs will impact the performance of a building before construction or renovation begins. On March 28, a […]