Tag: commercial building

April 27, 2018

On May 1, 2018, the new Wisconsin Commercial Building Code will take effect, with updated building codes on energy standards and lighting controls. Wisconsin Commercial Building Codes represent a significant change in energy standards for the state and will affect […]

September 18, 2017

Northern California is known as a wine lover’s paradise. Vineyards stretch as far as the eye can see and history runs deep through every bottle. Established in 1933 by brothers Ernest and Julio Gallo, the E & J Gallo Winery […]

May 25, 2017

The Better Buildings Initiative Progress Report comes as more individuals and organizations within the public and private sectors are searching for ways to improve energy efficiency. Earlier this month, U.S. mayors launched the new Mayors for 100% Clean Energy initiative […]

May 19, 2017

The most recent Commercial Buildings Energy Consumption Survey (CBECS) collected new information about lighting control technologies and strategies in the United States in 2012. Compared with other investments in energy efficiency—such as upgrading heating, ventilation, and air-conditioning systems or replacing […]

May 19, 2017

Until recently, the words “modular construction” likely evoked images of boxy, utilitarian overflow classrooms, and “prefabricated” connoted an inevitable sacrifice in style. However, today’s offsite construction industry is an entirely different proposition. In the last few years, general contractors and […]

May 16, 2017

The American Institute of Architects’ standardized contract series is widely used across the construction industry, in addition to options from competitors like ConsensusDocs and the Design Build Institute of America. When the AIA issues revisions to its contract documents every 10 […]

May 10, 2017

The existing law, passed in 2005, was meant to protect homeowners from builders who provide a substandard product, but builders argue that it has increased their costs to the point where they can’t make money on condominium projects. The current […]

May 8, 2017

Project teams looking for building materials and systems with a lower environmental impact are increasingly eyeing wood — specifically cross-laminated timber (CLT), a type of mass timber that, research has shown, rivals concrete and steel in performance but has a smaller […]

May 5, 2017

Proponents of offsite construction say the method is gaining popularity not because it typically reduces schedule time — as it did for Marriott at its California property — but because it puts the construction process in a controlled environment, where experienced teams […]

May 3, 2017

The AECOM Tishman brand is the result of major acquisitions by AECOM. The construction giant purchased Tishman in 2010 and Hunt — the general contractor behind projects such as the Atlanta Falcons’ $1.5 billion Mercedes Benz Stadium — in 2014. AECOM announced […]