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Tensile architecture: Where substance meets style

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Photos courtesy Huntsman By David Peragallo Tensile architecture, also known as tensile structures or fabric architecture, is becoming a popular choice for applications such as stadiums, airport hubs, train and bus stations, exhibition halls, event pavilions, and temporary structures such as festival tents.

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Style meets substance in the design and materiality of tensile architecture

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Photos courtesy Huntsman By David Peragallo Tensile architecture, also known as tensile structures or fabric architecture, is becoming a popular choice for applications such as stadiums, airport hubs, train and bus stations, exhibition halls, event pavilions, and temporary structures such as festival tents.

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Designing and specifying architectural zinc roofing

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With a potential lifespan of 80 years or more, architectural zinc roofing delivers longevity, sustainability, and resiliency to meet or exceed specified requirements on commercial, municipal, residential, educational, health care, and other thoughtfully designed projects. The history of zinc as a construction material reaches antiquity.

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BEHAVIORS drive Facilities Management Outcomes – Repair, Renovation, Maintenance, or New Builds

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It’s the integration of People, Process, Information, and Technology, working together to achieve mutually beneficial outcomes that is the “simple” solution to the endemic environmental and economic waste plaguing the AECOO sector (architecture, engineering, construction, owner, operator/operations).

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Alliance Construction Project Delivery – Driving Public Sector Stewardship of the Built Environment!

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Future, with Owner Leadership, Capacity, Commitment, and Accountability #1 90%+ of ALL projects (repair, renovation, maintenance, and new builds) completed in a quality manner, on time, and on budget with full financial and technical transparency. #2 6 Vendor selection process are flawed and favor economic and environmental waste.

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United Nations Declaration for Sustainable Architecture

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The United Nations has written a set of “principles for sustainable and inclusive urban design and architecture” for architects to sign up to called the San Marino Declaration, which architect Norman Foster is set to launch.

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Retelling an old story: Why women are underrepresented in architecture

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Women account for more than half of the U.S. The reasons could be a combination of too few role models, mentors, and advancement opportunities, based to a statistical analysis of women’s progress in this field by the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA). population.