Construction Specifier

JANUARY 19, 2024

By Charles Carrender In architectural design, the most successful projects are those that prioritize and optimize the occupant experience. How people engage and interact with a space is a direct result of how well the space is designed to perform in relation to its intended use. Photos courtesy AVL Systems Inc.

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BD+C

APRIL 8, 2024

3 sustainable design decisions to make early 0 qpurcell Mon, 04/08/2024 - 09:26 Sustainability In her experience as an architect, Megan Valentine AIA, LEED AP, NCARB, WELL AP, Fitwel, Director of Sustainability, KTGY details three early sustainable design decisions: site selection, massing and orientation, and proper window-to-wall ratios.

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BD+C

APRIL 22, 2024

Achieving Safer School Design with Secure Entry Vestibules 1 kcichowicz Mon, 04/22/2024 - 10:47 Designers can plan secure entry vestibules with security-rated glazing to enhance the effectiveness of their safer school designs. What are secure entry vestibules and how do they support safer school design?

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BD+C

APRIL 27, 2023

Blind Ambition: Insights from a blind architect on universal design 0 qpurcell Thu, 04/27/2023 - 14:53 Architects Blind architect Chris Downey shares his message to designers that universal design goes much further than simply meeting a code to make everything accessible. Universal Design Insights Downey is blind.

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BD+C

MARCH 28, 2024

Workplace campus design philosophy: People are the new amenity 0 qpurcell Thu, 03/28/2024 - 10:33 Office Buildings Nick Arambarri, AIA, LEED AP BD+C, NCARB, Director of Commercial, LPA, underscores the value of providing rich, human-focused environments for the return-to-office workforce. People deserve better places to go to.

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Construction Today

APRIL 18, 2024

In the heart of Manhattan’s NoMad neighborhood, a new architectural marvel is making its mark on the iconic New York City skyline.

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Pro Builder

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

How One New York Program Is Giving New Life to Architectural Mock-Ups. New York-based Testbeds is reusing visual and performance construction mock-ups in community gardens to divert them from landfills. It is used to test a design before embarking on a project, but afterward, it often ends up in a garbage heap. Architecture.

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Construction Specifier

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

Acoustic design is a primary consideration, whether the church space is a worship center, a sanctuary, a chapel, a Sunday school classroom, a fellowship hall, or a family life center. They can now create 3D models that visually represent a specific church’s acoustical characteristics using modern software programs.

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BD+C

MARCH 17, 2024

5 criteria to optimize medical office design 0 rcassidy Sun, 03/17/2024 - 09:30 Healthcare Facilities Healthcare designers need to consider privacy, separate areas for practitioners, natural light, outdoor spaces, and thoughtful selection of materials for medical office buildings. Photo: Emily Hagopian 3.

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Construction Specifier

NOVEMBER 24, 2022

Renovating and expanding an art museum designed by a well-known Italian architect comes with its share of design challenges. For the Denver Art Museum, an institution of visual art, it was a necessary revitalization effort to better serve the increase in foot traffic, which has now grown to more than 800,000 visitors annually.

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Pro Builder

APRIL 30, 2021

Home Design Details That Add Distinction. Drawn from winners of the 2020 Best in American Living Awards, these design details can inspire home builders with fresh new ways to differentiate their homes in a competitive market. Fri, 04/30/2021 - 14:30. Stacey Freed. but also to validate what they already like.

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Pro Builder

OCTOBER 3, 2022

Custom Home: A Modern Design of Light and Magic. This light-filled California custom home reached back into the past to create a stunning present and a memorable future with a design that offers diverse outdoor living options and an invitingly warm, modern aesthetic. Interior design: Del Gavio Group , Woodside, Calif.

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Construction Business Owner

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

Twenty-five years ago, I was first turned on to the idea of virtual reality (VR) as the holy grail of design visualization in architecture while thumbing through inspirational musings and essays published in Cadence’s “Special Summer Reading Issue.”

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BD+C

JUNE 12, 2023

discusses strategies for using visualization and reality capture. While photos and drawings can offer a small glimpse of an overall site, it can be challenging to visualize and understand how all elements relate to one another. Our presentation, “ Enhanced Visualization & Reality Capture from a Bird’s Eye View ” will be at 4 p.m.

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BD+C

APRIL 10, 2023

Implementing human-centric design in operations and maintenance facilities 0 qpurcell Mon, 04/10/2023 - 12:08 Industrial Facilities Stantec's Ryan Odell suggests using the human experience to advance OMSF design that puts a focus on wellness and efficiency. The buildings seem made for giants, not people.

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BD+C

JULY 10, 2018

The Kent Police Station is located at a transition point between two different neighborhoods and architecturally distinct areas, meaning that the new structure had to serve multiple purposes.

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BD+C

JULY 26, 2016

A quick rundown of architecture and A/E firm innovations this year: • Adrian Smith+Gordon Gill Architecture Implemented VR into its standard design and visualization plan; using Grasshopper and Dynamo to create more robust Revit-to-Rhino interoperability.

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Autodesk Construction Cloud

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Needless to say, trying to design, coordinate, and build in and around these conditions is an uphill battle. Teams can then design and move forward confidently, knowing they’re working with models that accurately reflect the site’s current conditions. . A better design and coordination workflow .

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BD+C

OCTOBER 29, 2018

Since the first consumer-grade virtual reality (VR) headsets were released to the general public in spring 2016, VR has transitioned from an industry novelty to a nearly ubiquitous tool in architectural visualization. For SmithGroup, it took even less time for VR to advance from its infancy to indispensability.

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BD+C

JUNE 17, 2014

After his series of painters as architects , graphic designer Federico Babina comes back with a collection of illustrations called "Archimusic," an interpretation of songs from famous musicians into architecture form. From Björk to Bach, Babina visualizes how these sounds will look like if they were visible in the form of a building.

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Construction Specifier

OCTOBER 17, 2022

Photo courtesy Móz Designs. Structural elements such as columns are a key architectural component of every project. Equipping designers with column solutions that simultaneously meet design standards and building requirements enhance project outcomes. By Ernie Ngo. Various shapes and sizes.

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BD+C

JUNE 17, 2014

After his series of painters as architects , graphic designer Federico Babina comes back with a collection of illustrations called "Archimusic," an interpretation of songs from famous musicians into architecture form. From Björk to Bach, Babina visualizes how these sounds will look like if they were visible in the form of a building.

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Help Everybody Everyday

FEBRUARY 8, 2019

Every day, thousands of people are hard at work writing (and managing the efforts) for architecture proposals, engineering proposals, or construction proposals. AEC (or A/E/C) refers to the architecture, engineering, and construction industry. AEC (or A/E/C) refers to the architecture, engineering, and construction industry.

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Pro Builder

JUNE 12, 2020

How Do You Value Home Design? For a set of good floor plans, it is worth that and more, according to Housing Design Matters. Home building and designing professionals know the worth of well-designed architectural plans, but getting homebuyers to invest money into the idea can be a challenge.

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BD+C

JUNE 16, 2023

0 dbarista Fri, 06/16/2023 - 14:36 Virtual Reality With the aid of virtual reality and 3D visualization technologies, designers, consultants, and their clients can envision a place as though the project were in a later stage. Architects are trained to interpret 2D drawings and imagine designs in our heads.

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Natural Building

DECEMBER 30, 2019

Using mainly mud blocks, rammed earth and burnt bricks he designs spaces in their raw, natural state. He met the legendary Laurie Baker while studying architecture. Daniel decided to build his own residence to showcase his design. The post Natural Architecture in India appeared first on Natural Building Blog.

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Wolgast Corporation

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Whether it is a healthcare practice, manufacturing facility, office building, auto dealership, or restaurant, or if it is new construction or a remodel, we use the steps or phases of Design-Build construction to break down the commercial construction process most efficiently for our clients.

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CivilJungle

DECEMBER 17, 2020

Concept designs can be simply a series of sketches, ideas and explorations. it can also go into considerable depth, including design illustrations, indicative plans, sections and elevations and 3D Models of a development approach. ”. Architecture Concept Drawing. Types of Drawings for Building Design. Design Drawings.

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Autodesk Construction Cloud

DECEMBER 21, 2023

walls, floors, architecture, etc.). Essentially, 3D BIM lets you create and visualize the building's design. It includes the structure's geometry, such as walls, floors, roofs, and other architectural elements, as well as their physical properties like materials and finishes. What is 4D BIM?: What is 5D BIM?:

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Construction Specifier

AUGUST 11, 2021

Glass spandrels are a common design strategy used to opacify floor levels in building façades. These opaque glass assemblies are integrated into glazing systems, such as glass curtain walls or window walls, to provide visual continuity with adjacent vision glass to render an all-glass look to the building façade.

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Construction Marketing

JULY 7, 2022

Keep your home’s architecture and style in mind. Be sure to draw inspiration for suitable siding material and color to install to transform your exterior from your property’s architecture and style. Here are some perfect siding materials and colors you could choose for different home styles and architecture: . Vinyl siding.

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Construction Business Owner

JANUARY 18, 2021

For the architecture, engineering and construction (AEC) industry, this holds especially true. Thanks to the recent emergence of cloud-based BIM solutions, GCs, designers and owners can now work together to identify and resolve errors in real time, avoiding costly mistakes and reducing rework. Greg Ragsdale. Mon, 01/18/2021 - 15:19.

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BD+C

JANUARY 4, 2019

Mirage Porcelain Veneers | Oldcastle Architectural. Designed for vertical applications, such as outdoor walls, porcelain veneers are available in a variety of colors to coordinate with the Belgard porcelain paver collection. The tiles create a balanced, harmonious visual effect when laid in a staggered pattern, with no gaps.

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Pro Builder

AUGUST 4, 2020

Design Details: The Transparent Fireplace. Designer: Jane Hope . Metal Fabricator: Anthony Concrete Design. Photos: Courtesy Mark Olson Photography/ Anthony Concrete Design. Designer Jane Hope, who lives in a condo built in the early 1990s, felt her fireplace was overdue for an update. Anonymous (not verified).

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Construction Specifier

JUNE 4, 2020

Recent developments in virtual reality (VR) technology allow for the visualization of unbuilt information as full-scale occupiable environments, providing previously unavailable insight to designers, clients, and other stakeholders. BIM to VR for spatial visualization. Image © Amber Bartosh.

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Job Order Contracting

MARCH 24, 2021

Collaborative design for constructibility. All parties can visualize project and work order requirements at a granular level and drive efficient life-cycle management. Needs and deliverables are fully visualized and issues address earlier in the process.

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Pro Builder

JANUARY 26, 2022

Looking for Home Designs With Indoor-Outdoor Synergy? Garnett, FAIBD, House Review Lead Designer. This month, the House Review team offers designs that capture the outdoor excitement of lakefronts, atriums, and courtyards. ARCHITECT: Dahlin Group Architecture | Planning , marketing@dahlingroup.com , 925.251.7200.

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