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4 key innovations and construction trends across airport design

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4 key innovations and construction trends across airport design 0 qpurcell Mon, 12/04/2023 - 10:04 Airports Here are some of the key trends Skanska is seeing in the aviation sector, from congestion solutions to sustainability. Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport. Over the past few years, this 1.3

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The next destination: Passive design airports

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The next destination: Passive design airports 0 qpurcell Thu, 04/18/2024 - 13:59 Airports Today, we can design airports that are climate resilient, durable, long-lasting, and healthy for occupants—we can design airports using Passive House standards. By using passive design strategies to heat and cool the building.

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ASU Health Futures Center combines a novel design and approach to learning

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The notion of open learning environments in higher education is trending, leading to the design of more collegiate buildings worldwide that are meant to remove barriers between students, faculty and disciplines. Ground recently was broken on the facility, which is located adjacent to the Mayo Clinic campus, in northeast Phoenix.

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Using data to design the sports venue of the future

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Using data to design the sports venue of the future 0 qpurcell Thu, 02/23/2023 - 10:20 Arenas Former video game developer Abe Stein and HOK's Bill Johnson discuss how to use data to design stadiums and arenas that keep fans engaged and eager to return. The big idea for designers?

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Make It Resilient 2024 Student Contest Encourages New Ways to Build for Extreme Environments

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With its latest annual Make It Real program, Autodesk is challenging high school students to imagine how to design and build a habitat for an extreme environment. In the end, the habitat design should help answer the question, “What if extreme environment habitats embraced their unique surroundings to enhance human well-being?”

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Behind the Build: Interview with Jon Turner, President and Principal Engineer, Phoenix Civil Engineering

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Here to talk more about this topic is Jon Turner , President and Principal Engineer at Phoenix Civil Engineering. Tell us a little bit about Phoenix Civil Engineering and what you specialize in. We’re a small design and engineering firm and we do civil engineering design work.

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4 ways designers can help chief heat officers reduce climate change risks

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4 ways designers can help chief heat officers reduce climate change risks 0 qpurcell Mon, 04/10/2023 - 09:40 Sustainability Eric Corey Freed, Director of Sustainability, CannonDesign, shares how established designers and recently-emerged chief heat officers (CHO) can collaborate on solutions for alleviating climate change risks.

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