The Hurley Building, part of the Boston Government Services Center (BGSC), is to receive a transformation into a mixed-use development, to revive the unfinished and neglected brutalist structure and improve neighborhood connections in the 2.2-ha (5.5-acre) Downtown Boston site.
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The structure of the Children’s Museum of Eau Claire (CMEC), being built in Wisconsin, utilizes responsibly sourced mass timber, with round-timber columns, joist and girder trusses replacing conventional steel and concrete, resulting in carbon sequestration worth more than 158,757 kg (350,000 lb).
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American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) has awarded two California projects its San Francisco section 2022 project awards: outstanding geotechnical award for YouTube’s HQ in San Bruno, and outstanding seismic retrofit award for Riverside Elementary in San Pablo.
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A global report by United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) has found that despite an increase in investment and worldwide success in lowering the energy intensity of buildings, the sector’s total energy consumption and CO2 emissions increased in 2021 above pre-pandemic levels.
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Denver International Airport (DEN), the U.S.’s largest airport, and one of world’s busiest, recently opened its new Concourse A-West, built to reach the goal of increasing the airport’s overall gate capacity by 30 percent, and expanding the annual traffic to the airport to 100 million within the next decade.
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New York’s American Museum of Natural History’s the Richard Gilder Center for Science, Education, and Innovation utilized shotcrete to evoke the Earth’s natural rock formations, in hopes of raising a sense of discovery, connection, and exploration within visitors.
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An adaptive reuse project has creatively transformed two vacant buildings at San Francisco’s 99 Missouri St. into the new showroom of the international furniture retailer, Blu Dot.
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The National Institute of Building Sciences (NIBS) Building Information Management Council (BIMC) is planning the upcoming release of COBie 3.0, an update to the Construction to Operations Building information exchange (COBie 2.4) Specification, which will provide new project handover data usable by professionals around the world.
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The newly built Founders Hall in the Foster School of Business at Washington University (UW), Seattle, is a six-story mass timber building that will store more than 1000 tons (2000 lbs) of CO2 for decades, keeping carbon out of the atmosphere for the lifetime of the building.
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Architect Jeanne Gang, FAIA, founding principal and partner of Studio Gang, has received two awards for her life’s work: The Urban Land Institute (ULI)’s 2022 Prize for Visionaries in Urban Development, and The Wall Street Journal (WSJ.)’s 2022 Architecture Innovator award.
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