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| AIA prohibits members from designing incarceration spaces |
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| The American Institute of Architects’ (AIA’s) board has approved new rules prohibiting members from knowingly designing spaces intended for execution and torture. |
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| Zaha Hadid Architects to reconstruct Huanggang Port Area in China |
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| Designed by Zaha Hadid Architects, the future Huanggang Port Area will be a national center for technology innovation. |
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| Thermal and Acoustical Insulation: Understanding Vapor and Thermal Barriers |
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| Exclusive: Designing worship spaces for “Zoom” congregations |
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Religious organizations around the world have adopted innovative methods to serve their communities. Some have embraced technologies and new formats for virtual worship. Architect Victor Body-Lawson, AIA, takes us behind the screens of virtual services. |
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| Virtual reality as a tool for sustainable design |
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| 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. The capabilities of these technologies offer opportunities for communicating and analyzing the quantitative and material aspects of design in an immersive and understandable way.
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| Project News |
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| Acoustic ceilings are a slam dunk for Oklahoma school’s multipurpose space |
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| Oklahoma’s Noble Public School’s fine arts auditorium and gymnasium serves 2860 students in its district. With a playful nod to the school’s bear mascot, the facility was dubbed ‘the Den’ and opened for the 2019-20 academic year. Aluminum ceiling panels were utilized to meet the design, budget, and acoustical goals of the multipurpose space. |
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| Inside CSI |
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| ADAPTING AIA-BASED SPECS FOR ENGINEERING PROJECT |
| My employer maintains separate libraries of master specs for our architectural and engineering projects. The former is oriented on using AIA documents for Div 00, while the latter are based on EJCDC's C-Series Documents as Div 00. From time to time, someone in senior management asks why separate spec libraries are necessary, or, "Can we make them more interchangeable?" To this end, I've been asked to prepare guidance for engineering staff who may want or need to use an architectural master spec on an engineering project that includes our EJCDC Div 00. What advice might be offered for someone who seeks to adapt an architectural spec (developed for use with AIA documents) for use on an engineering project, or with some other Div 00.
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| COVID-19 AND THE HOLIDAYS: TIMELY TIPS FOR THE NEW YEAR |
| This is the time when families come together in multi-generational gatherings to celebrate many things, both personal and religious. We will have the very young and the elderly coming together at a time when they both are highly susceptible to the disease. In addition, many things are shared, families are gathered in very crowded conditions in homes that are not as well ventilated as needed, and in situations where people are eating and drinking together. In this environment, the potential for a Covid-19 outbreak is increased to almost unbearable limits. How do we handle this you may ask?
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