No stranger to fame: Chicago architect boasts two new awards

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.

NIBS’ U.S. national specification update to include project handover data

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.

UW’s new mass timber hall will store carbon through building’s lifetime

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.

Adaptive reuse revives abandoned SF site into international furniture outlet

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.

Boston high-rise finds perfect fit in unitized curtain wall system

When the colonial-style Singaporean brand, Raffles, selected a prominent corner site in Boston as the location for its first North American mixed-use property, it was no surprise the project team chose a unitized curtain wall facade system for the building.

Polyiso: more than just continuous insulation

If building managers cannot adequately control water and moisture permeation within their wall assembly due to natural events and poor design, it can cause extensive damage. Polyiso continuous wall insulation not only resists water but also offers superior thermal resistance to help ensure long-term energy efficiency within the building envelope.