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L.A.’s arts & media school gets two new minimally designed, functional structures

Loyola Marymount University’s Westchester campus’ new School of Film and Television facility, and outdoor performance stage are both designed with rich materials supporting a minimalist aesthetic and prioritizing functionality to promote the broader learning purpose and connections.

$20B Intel Ohio project to utilize extensive quantities of steel and concrete

The construction of two semiconductor manufacturing facilities under the $20 billion Intel Ohio project, in New Albany, Licking County, Ohio, will require as much steel as eight Eiffel Towers and as much concrete as the world’s tallest skyscrapers.

Buffalo AKG Art Museum expansion aims for inclusivity, interaction, porousness

The renewed and expanded campus of the Buffalo AKG Art Museum will stretch alongside the city’s Delaware Park, with three new points of entry, to increase the accessibility of the facilities and engage all members of its community with an inclusive, interactive, and porous site.

Fed govt.’s new actions support the move to greener buildings

The Biden Administration’s first-ever Federal Building Performance Standard sets an ambitious goal to cut energy use and electrify equipment and appliances in 30 percent of the building space owned by the Federal government by 2030.

Hydrophobic coatings unlock protection against water intrusion

Water intrusion causes significant problems for buildings and can go as far as damaging the structure. The building products industry is continuously looking for new technologies to assist with the prevention of water damage. Nature, as a notorious problem solver, often inspires solutions within the industry.

Advancements in the evaluation of reflective insulation assemblies

The determination of a reflective insulation assembly R-value is done using a hot box facility. The hot box provides one-dimensional steady-state R-values. The large number of possible reflective insulation assembles is a motivation for computational techniques for the evaluation of their thermal resistances. The consideration of factors and conditions that have had limited evaluation in the past is the subject of this article.