Design Forecast® contains the advice, research, and ideas that our clients need to know right now. These eight trends are what we see as the most important signals and key opportunities in the building industry today.

Manage a law firm for long enough and you will inevitably face the following question: what do we do with this office space?

Life sciences buildings have unique space requirements for office and laboratory areas. This combination can be an economic challenge for new construction, however, especially in urban cores. Repositioning an existing building is one way to deliver a modern workspace with a compelling backstory.

As builders, one of our core markets is corporate interiors, which adds up to over 2,500 small projects every year. These “day two” projects, as they’re often called, can range in size from $10,000 to $5M and, from a schedule perspective, anywhere from just a few days to several months. Managing these fast paced projects with multiple stakeholders and many moving parts is one of the industry’s toughest challenges. While our project teams are well versed in the nature of these fast-track projects, we know they can be challenging for our subcontractors and partners to keep up with, let alone our clients and project stakeholders.

After a few years of turmoil in the real estate industry and the wider economy comes The Great Reset, according to Emerging Trends in Real Estate 2024, a report published Wednesday by the Urban Land Institute and PwC.

KPMG’s 2023 Global Construction Survey presents insights from 267 individuals; professionals from engineering and construction firms (121) and project owners (146) from a variety of industries.

Each year, DOE releases an annual report with key findings, updates, and metrics from the Better Buildings Initiative. Year over year, Better Climate Challenge and Better Buildings Challenge partners are pursuing ambitious GHG, energy, water, and waste reduction goals, and sharing their proven solutions with the marketplace.

Wildfires, hurricanes, tornadoes, flooding—as severe weather becomes the norm, how are high-risk communities preparing for the worst?

The Biden administration is getting in on the office-to-residential conversion push, releasing a guidebook Friday morning on how the federal government can help facilitate conversions.

As office buildings struggle with record-high vacancies and many owners face distress, architects are attempting to find new uses for empty buildings, and they are reimagining the design of new projects to ensure they don’t become obsolete.

Cranes, of course, are used for all kinds of purposes in construction, from erecting the core and shell components of a building to lifting mechanical units or supplies to a building’s roof. But when and how to safely plan the actual lift is a process unto itself—one that requires extremely detailed planning and a critical focus on safety.

The wood product represents a “huge untapped potential” to drive down the city’s carbon footprint, said the New York City Economic Development Corp.