Author: Caryn Norton
The golden age of Hollywood may be behind us, but the demand for captivating content is higher than ever. A production boom is spreading across the west and a critical reality is now making itself known: There’s not enough specialized, physical studio space to keep up with it all.
For years, building contractors faced complaints of hand lacerations. The culprit? Metal studs. Despite warning labels and enforced PPE, the sharp edges of typical metal studs posed a sometimes-unnoticed threat, not only to workers but also to visitors to the jobsite.
Cushing Terrell partnered with longtime client, Metropolitan Market, to bring its global-inspired take on grocery to the rapidly transforming Crown Hill neighborhood of North Seattle. The new location transformed a 30-plus-year-old building into a beautiful, modern shopping destination—one that both fits the context of the up-and-coming neighborhood and ties into Metropolitan Market’s high-end brand.
Law firms are adapting to hybrid work with offices designed to support new ways of communicating, collaborating, and creating workplace culture.
Chris Bailey, creative design manager at Structure Tone London, is a visualization whiz. But he’s also a keen student of new technologies and always has his eyes
open for anything that may benefit his team’s projects and clients. When he saw how his STOBG colleagues in Texas were using reality capture tools like OpenSpace, he wanted in.
As the construction industry continually evolves, the industrial sector in the Southeast region, known for its vibrant ports and bustling trade, is met with cautious optimism, inundated with what’s trending, what’s changing and what the future holds. However, market dynamics are shifting toward smaller, specialized facilities to meet evolving lease demands and specifications.
By Ken Innella, President at LF Driscoll In recent years, healthcare construction projects in Pennsylvania have been responding to more stringent reviews elated to patient care risks. These reviews not only apply to spaces undergoing renovation but even those areas of a department untouched for the scope of the project. “Some hospital regulatory departments are engaged much earlier in the design process and remain involved in the construction process until the Pennsylvania Department of Health’s Division of Acute and Ambulatory Care (DAAC) inspection. As the Division of Safety Inspection approaches, regulators ramp up their involvement by increasing the amount of…
Mass timber is having a moment in both large and small construction. But it’s not a new phenomenon. In fact, cross-laminated timber, or CLT, traces its origins to advances in wood processing and fabrication about 30 years ago in Austria, Germany and Switzerland.
The contracting team on the 47-story TSX Broadway used lifts to raise the site’s original theater by 30 feet.