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With conference season in full swing here at BuiltWorlds, it is important to take stock of the lessons learned from those events to ensure we’re contributing to our broader mission: driving innovation in the architecture, engineering, construction, and adjacent industries.
For the first time, the owner, contractor, and architect collectively offset 100% of a project’s emitted carbon. A revitalized retail and entertainment hub in Seattle’s South Lake Union neighborhood, Lake Union Piers is The Miller Hull Partnership’s first project to achieve the owner/contractor/architect decarbonization component of EMission Zero.
It may surprise you that patient privacy falls under an architect’s responsibility. But privacy as well as technical needs informed Ennead Architects’s core design decisions for the Jefferson Health Honickman Center in Philadelphia—a feat, given the building’s generous use of glass.
“Why are we here? It’s because we’re all instigators,” asserted Rob Leon, chief innovation officer at STO Building Group, speaking at BuiltWorlds’ recent Construction Tech Conference in Chicago.
Over a series of Horizons videos, podcasts, and articles Hogan Lovells explore how some of the hot topics of the day are tackled in New York City and London.
As the concept of circularity becomes increasingly more important in the built environment, the concepts of deconstruction and reuse have met many roadblocks in the commercial sector. The Project Manager’s Guide to Material Reuse in Commercial Buildings highlights how the commercial building sector can shift long held practices to produce more sustainable, circular, and less wasteful construction projects. In this guide, STOBG sustainability manager Michael Orbank contributes construction best practices that are being piloted on jobsites: highlighting material takeback programs, site separation techniques, and reuse pathways for traditionally landfilled products.
In Q2 2024, hotels in the total pipeline grew 9% annually, with extended stay remaining popular and upper midscale leading other segments, according to Lodging Econometrics.
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.