Exploring the cutting edge of neuroscience facility design
BWBR Communications Specialist Amanda Fisher shares the unique considerations and challenges of designing neuroscience facilities.
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Miller Hull
How to promote wellness through interior design
We spend most of our lives inside, and the spaces we inhabit have the potential to greatly impact our health depending on the kinds of design decisions made.
sponsored Ken Cook, Allegion
Visual Indication Trims Solve Security Challenges in Retrofits
Backwards compatible visual indication trims can help retrofits more readily achieve recommendations for safer school design.
LPA
Windows in K-12 classrooms provide opportunities, not distractions
On a knee-jerk level, a window seems like a built-in distraction, guaranteed to promote wandering minds in any classroom or workspace. Yet, a steady stream of studies has found the opposite to be true.
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sponsored | Ken Cook, Allegion | Jun 4, 2024
Enhancing Campus Security Using Locks with 180-degree Indication Trim
Indicator locks display the status of a door’s locking hardware. They can be important in enhancing safer school design.
GBBN | Jun 3, 2024
Insights for working well in a hybrid world
GBBN Principal and Interior Designer Beth Latto, NCIDQ, LEED AP, ID+C, WELL AP, share a few takeaways, insights, and lessons learned from a recent Post Occupancy Evaluation of the firm's Cincinnati, Ohio, office.
Design Collaborative | Jun 3, 2024
Escalation: Predicting project costs in a volatile market
Thad Berkes, Chief Cost Estimator, Design Collaborative, shares that one of the major hurdles that Design Collaborative attempts to forecast for its commercial construction projects is escalation.
HMC Architects | May 30, 2024
Inclusive design strategies to transform learning spaces
Students with disabilities and those experiencing mental health and behavioral conditions represent a group of the most vulnerable students at risk for failing to connect educationally and socially. Educators and school districts are struggling to accommodate all of these nuanced and, at times, overlapping conditions.
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sponsored | | May 29, 2024
Compelling Conversations: Panelized Walls for Multifamily Projects
Learn why a Colorado-based framing contractor favors panelized walls over traditional framing in APA’s Compelling Conversations.
Walter P Moore | May 28, 2024
Healthcare design: How to improve the parking experience for patients and families
Parking is likely a patient’s—and their families—first and last touch with a healthcare facility. As such, the arrival and departure parking experience can have a profound impact on their experience with the healthcare facility, writes Beth Bryan, PE, PTOE, PTP, STP2, Principal, Project Manager, Walter P Moore.
Graphite Design Group | May 28, 2024
‘Flowing’ design emphasizes interaction at Bellevue, Wash., development
The three-tower 1,030,000-sf office and retail development designed by Graphite Design Group in collaboration with Compton Design Office for Vulcan Real Estate is attracting some of the world’s largest names in tech and hospitality.
BWBR | May 23, 2024
The unique design needs of Critical Access Hospitals
BWBR healthcare principals Brad Krump, AIA, and Scott Kirchner, AIA, discuss their industry experience and passion for supporting the role that critical access hospitals play in their communities.
Gensler | May 20, 2024
10 spaces that are no longer optional to create a great workplace
Amenities are no longer optional. The new role of the office is not only a place to get work done, but to provide a mix of work experiences for employees.
sponsored | Devin Bowman, TGP | May 20, 2024
How to Bolster Classroom Security with Security-Rated Glazing
Several types of security-rated glazing play different roles in safer school design. This blog looks at three types and how they can enhance classroom security.
KTGY | May 15, 2024
Modular adaptive reuse of parking structure grants future flexibility
The shift away from excessive parking requirements aligns with a broader movement, encouraging development of more sustainable and affordable housing.
LPA | May 13, 2024
S.M.A.R.T. campus combines 3 schools on one site
From the start of the design process for Santa Clara Unified School District’s new preK-12 campus, discussions moved beyond brick-and-mortar to focus on envisioning the future of education in Silicon Valley.
NBBJ | May 10, 2024
Nature as the city: Why it’s time for a new framework to guide development
NBBJ leaders Jonathan Ward and Margaret Montgomery explore five inspirational ideas they are actively integrating into projects to ensure more healthy, natural cities.
