The Design-Build Institute of America (DBIA) has announced its 19th annual Design-Build Project/Team Award Winners. Recognized for exemplary collaboration and integration in design-build project ...

The profession of lighting design is a relatively young discipline among the building design and construction fields. Although lighting has certainly been an integral component of the built ...

Establishing procedures is as important to reducing hazards as it is to maintaining business operations on all levels. Procedures spell out the standards and conditions to be followed, and ...

Creating an energy-use model and cost profile early in a project design process—using lightweight tools and resources, such as energy use intensity data and DOE commercial benchmark model data—can ...

There are moments when architects take the design process beyond their practice and engage with potential users as design participants. This expands the design framework and makes the input of future ...

When designing community spaces, the architectural concept can easily clash with the user's experience. Therefore, engaging the community and future users in the project development and design process ...

When people think about high-end residential construction, they usually focus on design. They talk about architectural style, finishes and how a home looks on paper. But from my experience, design is ...