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Working with a trusted design team is a crucial step to making sure your building remains competitive.   As new-build, Class A skyscrapers come to market, the widely reported “flight to quality” is forcing older commercial buildings to evaluate their place in the conversation. A common response involves time-consuming and expensive infrastructure upgrades –– think…

Clean energy projects present a burgeoning means for Indigenous peoples to assert stewardship of natural resources, nurture sustainable economic growth and curb reliance on fossil fuels in remote, off-grid communities. As chair of the First Nations Major Projects Coalition, Chief Sharleen Gale of Fort Nelson First Nations has insight on where that’s happening and what’s…

Occupying a 2,600-square-meter, half-block lot in Seattle’s central business district, the project brief was for a 40,000-sm office building, ground floor retail, and 1,200-sm childcare center. The project is the final tower in a five-block master plan for single, Seattle-based tech leader. Acknowledging that this final phase is the smallest and shortest tower of the…

Businesses will be urged to tackle in-work sickness and stop people falling out the workforce, following the appointment of Dame Carol Black as the Government’s new Occupational Health Tsar. Dame Carol, who has decades of experience in medicine and policy advisory while having chaired multiple government reviews, will head up a Taskforce that will produce…

  The American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) and DiscoverE are teaming up to shine a spotlight on engineering with its annual National Engineers Week, Feb. 18-24. The week is designed to celebrate engineers and their contributions to the world while raising awareness about the public need for engineers and bringing attention to the profession…

Here are some tips and advice for modernizing if your electrical distribution system is decades old. Throughout the 1960 and 70s, many colleges and universities around the United States underwent significant campus expansions to accommodate the needs and demands of growing student populations –– fueled in large part by the Baby Boomers, one of America’s…