Salt Lake City adopted the nation’s first two consensus standards that address offsite construction last March, six months in advance of their publication by the International Code Council and the Modular Building Institute. Though ICC and MBI expect other jurisdictions to follow suit, to date there have been no other takers. 

What to do about natural gas will be one of the biggest challenges facing a new state-appointed commission on decarbonizing the building sector in the Bay State. 

3D printing could very well represent the next frontier for the construction of everything from affordable housing to high-end residential properties.

The expansive wave-shaped skylight erected over what was formerly the mail sorting room of New York’s historic James A. Farley Post Office was perhaps the single most eye-catching feature of this $1.6 billion renovation.

Centene Corporation, a leading multi-national healthcare enterprise, is establishing an East Coast headquarters in Charlotte, North Carolina.

DUO from PERI is challenging the state of the industry with its Fiber Reinforced Polymer formwork system that delivers quality concrete finish without the need for plywood and added equipment.

The century-old Times Square venue is being physically lifted into place at the $2.6-billion, 46-story building being constructed on its site.

“Building Material Selection and Use: An Environmental Guide” (BMEG) includes a database of 50 building materials and their properties.

Amazon’s 2.1-million-sq-ft Metropolitan Park office development near the nation’s capital could become a model for other large-scale sustainable projects. The building team is tracking a 15% reduction in embodied carbon in the project's 200,000 cu yd of concrete and the two 22-story buildings are on course to qualify as net-zero operational carbon.