Items Tagged with 'research'

In a 40-plus-year career as an owner and construction advisor, activist aims to reshape how women enter the sector and progress careers by uniting recruitment and retention efforts through research. 

What happens to permitting, design assumptions and risk models if the federal research backbone behind U.S. weather forecasting, NCAR, is broken apart?

Use cases for deploying artificial intelligence to augment safety practices on jobsites took center stage at the Construction Industry Institute annual conference.

Two stalwart, long-time editors of ENR retired recently: Events Executive Editor Jan Tuchman and Research and Associate Editor Scott Lewis.

A research team comprised of academics and industry professionals rolled out a new tool to assist firms with maximizing the value of their digital transformation on capital projects.

When it comes to getting a leg up in the race to attract research grants and top scientific talent, universities task designers and builders with providing as much pow for the punch as possible on their new facilities.

The HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology in Huntsville, Ala. is creating a biotech hub and leaning on established relationships to build facilities suited to exactly what researchers need, from customizable greenhouse spaces to handling excess heat from genomic sequencers.

To develop its first wide-scale production testing facility, biotech company GRAIL wanted to move quickly. It called on contractor Brasfield & Gorrie to deliver the $38-million, 200,000-sq-ft project in 5.5 months.

The building’s complex geometry of steel framing and exposed structural concrete help make it the Colorado campus’ new signature structure.