AI-powered design optimizes system layouts, ensuring code compliance and reducing material waste, leading to more efficient construction processes. The construction industry faces a surge in demand ...

Some buildings have withstood the test of time. After centuries or even millennia, they’ve remained structurally sound, revered as inhabitable spaces of human history and innovation. Some are still ...

Last time in our Resilient Design blog series, Chief Sustainability Officer Ellen Mitchell-Kozack asked “What is resilience?” and discussed our responsibility as designers to address the looming ...

Taller buildings get a bad rap. New research from University of Toronto Engineering's Center for the Sustainable Built ...

HANNAH Office is a US-based experimental research and design studio whose work focuses on advancing architecture and contemporary construction practices by examining the possibilities of new digital ...

The global pandemic has dramatically shifted many of the norms, expectations and market demands that shape apartment buildings nationwide. The rental sector in particular is undergoing a dynamic ...

Over the last decade, the U.S. Green Building Council’s LEED program has established itself as the preeminent industry standard for rating green buildings. Despite LEED’s remarkable success, however, ...

Ramla Karim Qureshi receives funding from Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC). McMaster University provides funding as a founding partner of The Conversation CA.

A renovation of a pair of brick buildings at Peabody College at Vanderbilt University led by SGA Architects connects the historic structures via a contrasting glass volume. 6 Magnolia Circle, built in ...