Architecture 6 Strategies for Challenging the Status Quo in Design-Driven Engineering by Cathy Chatfield-Taylor Architects and engineers execute gravity-defying design together—with the former getting the glory. Here are six ways a design-driven engineering firm is rethinking creative collaboration.
Infrastructure Wild Side: 6 Ways Cities Are Turning Urban Settings Into Nature Havens by Rosa Trieu After decades of denaturing, cities across the globe are renaturing—bringing nature back to urban areas through parks, gardens, and rewilding efforts.
Construction Prevent Your Extinction: Why BIM Matters in 2020 and Beyond [Infographic] by Kylee Swenson See how BIM adoption, mandates, and policies are growing around the globe and why BIM will be so important to the built world in 2020.
Sustainability Four Young Architects Are Going Against the Tide to Seek Global Water Solutions by Matt Alderton The architecture industry is largely failing to address a growing global problem: water scarcity. See how four architecture students are bucking this trend with innovative water solutions.
Architecture A Futuristic Building Tests Agile Design—While Its Residents Actually Live There by Friederike Voigt NEST in Switzerland is a futuristic building and test lab under one (solar) roof. Replete with actual residents, NEST is exploring agile innovations for the digitized construction landscape.
Engineering 5 Steps to Changing Organizational Culture and Designing Your Future Workforce by Carmel Galvin All companies need a culture—the set of values, attitudes, and behaviors—that will set them up for success. This five-step plan to changing organizational culture is a good start.
Architecture Real-Time Tech Goes Beyond AR and VR for Smarter Models, Better Building Design by Zach Mortice Smarter building starts with smarter modeling. VR and extended reality will touch all aspects of the industry, from selling an idea to refining the design and streamlining construction.
Sustainability A Floating Lab Aims to Promote a Healthy Marine Habitat in the San Francisco Bay by Zach Mortice Researchers launched a floating lab into San Francisco Bay, aiming to cultivate an unconventional home for sea flora and fauna and gain insights into the bay’s complex marine habitat.
Construction For Colombia’s Cancer Patients, Sustainable Hospital Design Saves Lives by Matt Alderton Emerging from decades of civil war, Colombia has a new battleground: cancer. The country is bringing out the big guns of sustainable hospital design to better serve patients—and the planet.
