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Stantec-XL Construction start construction on new UC Davis Health Administrative Building

Stantec and XL Construction have started construction of new administrative office spaces for UC Davis Health, designed to support members of the university’s executive leadership team, as well as employees in the finance, revenue, and IT departments. The state-of-the-art facility will provide a central location for these operational groups, include dedicated lab space for research and prototyping, and comfortably accommodate the university’s current team while providing flexibility for future growth.

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Lowe tops out 2130 Violet Street, Los Angeles Arts District office building

Lowe announced this week the topping out of construction at 2130 Violet Street, an approximately 113,000-square-foot, nine-story office building located in the vibrant Arts District in downtown Los Angeles. Completion is anticipated in early-2022. “The Violet Street office building will offer companies and individual employees a work environment with abundant natural light, operable windows and doors to bring fresh air and connection to California’s mild enticing climate, flexible space design options and outdoor gathering spaces, located in a burgeoning creative district,” said Tom Wulf, executive vice president, Lowe. “The events of the recent pandemic have highlighted and focused our efforts to deliver a new building that will meet the needs of employer’s health and wellness objectives.”

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Stantec/Hensel Phelps team completes construction for Sound Transit’s new light rail base in Seattle area

Sound Transit recently completed construction of its new Operations and Maintenance Facility: East (OMF East), which will service, maintain, store, and deploy Link light rail vehicles for its growing fleet in the Puget Sound area. As Sound Transit’s light rail service area grows through 2024, the vehicle fleet will expand from its current 62 vehicles to 214. The facility was delivered by the design-build team of Stantec, Hensel Phelps Construction Co., and partners. Construction started in 2018.

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SOLARBAN® glass with acid-etched panels help university building function as mini-city

Diamond Schmitt’s innovative architectural design of the Peter George Centre for Living and Learning (PGCLL) at McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, includes a four-story, skylit atrium; a 650-seat auditorium and connecting helical staircase; and a U-shaped block of daylit residential and study spaces. Solarban® 67 and Solarban® 70 solar control, low-emissivity (low-e) glasses by Vitro Architectural Glass were chosen to enhance the building’s aesthetics and environmental performance, while “Nuance” acid-etched patterns from Walker Glass make the glass curtainwalls more decorative.

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CallisonRTKL breathes new life into Jefferson Cherry Hill Hospital

Global architecture, design, and strategy firm CallisonRTKL (CRTKL) worked alongside Jefferson Health to design and expand the health system at their Cherry Hill, N.J. campus. Completed in November 2020, the expansion added public spaces, surgical services, diagnostics, an outdoor dining terrace, cafeteria, healing garden, pharmacy, 120 inpatient beds, and 90 patient rooms to the existing hospital.

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Woolpert designs iconic replacement for Capers Hall at The Citadel

The Citadel contracted with Woolpert to be the architect of record for the Capers Hall Replacement Project at the Charleston, S.C., campus, providing architecture, landscape architecture, interior design and structural engineering. Creech & Associates PLLC is the design architect; DWG Consulting Engineers will provide mechanical, electrical and plumbing (MEP) engineering and fire protection; and structural and civil engineering is being designed by ADC Engineering.

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A-Frame Club in Winter Park, Colorado

The A-Frame Club is a new hotel brand, both modern and nostalgic, that takes design cues from 1970s American ski culture and the iconic A-frame cabins of that era. The first Club will consist of 31 newly constructed cabins along with a bar and restaurant in a historic saloon building, located in the Old Town neighborhood of Winter Park, Colorado.

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AviProtek® and SOLARBAN® glasses deliver a bird-friendly, science-on-display façade for the University of Saskatchewan’s Collaborative Science Research Building

Embracing a “science-on-display” theme, the state-of-the-art Collaborative Science Research Building at the University of Saskatchewan in Canada delivers an integrated, sustainable environment for the school’s biology and agricultural departments. Helping the building qualify for Green Globes certification, Keith Henry, FRAIC, SAA, LEED AP, a partner with Henry Downing Architects, said that insulating glass units (IGU) with Solarban® 70 glass were selected to reduce heat gain and maximize visible light.

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Branch Technology completes the first 3D-printed commercial building envelope in the United States

Branch Technology has created another category defining project with Tennessee Valley Federal Credit Union’s newest office building.  This is the first 3D printed GFRC façade in the world; it also defines several other categories, the first commercial building with a 3D printed building envelope in the US, and the first freeform 3D printed composite project ever. 

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The Ledger tops out in Bentonville, Arkansas

Today, the Ledger, a 230,000 square-foot fully flexible office building in the heart of downtown Bentonville, tops out. The project, conceived of and designed as a collaborative effort between Marlon Blackwell Architects, Michel Rojkind, Christian Callaghan, and Haruka Horiuchi, serves as a new civic connector between the commercial and arts corridors. 

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Cradle to Cradle Certified products

The Cradle to Cradle program certifies products based on five quality categories—material health, material reutilization, renewable energy and carbon management, water stewardship, and social fairness. Click here to see a list of building supply & materials, as well as other products, that are Cradle to Cradle certified.

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