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- 1From:Building Design & Construction (Vol. 38, Issue 1)Nonresidential construction will continue to be in great demand in 1997 according to a Cahners Economics forecast. Commercial, retail, office, hotel/motel, industrial, institutional and health care construction rate is...
- 2From:Journal of Property Management (Vol. 57, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedThe heating, ventilating, and air conditioning (HVAC) system of a building is vital to the smooth operation and comfort of its tenants. Using about 40% of total energy consumption of a building, HVAC systems must be...
- 3From:Journal of Property Management (Vol. 60, Issue 6) Peer-ReviewedThe commercial leasing market is a tenant's market in most cities in the US. Despite the lack of new construction, the market is still fiercely competitive as a result of overdevelopment in the late 1980s and early 1990s...
- 4From:Building Design & Construction (Vol. 35, Issue 3)The project of adding a 34-story office tower on top of the six-story Grand Central Station Post Office at 450 Lexington in New York, NY, posed several design and construction challenges. The existing structure had to be...
- 5From:Architecture (Vol. 83, Issue 9)Architects in this country are probably most familiar with specifying laminated glass as a safety precaution in overhead sloped glazing. But this type of glazing--constructed of a polyvinyl butyral (pvb) resin...
- 6From:Building Design & Construction (Vol. 41, Issue 5)Seattle-based LMN Architects is architect for an 85,000-sq.-ft. expansion of the Computer Science and Engineering Building on the Seattle campus of the University of Washington. Minneapolis-based M.A. Mortenson Co. is...
- 7From:Building Design & Construction (Vol. 35, Issue 2)Owners of historic buildings must comply with the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 (ADA), which requires that all public buildings be made accessible to the physically handicapped. The challenge is to create...
- 8From:Journal of Property Management (Vol. 62, Issue 6) Peer-ReviewedThe manufactured housing business is not glamorous but offers attractive investment opportunities. It is a $9.5 billion market and is the fastest-growing sector of the US housing industry, accounting for one in every...
- 9From:Journal of Property Management (Vol. 56, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedMany property managers are using their amenities to gain a competitive advantage by providing better service to tenants. Commercial and office property managers can offer such amenities as an on-site restaurant, exercise...
- 10From:Journal of Property Management (Vol. 62, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedManufactured homes (MHs) have become the most popular affordable housing option in the US. Prefabricated houses currently account for one-third of all new housing in the country, with 363,411 being produced in 1996...
- 11From:Building Design & Construction (Vol. 37, Issue 12)[TABULAR DATA OMITTED]...
- 12From:Journal of Property Management (Vol. 64, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedPrefabricated landlease communities (PLCs) are emerging as an increasingly lucrative, expanding, elite communities. Residents of such neighborhoods purchase their homes then pay up to $2,000 a month in rent for the land...
- 13From:Building Design & Construction (Vol. 34, Issue 9)The US General Services Admin (GSA) has added a step to its design-build project procurements in hopes of streamlining the process that frustrated competitors for the Detroit, MI, Internal Revenue Service center and...
- 14From:School Arts (Vol. 88, Issue 7)Something Special in a Book ROUND BUILDINGS, SQUARE BUILDINGS & BUILDINGS THAT WIGGLE LIKE A FISH When we look at a building, what do we see? A remarkable new book, Round Buildings, Square Buildings, & Buildings That...
- 15From:Architecture (Vol. 88, Issue 5)In an era dominated by instant communication and overnight delivery, prefab construction seems as though it should be a natural. For the most part, however, manufactured buildings emerge from factories with social and...
- 16From:Building Design & Construction (Vol. 40, Issue 2)More than the sum of their parts, advanced modular and pre-engineered buildings now compete in quality with site-built construction Rick Bartolotti is a self-described trailer guy -- albeit a trailer guy trying to...
- 17From:Building Design & Construction (Vol. 38, Issue 1)Building designers and contractors expect the nonresidential construction sector to revive and be better financed in 1997. Increasing demand for school buildings and need to remodel old facilities will boost educational...
- 18From:Journal of Property Management (Vol. 55, Issue 5) Peer-ReviewedThe designs of older suburban office buildings tend to become outdated in 10 to 15 years, but building owners can effectively renovate and market buildings to prospective tenants. Owners should plan for renovations in...
- 19From:The Chronicle of Higher Education (Vol. 56, Issue 08)Byline: Scott Carlson The new green building on campus might be a big, bulky classroom facility or a research lab, but think of it for a moment as a sleek, high-performance automobile. Would you drive your Porsche...
- 20From:Journal of Property Management (Vol. 79, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedWhen deciding to build Houston's next Class A office building, Hines chose its location in downtown Houston strategically. The company made plans to develop BG Group Place on a distressed block of Main Street that had...