Fire Safety Should Not Suppress Design
The role of the fire protection engineer (FPE) is to assist project managers in the design of efficient and cost-effective fire protection and alarm systems that protect both people and…
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Staging Buildings Bring Permanence to Transition
The staging building’s first occupants-dancers-will use the roll-up doors to create a performance space that bridges indoors and outdoors. The roll-up doors will also be useful when bringing in equipment…
Lay of the Land
PROJECT DATA Architect: HMC Architects General Contractor: Lusardi Construction Co. Owner: San Pasqual Elementary School District Grades: K-8 Project Cost: $11.3 million Completion Date: August 2001 If you don’t know…
A Center for All
The southern façade of the Frist Campus Center is new construction that was filled into the "arms" of the existing, U-shaped Palmer Hall, circa 1909. The Princeton shield is fritted…
Acoustical Standards Begin to Reverberate
Hearing, speech, and acoustical consultants and scientists believe that as many as one-third of all school students are missing up to 33 percent of verbal communications in class. It is…
Good Sports
When pro athletes retire, many find it challenging to create a new career. Former linebacker Scott Radecic earned a degree in architectural engineering while attending Pennsylvania State University, so when…
Building a Safer Athletic Playing Field
There are hundreds of thousands of playing fields dotting the earth’s landscape with enough natural and synthetic turf to stretch a foot-wide swath to the moon and back. The world’s…
Improve Student Life by Designing for the Community
Interior and exterior views of student apartments at Oklahoma State University. University housing that’s designed to emphasize community can support and enhance a student’s everyday life. Connections to community are…