Brigham and Women’s Hospital Opens Doors at New Facility

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  • On October 12, 2016
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BOSTON— Brigham and Women’s Hospital’s Building for Transformative Medicine located in Boston opened its doors to patients Oct. 3. The building is designed to serve patients suffering from chronic neurologic, orthopedic, and rheumatologic conditions like Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease and rheumatoid arthritis. Construction began June 2013 and the building currently features eight floors of research […]
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Best Practices for Building School Athletics & Recreation Centers

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  • On October 11, 2016
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By Stuart Meurer ASHBURNHAM, Mass. — Cushing Academy in Ashburnham opened the doors to its new athletic facility, the Watkins Field House, in April 2016. From the outside, the building displays a traditional brick façade with steel construction and an expansive glass curtainwall on the north side, all cut into a hillside. After entering through […]
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Building Broadcast-Quality School Media Rooms

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  • On October 11, 2016
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By Douglas Glenn Clark Now that STEM is STEAM — with the Arts added back into Science, Technology, Engineering and Math — a growing number of school administrators are adding broadcast quality school media rooms for students interested in pursuing radio and TV careers. To train students for professional broadcasting careers, one of the first […]
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HGA Uses Biomimicry in East Los Angeles College Building

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  • On October 11, 2016
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MONTEREY PARK, Calif. — In an effort to promote interdisciplinary communication for students, colleges across the country continue to consolidate related departments into one building, and East Los Angeles College (ELAC) in Monterey Park is no different. The college recently debuted a $55 million, 135,000-square-foot Language Arts and Humanities Building that consolidates nine, once-dispersed departments […]
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Efficient Program Management Drives $267 Million Goose Creek CISD Makeover: Part II

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  • On October 11, 2016
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By J.P. Grom BAYTOWN, Texas — Headquartered in Baytown is one of the fastest growing school districts in Texas — the Goose Creek Consolidated Independent School District (GCCISD). Driven by multi-billion dollar expansions at petrochemical companies such as ExxonMobil, Chevron and ConocoPhillips, this property-wealthy district is projecting more than 4,500 new students over the next […]
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Health Care Design Caters to Autism Spectrum Disorder

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  • On October 5, 2016
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By Viviane Chan More and more people are being diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). For health care construction and design professionals, this means that a greater understanding of the special requirements of this growing patient demographic is needed to create spaces that are optimized to their wellbeing. Special Design Requirements Many autistic children are […]
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Efficient Program Management Drives $267 Million Goose Creek CISD Makeover

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  • On October 4, 2016
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By J.P. Grom BAYTOWN, Texas — Headquartered in Baytown is one of the fastest growing school districts in Texas — the Goose Creek Consolidated Independent School District (GCCISD). Driven by multi-billion dollar expansions at petrochemical companies such as ExxonMobil, Chevron and ConocoPhillips, this property-wealthy district is projecting more than 4,500 new students over the next […]
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2016 Project to Watch Update: University of Massachusetts Celebrates Project Milestone

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  • On October 4, 2016
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NEW BEDFORD, Mass. — The $55 million, 76,000-square-foot expansion of the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth School for Marine Science and Technology (SMAST), a 2016 Project to Watch, reached a major construction milestone on Sept. 26. The university officially celebrated the facility’s topping out in a celebration attended by students, faculty, staff and state and local […]
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Incomplete Construction Leads Lawmakers to Ask for Change

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  • On September 28, 2016
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AURORA, Colo. — When plans to build a Veterans Hospital took shape in 2010, no one expected things to get so complicated. Six years later the Veterans Hospital, located in Aurora is still under construction and on Sept. 23 lawmakers asked the U.S. Department of Justice to investigate if Veterans Affairs (VA) executives lied to […]
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New York Harbor School Center Emphasizes Marine Sciences

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  • On September 28, 2016
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GOVERNORS ISLAND, N.Y. — The New York City School Construction Authority (SCA) and New York-based architectural firm John Ciardullo, P.C. (JC) recently completed the Marine and Science Technology (MAST) Center at the Urban Assembly New York Harbor School. The school is located on Governors Island, a 172-acre island located approximately 800 yards from the southern […]
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