Friday5 – August 14, 2026

The new Pickens Hall is a central academic hub on the Tri-County Technical College’s Pendelton campus. The original 42,000-square-foot building built in 1963 is being replaced with a modern, two-story, 52,000-square-foot facility designed to support the college’s evolving academic mission. The building will be home to the Business and Public Services, Academic and Career Foundations, Early Childhood Education, and Lifetime Fitness and Wellness programs.

MillerClapperton is fabricating and installing 9,000 square feet of Metal Composite Material (MCM) panels and 800 square feet of Profile Single-Skin (PSS) panels, to give the new hub a clean, contemporary exterior.

As with every new school year, there are new teachers, new classrooms, new expectations, and probably a few new challenges along the way.

Even though they walked out of school only a few months ago, they walk back in seeing things a little differently.

It made me think about how rarely we give ourselves that same opportunity in business.

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While once associated with warm weather construction, aluminum sunshades are now showing up on buildings across every U.S. climate zone on everything from educational campuses, healthcare facilities, corporate offices and government centers. Aluminum sunshades are a versatile and reliable tool that offer both functional performance and architectural expression.

Host: ENR Senior Editor Jeff Yoders

On this episode of Engineering News Record’s Critical Path podcast, Bluebeam CEO Usman Shuja discusses the role of PDF technology in construction documents. Hosted by ENR Senior Editor Jeff Yoders, they also talk about what the AI-powered future holds for Bluebeam and parent company Nemetschek AG.