Friday5 - February 14, 2020 - MillerClapperton

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IN THIS WEEK’S FRIDAY5

2020 seems to be the year for high expectations. Maybe it’s the start of the new decade that has us racing toward improvement, and it seems like the construction industry is taking a positive outlook as well. 2020 is shaping up to be a year of interesting developments as there are a number of monumental projects that are either nearing completion or just getting off the ground. Construction Dive has rounded up 6 of the most newsworthy projects that everyone will be watching this year. From Denver’s airport to sin city’s Convention Center, there is no shortage of impressive projects underway.

Location: Ashland, VA
Product: ALUCOBOND PLUS (MCM)
General Contractor: Century Construction Company, LLC
Architect: McKinney & Company

Last Spring, ChemTreat broke ground on their new applied technology lab. The 25,000-square-foot facility is being constructed across the street from an existing ChemTreat manufacturing plant. The new lab will provide advanced capabilities to support the company’s water treatment customers with industry-leading water analysis. It will also feature state-of-the-art research and development facilities to enable ChemTreat to develop new technologies and solutions for its customers. For this project, MillerClapperton is fabricating 6,080 square feet of Metal Composite Material.

If you have plans to travel this year, there may be a museum worth visiting in your host city. There are a number of design-forward museums opening this year that will make it worth the trip. From the highly-anticipated Olympic & Paralympic Museum and Hall of Fame in Colorado Springs to the Academy of Motion Pictures in Los Angeles, they all have on thing in common: “each has been built and reconstructed with the goal of having its spaces first serve the and artifacts within.”

Wellness technology platform, Mindbody, has released its annual Wellness Index for 2020. The list reveals the healthiest cities in the U.S. based on a number of factors including residents’ overall health, behavior, attitudes towards wellness, and the success of local wellness businesses like gyms and spas. Researchers surveyed 20,000 adults in the 50 most populous cities, and analyzed health data from sources including the US Census and business listing services.

Recommendation: Living on Campus: An Architectural History of the American Dormitory
Author: Carla Yanni

If you were asked to name a few things that come to mind about American college life, dormitories would likely be at the top of that list. Student housing is one of those quintessential ideas one has about attending a college or university. These “dorms” establish college as more than a place where a person gains skills and knowledge before heading out into the world; they make higher education a distinctive life experience. In a new book, Living On Campus: An Architectural History of the American Dormitory, Carla Yanni, and architectural historian at Rutgers University, examines residence halls not as “mute containers for the temporary storage of youthful bodies and emergent minds.” Rather, she traces 300 years of this building type and sees dormitories as “evidence of educational ideals, ways to manage new types of students, and broader societal shifts.”

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