The construction industry continued to see growth or stability in all its sectors last year. Anchored by significant momentum in the residential sector again, businesses largely flourished. According to FMI’s Civil Infrastructure Index, most organizations have seen stability in both profitability and the competitive landscape. However, despite the industry’s overall performance, there are still lingering signs of troubled waters for all businesses. Check out this article in Construction Business Owner for an overview of several trends that are at the forefront of everyone’s mind this year.
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Location: Gainesville, GA
Products: Alucobond (MCM); Morin (PSS); Prodema (HPL); Construction Specialties (Louvers)
General Contractor: Brasfield & Gorrie LLC
Architects: Perkins + Will
Northeast Georgia Health System (NGHS) recently opened a new, multi-story tower that is the region’s newest destination for emergency care, heart care and one of the state’s few Level I Trauma Centers, making the hospital the third largest in the state by bed size. Located next to the existing North Patient Tower, the 11-story, 927,000-square-foot Green Tower features a new emergency department on the ground floor, which includes dedicated areas for trauma, resuscitation, minor care, behavioral health and pediatrics. On the roof of the tower is a helipad with dedicated elevators to take patients directly to the emergency room, operating rooms or cardiac catheterization lab. The tower’s first floor is also home to many Georgia Heart Institute services including cardiac testing, catheterization labs and endovascular operating rooms, as well as a new café. The second floor adds five operating rooms and is the new home of the Ronnie Green Cardiovascular Intensive Care Unit. Additional floors include a coronary care unit, cardiovascular intermediate care unit, and the Woody Steward Heart Failure Treatment Unit.
For this project, which consisted of the hospital, CEF building and parking deck, MillerClapperton fabricated and installed approximately 18,300 square feet of Metal Composite Material (MCM); 48,000 square feet of Profiled/Single-Skin (PSS) metal panels; 17,900 square feet of High-Pressure Laminate (HPL) Panels; and 9,300 square feet of Louvers.
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Earlier this month, Chinese architect Liu Jiakun was announced as the winner of the 2025 Pritzker Architecture Prize. While much of the past two decades have been defined by “starchitecture,” the futuristic, eye-catching buildings designed by globally renowned architects, the architecture industry has begun shifting toward a more context-driven, human centered approach. China has been emerging as one of the key contributors to this transformation, and this year’s 2025 Pritzker Prize winner underscores this shift. In this article from ArchDaily, Moises Carrasco takes a look at previous winners and how this year highlights work that leads to a more human-centered approach to architecture.
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Spring break is upon us, and summer vacations are currently being planned. If you’re looking for somewhere different to go, this list in Architectural Digest highlights 21 of the most beautiful places in the world from black-sand beaches and blue ice caves, to granite peaks and glacial ice, the City of Lights and a city carved in stone.
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Recommendation: A Century of Tomorrows: How Imagining the Future Shapes the Present by Glenn Adamson
Published by: Bloomsbury
Historian Glenn Adamson looks backwards in his new book, “A Century of Tomorrows: How Imagining the Future Shapes the Present,” where is surveys the history of futurology, trend forecasting and predictions. Once relegated to the mystical, Adamson’s story begins at the turn of the 20th century, when futurism moved from the spiritual to the concrete, and moves between a diverse group of thinkers, sci-fi writers and government bureaucrats set in scenes from hippie communes to corporate boardrooms.
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