The construction industry is short on people, time, expertise and margin for error. Making a mistake can have mean added expenses on an already tight budget. As workforce constraints deepen, technology is being used as the great equalizer. This article in Building Enclosure highlights how everyone from building envelope consultants, architects and contractors are using digital tools to stretch resources, eliminate communication breakdowns and ensure quality doesn’t slip.
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Location: Hiram, GA
Products: Alucobond (MCM)
General Contractor: Choate Construction
Architect: Smallwood
GreyStone Power Corp., a member-owned cooperative providing electricity and related services to more than 123,000 members, opened its new headquarters in Paulding County, GA, in March 2021. The company’s first major expansion in more than 30 years, the four-building campus is spread over 63 acres near the geographic center of its eight-country service area. The four key buildings include the administration headquarters, operations and engineering, a warehouse, and vehicle maintenance building. For this project, MillerClapperton fabricated and installed approximately 700 square feet of Metal Composite Material (MCM) panels on the 93,800-square-foot administration building, which includes corporate offices, a multipurpose room, credit services, cashiering, a call center and fitness center.
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The Associated Builders and Contractors (ABC) recently released its 2025 Health and Safety Performance Report, an annual guide to construction jobsite health and safety best practices. According to this year’s report, construction companies that participate in ABC’s STEP Health and Safety Management System achieve incident rates 658% safer than the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics construction industry average, which reduced the total recordable incident rates by 85%. Click the link below to see this year’s report.
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Public squares are supposed to act as points of transition, oases amongst dense urban fabrics, places for entertainment, as well as spaces that leave room for spontaneity and interaction. This article in Architizer looks at just how much “design” a public square should have. One approach is to put different, playful architectural elements within the space, while the other is to allow voids and empty spaces provide simpler and more subtle spaces within a busy urban area.
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Recommendation: “Almost Nothing: Reclaiming Edith Farnsworth” by Nora Wendl
Published by: University of Illinois Press
In “Almost Nothing: Reclaiming Edith Farnsworth,” Nora Wendl takes another look at the well-told story of Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Edith Farnsworth and the Edith Farnsworth House. While it’s always been assumed that Mies and Edith were lovers, Edith’s real role as an intellectual aesthete and renowned physician who cured a once-fatal form of kidney disease is often overlooked. In this book of creative nonfiction, Wendl uses Farnsworth’s correspondence, memoirs and photographs to reconstruct her voice and restore her place in architectural history.
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