Energy codes are increasingly becoming more rigorous, leading the building envelope, once seen as a collection of separate and individual components to be looked at as integrated enclosure design. As such, it’s becoming one of the most technically demanding aspects of design, with teams balancing thermal performance, air leakage, moisture management, embodied carbon, constructability, cost and aesthetics. While codes may take different approaches, the objective is the same: evaluating the building enclosure as a complete system with a greater emphasis on thermal bridging and whole-wall performance.
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Location: New Orleans, LA
Products: ALUCOBOND (MCM)
General Contractor: Woodward Design Build
Architect: Hanbury
Tulane University’s residence hall expansion project spanned five buildings across two phases, aimed to revitalize the school’s residential living for students. Phase II built on the success of Phase I, introducing Fogelman Hall and Bayou Hall to complete the living-learning community. The two new student residential buildings are located next to each other and include multifunctional spaces, lounges and staff areas. For this project, MillerClapperton fabricated 610 square feet of Metal Composite Material (MCM) panels.
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Like many of you, I’ve been following the data center market, and lately I’ve had a hard time figuring out whether things are slowing down or speeding up.
Projects are being delayed by power availability, permitting, financing, and community resistance. Some sit for months. Some may never get built.
That alone makes planning difficult.
Read the rest in Conversations with Zane by clicking the link below.
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A new report from Suffolk, the MIT Center for Real Estate and the MIT Media Lab looks at how AI is reshaping construction performance and productivity. The “Construction in the Age of AI” report looks at where AI can deliver the most meaningful gains in processes, scheduling and project feasibility, identifying six areas where six areas where it can make a measurable difference: design automation, offsite manufacturing, permitting, scheduling, skilled labor and subcontracting, and supply chain and procurement.
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Recommendation: Max Bond: The Life and Work of the People’s Architect
By: Brian D. Goldstein
The late designer, James Max Bond, Jr., is remembered as the “dean of African American architects.” Some of his best known project include the Studio Museum in Harlem, Atlanta’s Martin Luther King, Jr. Center for Nonviolent Social Change, the Harvard club of New York, and Harlem’s Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. This new book is a biography of the preeminent postwar architect who championed freedom through architecture, transforming Black history and modernism.
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