Starting a build project can be intimidating, even if you’ve had experience with it before. There are so many factors that go into a successful project. We sat down with two experts in the design ...

The profession of lighting design is a relatively young discipline among the building design and construction fields. Although lighting has certainly been an integral component of the built ...

When designing community spaces, the architectural concept can easily clash with the user's experience. Therefore, engaging the community and future users in the project development and design process ...

There are moments when architects take the design process beyond their practice and engage with potential users as design participants. This expands the design framework and makes the input of future ...

Creating an energy-use model and cost profile early in a project design process—using lightweight tools and resources, such as energy use intensity data and DOE commercial benchmark model data—can ...

Social and economic analyses are complementary to each other and provide critical inputs to project design and appraisal process. Economic analysis helps determine, ex-ante, whether a project ...

Advances in solar panel design have reduced the impact of microcracking on overall performance, according to Mike Perron, ...

In this article, the authors will explore the design-build delivery method under the Texas public procurement statutes. Design-build is a project delivery method in which the public owner hires one ...