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When Building a School Becomes Its Own Education
March 9th, 2023Insights
An active jobsite is the ultimate classroom. That’s why The Bear Creek School brought on Abbott Construction to teach a two-week intensive course to students interested in the AEC industry. At the time, Abbott was building their new upper school campus and performing arts center—a perfect case study to immerse kids in the world of construction.
read more >Construction Supply Chain Update – March 2023
March 6th, 2023Insights
The supply chain conversation continues! As global events, rail transportation, and other factors impact the availability of materials, our STOBG experts are monitoring these market variables and communicating with trade partners—and one another—to respond to supply chain challenges. Read more in our Supply Chain Market Update.
read more >World-Class Energy Research: Penn’s Vagelos Laboratory for Energy Science and Technology
February 27th, 2023Insights
The Vagelos Institute for Energy Science and Technology was established at the University of Pennsylvania in 2016 to create one of the nation’s top energy research and technology centers. Since its inception, the institute has been involved in a number of critical and cutting-edge studies. And now within the next three years, the institute’s researchers will have a new state-of-the-art facility where they will continue their important work.
read more >Head of the Class: Volusia County Beachside Elementary
February 23rd, 2023Insights
It’s a retelling of “The Tale of Two Cities,” only this time with two schools and one goal in mind: to merge two buildings in the east-central part of Florida into one state-of-the-art elementary school. The Volusia County School District selected Ajax Building Company to consolidate the two primary schools and transform them into a 95,000sf structure, which will house approximately 750 student stations on the 11.9-acre site.
read more >Passive House & the GC: A Question of ROI and Builder Education
February 21st, 2023Insights
As the technologies and advancements in construction have evolved to further promote efficiency, one standard has become increasingly popular in the United States: the Passive House Standard.
read more >A More Enlightened Way of Working: Dropbox Studios in Dublin
February 10th, 2023Insights
What is the workplace of the future? For Dropbox, the answer lies in their innovative “Virtual First” approach—where remote work is the primary experience, and “Dropbox Studios” are the central gathering spots for collaboration.
read more >Reworking Workspace: Q&A with Architect Kara Eberle-Lott, AIA
February 6th, 2023Insights
The pandemic changed everything we thought we knew about the role and function of the office. Here workplace designer Kara Eberle-Lott, associate principal at Cushing Terrell, shares what she is seeing from her workplace clients and where office design may be headed next. Abbott Construction recently worked with Eberle-Lott and her team to build Cushing Terrell’s own new workplace in Seattle.
read more >Cross Laminated Timber: What, Who & Why
January 31st, 2023Insights
Cross laminated timber, or CLT, traces its origins to advances in wood processing and fabrication about 30 years ago in Austria, Germany, and Switzerland. Ten years later, the publication of Holzmassivbauweise (“solid wood construction”) provided the AEC industry with national guidelines for use of CLT in multistory buildings.
read more >Meet Sunandita Das, Founder & President of Urbane Luxury Services
January 27th, 2023Insights
Meet Sunandita Das, Founder & President of Urbane Luxury Services.
read more >SCHRÖDINGER BOSTON: A Case Study in Sustainability Planning in Action
January 23rd, 2023Insights
In late 2021, Schrödinger, a company whose physics-based computational platform is transforming the way therapeutics and materials are discovered, retained the Structure Tone Boston team as a construction management partner to help build their Cambridge, MA office. With its Kendall Square location and spectacular views of Boston and the Charles River, we knew the space would be special. But as the team began focusing on the project’s lofty sustainability goals, the possibilities of piloting even better building practices became all the more exciting.
read more >We Built This City: The Rebirth of Stamford
January 9th, 2023Insights
So says the opening line of a Stamford Advocate article from September 2022. As you travel through the downtown of Connecticut’s second-largest city, you have to agree. Cranes and gleaming skyscrapers dot the skyline. Foodies dine outside at every corner. Charming string lights line pocket parks. People are walking their dogs and riding bikes. There is an upbeat, place-to-be kind of vibe.
read more >A Reframed College Experience: Q&A with Andrew Christ
January 5th, 2023Insights
As an engineer and NJIT alum himself, Andrew Christ understands what it takes to “walk the talk” as a modern polytechnic university. Here, Andrew shares some lessons learned from the pandemic and his perspective on what’s next for higher education campus development.
read more >At Home Décor Superstore HQ
December 27th, 2022Insights
Structure Tone Southwest is working on a home for At Home—At Home Décor Superstore’s new corporate headquarters. Located in Billingsley Company’s Cypress Waters development, the new four-story, tilt-up office building will include a 78,000sf design center with a mock store, photo and video studios, training rooms, collaboration and coworking spaces, and a coffee bar. The HQ is scheduled to be completed in 2023.
read more >DNB at Hudson Yards: Using Workplace Technology to Support Design & Construction
December 23rd, 2022Insights
Norway’s largest financial services group, DNB, sought to create a dynamic workplace that prioritizes employees, represents the company’s culture and brand, and supports collaboration. Teaming with Turner & Townsend and architect M Moser Associates, Structure Tone built DNB a 20,000sf space at Hudson Yards that integrates company history with advanced technology in a comfortable, engaging environment that offers stunning views of New York City and the Hudson River.
read more >From East to West: The Shifting Law Firm Workplace
December 20th, 2022Insights
As design trends come and go, law firms have historically stuck to a more traditional workplace aesthetic that is, in many cases, rooted in more than a century of legacy. However, with unprecedented challenges and shifts in workplace dynamics in the last several years, some trends are emerging.
read more >The Best Possible Care: St. Luke’s Boise Medical Center
December 19th, 2022Insights
The multi-phase build of St. Luke’s Boise Medical Center in Idaho includes a variety of new and renovated facilities at the St. Luke’s Health System’s flagship campus. Approved by the City of Boise in 2015, the St. Luke’s Boise Master Plan started with a new Children’s Pavilion to support St. Luke’s Children’s Hospital, the only children’s hospital in the state. The next phase of the master plan, led by Layton, included a new parking garage, a new shipping and receiving building designed and constructed to reduce the impact on surrounding neighbors, and a central utility plant that significantly improved the medical center’s operations.
read more >Cost Benchmarking – Market Update Survey – Q4 2022
December 14th, 2022Insights
As your trusted construction partner, STOBG continues to closely follow and monitor cost and construction trends as they develop and respond to political, economic, and environmental pressures, both locally and globally.
read more >Construction Supply Chain Update – December 2022
December 6th, 2022Insights
The supply chain has experienced many changes throughout 2022. Still, our team is confident in building upon the economies of scale and synergistic relationships in 2023.
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