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Former Jail Finds New Life
September 8th, 2022Insights
In late 2019, the Madison Street Jail, having sat empty for 10 years, finally saw the light of day. The 8-floor structure, originally designed for isolation, with only discrete, 8in horizontal windows to the outside world, was transformed into 6 floors of open, light-filled, Class A office space. The renovated space is now home to some 900+ workspaces for Maricopa County Officials, including the County Attorney’s Offices.
read more >Actions Speak Loudest
September 6th, 2022Insights
Policies aimed at improvement are important. They declare intentions and provide guiderails and parameters for action. But action is truly where change happens.
read more >The Mass Timber Movement
August 25th, 2022Insights
Buildings, construction, and building materials account for nearly 40% of global carbon emissions. As the world continues the search for sustainable solutions to the collective carbon challenge, the AEC industry has turned back to a traditional building material: wood.
read more >Turning Old into New: Transforming Contaminated Sites into Warehouses
August 25th, 2022Insights
In urban areas like those in New Jersey and New York, many outdated properties remain idle, abandoned, or even condemned. Because there isn’t much fresh land available, industrial developers often look to these unused sites as a potential location for a modern industrial warehouse. That’s where RC Andersen comes in.
read more >REPOSITIONED AND REFRESHED: Dublin’s Founders District
August 12th, 2022Insights
It’s a rarity to find an office environment that brings suburban amenities like parking, outdoor space, and an on-site restaurant together in one complex anywhere near an urban downtown. But that is just what Spear Street Capital has created in the Founders District, just 3 miles from Dublin’s city centre.
read more >A Partnership Approach: IPG MULLENLOWE
August 8th, 2022Insights
Boston’s Seaport area is one of the city’s latest up-and-coming neighborhoods, and companies have been jumping at the chance to secure a spot in one of the area’s many new office towers. One of those companies is MullenLowe, a well-established marketing and communications agency that’s known for its progressive, creative, forward-looking vision. When the agency was interested in relocating their Boston offices to the Seaport, they looked to guidance from their parent company, Interpublic Group (IPG) —who ultimately brought in their long-time partners, including VVA Project & Costs Managers and Structure Tone.
read more >Mission Critical: The Road to SUSTAINABILITY
August 3rd, 2022Insights
Data centers are the heart of the digital infrastructure that all the primary data we consume on a daily basis resides and is processed through. This market is composed of a select number of large technology and colocation companies who have all committed to sustainability and carbon-neutral goals,most as soon as 2030.
read more >REMAKING HISTORY AT IMVAX
July 28th, 2022Insights
In the life sciences sector, companies have very specific needs for their buildings. For starters, they need a location to comfortably manufacture their products, achieve necessary safety standards, maintain a fluid workflow—and the list goes on.
read more >MWDBE SPOTLIGHT: Meet Jewell Antoine-Johnson
July 27th, 2022Insights
Meet Jewell Antoine-Johnson, founder Antoine Johnson LLC. In this MWDBE Construction spotlight, she talks about her career in construction and more.
read more >We are Winners – STOBG Awards
July 26th, 2022Insights
In the fast-paced world of construction, quality counts. We care about what we build and believe our clients should love their spaces. We understand the importance of building together. In the fast-paced world of construction, quality counts—in our projects, in our relationships, and in our ability to take pride in what we do. We care about what we build and believe our clients should love their spaces. Our approach to quality encompasses much more than a program.
read more >It IS Easy Being Green
July 14th, 2022Insights
As one of the largest industries in the world, construction has a direct impact on our environment. It is a pivotal time in history as our industry is now focusing in on addressing this global challenge. It is a crisis that requires innovation. At STO Building Group, we are driven to meet our clients’ needs, which are increasingly including environmental, social, and governance (ESG) goals. One of the tools we use to help clients work toward those goals is Green Badger, a cloud-based software platform designed to streamline and automate green construction compliance—everything from jobsite ESG tracking through LEED certification.
read more >Under construction | Orlando Utilities Commission
July 5th, 2022Insights
Totaling approximately 77,605sf, construction on a new joint use facility for the Orlando Utilities Commission is well underway. Managed by Ajax Building Company, the new operations and maintenance facility will better serve Orlando and parts of both Orange and Osceola counties by creating one central location.
read more >Need a Vacation? Consider These STOBG Project Destinations
June 28th, 2022Insights
Inspiration for your Summer Vacation Travels.
read more >THE POSSIBILITIES OF SMART BUILDINGS
June 24th, 2022Insights
After building an award-winning smart building system together more than two years ago, former project partners Doug Kruser, Structure Tone project manager and mechanical specialist, John Hester, owner and chief consultant at Hester Consulting, and Michael Krall, executive director of smart buildings at JPMorgan Chase, reconnected to reflect on their experience and how the world of smart buildings has advanced since then.
read more >Signify: Unlocking the Extraordinary Potential of Light
June 20th, 2022Insights
Lighting is not just a product or a simple on/off function for illumination—it can support one’s health and well-being, help achieve a unique vision for a space, and do so much more. No one knows that better than Signify, the world leader in lighting. So when the time came to relocate its North American headquarters in New Jersey, the company seized the opportunity to create an experience that would convey this extraordinary potential of light for anyone who visits and uses the space, from its employees to its customers.
read more >LOCAL LAW 154: NYC Building Electrification Explained
June 17th, 2022Insights
Buildings are the largest source of greenhouse gas emissions in New York City. To reduce manmade greenhouse gas emissions, NYC City Council has banned the burning of fossil fuels in any new building or any building undergoing a major renovation, starting in 2024.
read more >The Art of Building Repositioning
June 6th, 2022Insights
It has been a difficult few years for owners of office buildings, especially in cities like New York City. Challenging market conditions during the COVID era, competition from new Class A properties, and changing workplace requirements have all had an adverse impact on commercial real estate. As a result, many of NYC’s Class B office buildings are struggling. Faced with increased vacancies and dwindling rent roles, building owners are faced with a choice: do nothing and hope for the best, or implement a repositioning program to transform their underperforming building into one with a renewed market presence and increased value.
read more >RAISING HISTORY in Times Square | Lifting the Palace Theatre
May 31st, 2022Insights
A new tower is rising at the corner of 47th Street and Seventh Avenue in Manhattan. The most heavily trafficked corner in the Western Hemisphere will soon feature TSX Broadway, a 46-story combination retail, hotel, and performance experience center unlike anything else in Times Square.
read more >WELL Certification: What to Consider When It’s Time to Recertify
May 27th, 2022Insights
In the modern era of sustainable building, human health and well-being continue to be at the forefront. The WELL Building Standard remains the leading tool for upgrading the physical environment of a building through improvements to air, water, light, acoustics, and other factors. Now more than ever, companies are looking to the design and construction industry to help enhance the occupant experience, whether pursuing the WELL Building Standard for the first time or preparing to recertify their space.
read more >THE EVOLUTION OF STO MISSION CRITICAL
May 25th, 2022Insights
1986: THE BEGINNING STO Mission Critical has played a growing, innovating role in this evolution of data-driven technology since the beginning.Our team of experts built their first data center in 1986 scaled at 2MW in a 70,000sf existing building
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