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MAKERS AT WORK: Penn State’s James Building
January 8th, 2021Insights
As Pennsylvania’s largest university, Penn State is a natural incubator for smart, creative potential entrepreneurs. In 2015, the university launched Invent Penn State to further nurture and harness that creativity through accelerator programs, coworking space, funding, networking, and other guidance.
read more >Pushing Boundaries with UNT Health Science Center
January 8th, 2021Insights
The University of North Texas (UNT) Health Science Center is about to launch a research study that could transform the way Alzheimer’s disease is diagnosed—but before the research team could change the face of medicine, the school had to make a few changes of their own.
read more >Living and Learning at Vanderbilt University
January 7th, 2021Insights
It was Layton Construction’s version of the Big Bang—the implosion of one of Vanderbilt’s four Carmichael Towers in July 2019, an important milestone in the school’s Residential Colleges and West End Neighborhood Improvement project. Since then, Layton has made significant progress in moving these campus additions along as part of the company’s largest contract value solo project at the date of signing.
read more >STOBG Cares: Supporting Students
January 7th, 2021Insights
For decades, STO Building Group companies have supported dozens of students through a robust internship program where students can gain valuable hands-on experience working with experts in different departments across the organization. When COVID-19 put the world on hold, many universities shut down unexpectedly, and many companies suspended their internship programs.
read more >When the Student Becomes the Teacher
January 6th, 2021Insights
While the construction industry has been notoriously slow to embrace change, the advent of construction technology, new legislation, and increasingly global project teams have highlighted the importance of education. Critically examining existing methodologies and looking for ways to advance do not always have to take place in a classroom—but a willingness to learn is integral in transforming the industry for the better.
read more >The Austin Treatment: Allergan’s Customer Experience Hub
January 6th, 2021Insights
Within the last few years, Austin, Texas has emerged as one of the US’s hottest tech towns, drawing in big firms and key talent due to its favorable market, arts and culture, and quality-of-life perks. Life sciences and healthcare organizations are following suit, including pharmaceutical company Allergan, which recently joined global firm AbbVie.
read more >WILLIS TOWERS WATSON: Built to Flex
December 15th, 2020Insights
After spending 45 years in the Centre Square complex, Willis Towers Watson, a global advisory, broking, and solutions firm, decided to move just a few blocks away to another one of Philly’s premier office buildings: 1735 Market Street. With two other offices located across the greater Philadelphia area, the relocation provided the company with an opportunity to modernize while maintaining their presence in the city’s central business district.
read more >THE PEOPLE PARADIGM: Forcepoint’s Cyber Experience Center
December 15th, 2020Insights
When most people think of cybersecurity, they think of dark, shadowy forces and firewalls—not people. Cybersecurity firm Forcepoint is disrupting that preconception, both in their behavior-based approach to protecting data and the building they created to showcase it.
read more >Reoccupying Your Workplace
December 15th, 2020Insights
This is an article about safety. You probably assume it’s about PPE, or fall protection, or confined spaces. Nope, not this safety article. This article is about behavioral changes and how STO’s Safety 360⁰ philosophy got us back to work amid a pandemic. But more than that, it’s about how Safety 360⁰ is going to get you back to the office, too.
read more >FSU’s EOAS BUILDING: Where Climate Collides
December 15th, 2020Insights
Home to one of the top planetary science programs in the United States, Florida State University’s earth, ocean, and atmospheric science (EOAS) department performs cutting-edge research that helps communities around the country prepare for and respond to natural disasters. But before last year, these intertwined disciplines were scattered across eight buildings on FSU’s campus.
read more >Tech in Commercial Real Estate: Q&A with Jon Schultz
December 8th, 2020Insights
In an age where landlords are more like hoteliers, how can commercial real estate technology enhance the tenant experience? How is the pandemic shaping that experience? Real estate expert and early-stage seed investor in the CRE tech space, Jon Schultz, has spent the last 30 years of his career incorporating technology into his real estate assets, as well as his personal life.
read more >POWER PARTNERS: CyrusOne’s Dublin Campus
December 3rd, 2020Insights
With now over 50 data centres across the globe, CyrusOne knows what it takes to design, build, and operate mission-critical facilities. They frame their philosophy around three main principles: lowering capital and operating expenses for their clients, reducing risk through redundancy, and building scalable facilities that allow clients room to grow.
read more >IONA FOREVER: Iona College’s Capital Improvement Program
December 3rd, 2020Insights
In 2015, Iona College launched its largest capital campaign in the college’s 80-year history. Known as “Iona Forever,” the effort is helping the college create a modern learning environment that fosters innovation and collaboration.
read more >COVID AND THE CAMPUS: An insider perspective
December 3rd, 2020Insights
When students don’t return to campus, what happens to the buildings? Here facilities executives from three higher education institutions shed light on how COVID-19 has affected the physical campus and their predictions on what’s to come.
read more >826 Valencia
December 3rd, 2020Insights
The mission is simple: To support overburdened teachers and connect caring adults with underserved students who need help developing their writing skills. Since 826 Valencia was formed in 2002, that mission has evolved into creating fun, quirky-themed, brick-and-mortar tutoring, and writing centers across the United States, which has inspired similar education centers around the world.
read more >Planning the Perfect Space with Zola
December 1st, 2020Insights
After spending their early years in a 15,000sf space at 150 Broadway, wedding start-up Zola knew it was only a matter of time until their modest NYC digs could no longer accommodate their expanding team.
read more >BUILDING HEALTH: Why it’s become more important than ever
November 17th, 2020Insights
In the 1970s, as we started to tighten building envelopes in response to energy efficiency demands, tenants started to report nonspecific symptoms—headaches, dizziness, nausea, eye, nose, or throat irritation, allergies, increased asthma attacks, and even personality changes. The media called it “office illness.” In 1986, the World Health Organization (WHO) started using the term “sick building syndrome.”
read more >GOING FIRST: Pausing Construction in Boston and San Francisco
October 8th, 2020Insights
As COVID-19 cases in the US continued to climb earlier this year, construction firms in hot spots like New York City knew it was only a matter of time before jobsites were shut down.
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