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A Tech Revolution: Reimagining the Museum of the Dog
June 18th, 2024Insights
Technology has transformed the way the world consumes media—and art is no exception. Today, museums around the globe have embraced technology as a means of enhancing the visitor’s experience. So, when the American Kennel Club (AKC) decided it was time to return the Museum of the Dog (MOD) to its New York City roots, they saw the move as the perfect opportunity to bring the museum into the 21st century.
read more >AI and the Future-Proof Data Center
May 14th, 2024Insights
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is rapidly transforming every industry and will stretch across all aspects of human life. Data centers are no exception. As AI applications continue to rapidly evolve, data centers need to adapt and evolve their design, specifically their electrical and mechanical infrastructure to accommodate these demanding workloads. There are key considerations for building future-proof data centers as AI continues to develop, such as these.
read more >All In: Philadelphia Law Firms Invest in The Workplace
March 19th, 2024Insights
While stories of the shrinking office still make headlines, two of Philadelphia’s most reputable law firms are doubling down on the physical workplace—but now with a new outlook on what role the office plays in the firm’s success.
read more >MWDBE SPOTLIGHT: Meet Stephen Callender and Natasha Callender-Wilson
March 14th, 2024Insights
Meet Bass Installation, a glazing company that supplies and installs curtain wall, window wall, windows, and entrance systems. Hear from President Stephen Callender and Vice President Natasha Callender-Wilson about their journey, achievements, and partnership with Govan Brown.
read more >Reinventing History: Adaptive Reuse in Landmarked Buildings
February 22nd, 2024Insights
Restoring a historic building can present a unique set of challenges. Design requirements, existing conditions, and entitlements can all complicate the process. An experienced team is key to the success of the project. Pavarini McGovern and our sister companies in the STO Building Group have been fortunate to work on several historic NYC buildings, including Lever House, MetLife Building, 100 Vandam, the Barbizon Hotel, and the Irish Arts Center, to name only a few.
read more >STOBG Cares: The Presidio Bay Foundation & Scholars Program
February 15th, 2024Insights
Giving back is a full-time passion for the STO Building Group network of companies. One of the ways BCCI Construction has fostered its relationship with the San Francisco community is by partnering with a local foundation that helps students discover their own passions in the real estate and AEC industries.
read more >A New View of London: Structure Tone’s New Home
February 14th, 2024Insights
After eight years, Structure Tone London’s office no longer aligned with the way their team works. With a maturing lease and a full slate of new projects to work on, the London team used their workplace expertise to find a new, even more productive, inspiring, and collaborative home.
read more >Food & Beverage Manufacturing Booming in Texas
February 6th, 2024Insights
Inherently complex, light manufacturing project —especially in the food and beverage sector often involve highly specialized systems that demand the coordination of skilled tradespeople in power, cooling, process piping, ammonia-based refrigeration, and low-voltage controls.
read more >Building Together, Breaking Barriers: The Enterprise Center
January 23rd, 2024Insights
Changing history begins with the courage to challenge the status quo and embrace visionary ideas. In partnership with LF Driscoll, The Enterprise Center’s new Community Resource Hub was fueled by the belief that everyone should have the opportunity to build wealth.
read more >Saving Trees and Bridging Gaps at WSDOT’s Northwest Regional Headquarters
December 11th, 2023Insights
At face value, Abbott Construction’s design-build project for the Washington State Department of Transportation (WSDOT) involved renovating its Northwest Regional Headquarters in Shoreline, WA by reorganizing and updating an occupied, six-story, 162,000sf building from the 1970s to house over 600 WSDOT and Department of Ecology (WSDOE) employees. But that was just the beginning. The project was also an invigorating exercise in creativity to save a grove of historic trees, in collaboration to unite differing stakeholder needs, and in excellence to raise the bar on safety and improve the building’s efficiency.
read more >University of Texas at Austin: Building To A Higher Educational Standard
December 5th, 2023Insights
“What starts here changes the world.” That’s the motto of the University of Texas, where Structure Tone Southwest has been working to help the university create and restore campus spaces that last well into the future.
read more >A Crowning Achievement: Canada’s GCworkplace Initiative
November 30th, 2023Insights
Similar to ongoing trends within the private sector to reinvent the modern workplace, the Government of Canada has been re-envisioning how their employees work. Across many of its departments, this workplace modernization, dubbed GCworkplace, is being embarked upon in the hopes that improvements to the workplace will lead to environments that foster innovation, collaboration, and productivity. Out with the cubicles that have come to represent a one-size-fits-all, siloed work environment, and in with a space that is focused on variety, flexibility, and accessibility.
read more >Hofstra University Center for Science & Innovation
November 20th, 2023Insights
Structure Tone New York recently completed construction on Hofstra University’s Center for Science & Innovation, a 75,000sf facility shared by the Hofstra Northwell School of Nursing and Physician Assistant Studies and parts of the Fred DeMatteis School of Engineering and Applied Science, located in Hempstead, NY. With both schools expanding, there was a need to meet demands for growing numbers of science, engineering, and nursing students.
read more >Under Construction: The New Wells Fargo Center
November 8th, 2023Insights
Home of the Philadelphia Flyers, Philadelphia 76ers, and Philadelphia Wings, the new and improved Wells Fargo Center is a top 10 venue in the US for sports, concerts, and other attractions. And for the past several years, it’s also been a home for Structure Tone Philadelphia, who are proudly maintaining the successful relationship with Comcast Spectacor, begun 30 years ago by LF Driscoll.
read more >A Foundation of Fairness
October 11th, 2023Insights
Justice requires physical space, and courthouses provide that space as a beacon of fairness and impartiality for all communities. With this concept in mind, Santa Rosa County, Florida selected Ajax Building Company to capture this ideology in a physical and functional symbol of equal access to justice for all.
read more >A View from the Top in Brooklyn
October 5th, 2023Insights
Pavarini McGovern recently topped out construction on 11 Ocean Parkway, a groundup, mixed-use residential development in Brooklyn.
read more >NYC’s Salvadori Center: Laying The Foundation for The Future
October 2nd, 2023Insights
An industry’s success is built on its ability to engage future generations. As design and construction continues to advance and evolve at a faster and faster pace, this engagement becomes more important than ever. In order to stay ahead of this ever-expanding curve, STO Building Group is working with organizations like the Salvadori Center to inspire and educate the next generation of builders.
read more >Occupying a Piece of History: Fiserv’s Irish HQ
September 18th, 2023Insights
Global fintech and payments firm, Fiserv, leased just under 70,000sf in Ten Hanover Quay—a historically significant and protected structure located in Dublin’s Docklands. Over the last year, the innovation focused company partnered with their trusted construction partner, Structure Tone Dublin, to transform the recently renovated building into Fiserv’s Irish headquarters.
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