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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.
read more >The Supply Chain Ripple Effect: Q&A with a Purchasing Expert
October 5th, 2020Insights
COVID-19 impacted all facets of construction. But perhaps the first area to feel the effects was the supply chain and the preconstruction work associated with it. Here David Hamilton, vice president of purchasing at Structure Tone, explains this ripple effect and the strategies firms can consider for managing it during a crisis.
read more >Creativity During Crisis
September 25th, 2020Insights
In our decades of doing business, we thought we’d seen just about everything—from natural disasters to recessions, to terrorist attacks. But COVID-19 has been like nothing we’ve seen before. Innovation has been critical to helping us, our clients, and our industry find ways to move forward.
read more >STOBG CARES: Acts of Kindness During Crisis
September 23rd, 2020Insights
With 24-hour news coverage, social media at our fingertips, and circumstances changing by the hour, it’s easy to get wrapped up in the “bad” of the COVID-19 pandemic. But moments of crisis also bring opportunities to show up for the communities we live and build in. Here are a few of the ways the offices across STOBG came together to spread hope and give back to their communities.
read more >The Post COVID Workplace: What’s next for office design?
September 22nd, 2020Insights
In just a few months, COVID-19 has completely transformed the way industries around the globe operate. As society continues to adapt to these unprecedented circumstances, so must our workplaces. So, what does the post-pandemic commercial office look like? STOBG launched a design impact taskforce to assess what real estate, design, and construction experts are saying. Here are some of their findings.
read more >PLANNING MAKES PERFECT: Stanley Switlik Elementary School, Marathon, FL
September 22nd, 2020Insights
Construction on an active site is complicated for any project. But when the project is an elementary school, the stakes are even higher. Phasing and scheduling must be organized around the daily schedule of school, around the constant motion of children, and around the environment, students and staff need to succeed.
read more >First Responders: Healthcare Construction in a Pandemic
September 22nd, 2020Insights
COVID-19 upended the way we all live and work. But nothing compares to the impact it has had on the healthcare sector. Not only were healthcare workers on the front lines sacrificing their health to battle the virus, but healthcare facilities and processes had to be entirely reconfigured to care for patients and protect against further infection.
read more >Managing the New, Virtual Jobsite
September 16th, 2020Insights
While BIM and other tools have gradually helped bring virtual collaboration into construction, much of the process has continued to be done in person. But COVID-19 changed everything. With limitations on who can be on-site, virtual collaboration has become critical to keeping projects moving forward.
read more >SHARING AND CARING: Govan Brown’s Return-to-Work Strategy
September 14th, 2020Insights
As COVID-19 shifted what a “workplace” should look like, organizations across the globe have mobilized to pull together new protocols and practices for their workspaces as they consider when and how to bring back staff. In April, the Govan Brown team began discussing this very challenge with clients, many of whom really weren’t sure how to approach their return.
read more >TEAMWORK AT ITS BEST: Communication and Collaboration on the Job
September 4th, 2020Insights
As cities across the globe implemented stay-at-home orders and limited public activities, the construction industry (among many others) was contending with a slew of unknowns. Do we need to shut down our jobsites? Where do we find PPE? How do we practice social distancing in the confines of our sites?
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