A New Era in Sustainable Construction

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Mass timber: challenges + best practices  By: Derek Smuin Mass timber construction continues to grow across the United States as an alternative to steel. Visually stunning and sustainable, this method presents a ton of benefits for both contractors and owners. For instance, its lighter weight makes for smaller, less expensive foundations and allows for a faster installation with a smaller workforce. Not to mention its environmental benefits, requiring less energy to produce, transport and even capture carbon long into its lifespan. Although mass timber can serve the same purpose as steel, the approach to planning and construction is entirely different. … Read more

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Construction Complete on Historic Industrial Project in Toronto

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Construction is complete on The Birmingham, an historic Campbell Soup factory site redeveloped as a three-building facility to accommodate light industrial and E-commerce uses in the South Etobicoke district near downtown Toronto, Canada. Ware Malcomb provided architecture design services for the 398,000-square-foot project. General contracting services were provided by Leesswood Construction. Owned by QuadReal Property Group, the three new buildings range from 157,710 to approximately 120,000 square feet, each with 36-foot clear heights. The buildings feature flexible floorplans that can accommodate a variety of uses, while outdoor spaces are carefully configured to facilitate efficient logistics use. The site provides a … Read more

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Utah Clean Energy Unveils Climate Innovation Center as Epicenter of Local Climate Action

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Utah Clean Energy and the community at large recently celebrated the grand opening of the Climate Innovation Center, a high-performance building and a hub for climate action. The facility raises the bar for buildings in Utah and beyond, highlighting the opportunity to modernize homes and buildings to cut emissions and combat climate change. Located in the heart of downtown Salt Lake City, the Climate Innovation Center breathes new life into a once dilapidated 50-year-old building. The center showcases the potential of what homes and buildings can be — spaces that are not only comfortable and inviting, but also produce zero … Read more

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Turner Construction Makes Progress in Reducing Carbon Footprint of Operations

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Turner Construction Company is actively testing new to-market equipment and innovative processes to drive transformational change in construction operations and achieve commitments to reduce its environmental footprint. As part of its commitment to achieving Net Zero Emissions by 2040 across all reporting scopes, the company has taken significant steps, including implementing a pilot on the use of a wide range of low-emission equipment on a data center project, piloting the use of electric and hybrid heavy equipment on various projects, moving toward fully electrifying its fleet of vehicles by 2028 and using zero-carbon cement on a project. On the data … Read more

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STRABAG Tapped to Build New Czech Bank Česká Spořitelna Headquarters in Prague

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STRABAG SE’s Czech subsidiary STRABAG a.s. will construct the new headquarters of Česká spořitelna in Prague’s Smíchov district (Czech Republic) in a consortium of which it’s a leading member. The complex, consisting of four buildings with a usable area of 75,000 square meters, will intersect the main boulevard with a public passageway where shops, cafés and a multifunctional auditorium with a capacity of 380 visitors will be located. The auditorium will be complemented on the exterior by an outdoor grandstand for 150 spectators. The complex will not only serve as the new headquarters of the bank, but is also intended … Read more

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