Parking Structure Design & Construction Without Surprises
Value is important when you invest money in anything, but it’s especially important in design and construction. In most cases, owners do not realize the value from their projects.
The Business Case for LEAN Construction… There is a better way!
How do you increase speed to market and/ or improve the return on investment of your capital projects? The Lean Construction Institute sponsored two separate research studies, conducted by Dodge Data & Analytics and the University of Minnesota, to explore how and why projects excel. Empirical evidence now shows that projects
Tekla Case Study: Clark Pacific Improves Efficiency, Productivity and Quality
For more than 50 years, Clark Pacific has helped shape the vibrant urban landscape of the West Coast. The award-winning design-build manufacturer of architectural and structural precast concrete has completed over 2,500 large structural projects spanning high-profile commercial, residential, parking structures and stadiums, including the new 49ers stadium in Santa
‘Big Room’ Collaboration – Integrated Project Delivery Cuts Schedule Down by 30%
Integrated Project Delivery (IPD) is gaining attention and popularity by encouraging in-depth team collaboration, which leads to fast delivery, ease of budgeting, and high-quality design and construction. This approach was used by an 11-member team that entered into an IPD Agreement with a stated goal of delivering the Sutter Medical
Student Enrollment Increases Demand for Housing
Even as the first of the millennial generation transforms the modern office, their younger siblings are attending college as never before. Fall college enrollment in the United States touched seven successive new highs from 2003 through 2010, according to the U.S. Department of Education. While growth is expected to slow
Student Housing Case Study: Stanford University Comstock Housing
The culture of innovation indelibly linked to the San Francisco Bay Area does not stop with information technology. The region’s building contractors, architects and engineers routinely challenge competitors with cutting-edge software, novel collaboration techniques and new project-delivery processes. The collective goal is to create new and better ways to build
Trends in Structured Parking
Everywhere you go across metropolitan America, the automobile is ubiquitous. In suburbia, half of the developed land is devoted to car parking. In dense cities like San Francisco, streets consume 25 percent of the city’s land area – more than all of its parks. In 2007, author and architecture professor
Prefabrication—Integrating Systems Boosts Efficiency
Below is an excerpt of an article originally published in its entirety in the summer 2015 issue of Ascent Magazine, written by Craig A. Shutt. “Designers find integrating materials—masonry, insulation, windows, electrical, plumbing, and more—into precast concrete panels early in the process results in efficiency and economy.” Designers long have integrated stone