As the construction industry continuously looks for ways to enhance its offerings to companies and clients, its abilities to do more with less and to offer better value by using better technologies will provide real benefit. It’s also rewarding for us drivetrain and energy nerds to see the application of some pretty cool and useful technologies such as biofuels that are morphing from research lab to fuel tank and from start-up enterprise to hyper-clean engine.
在第一次脸红，术语“精益工程”似乎缺乏通常与最新的相关炒作和最伟大的，最优秀的产品兴趣获得的关注建筑公司他们的客户，谁总是想省钱，并在建筑物获得更大的价值。不懈追求如何改善工作往往省建设流程，从大至小的项目，从简单到复杂。事实上，建筑行业是由不断招手的高科技解决方案困扰;在大多数其他主要的工业领域，工厂的生产线，供应链和复杂的“后台”功能已经创建更高的效率和更好的产品。
经过七年规划，设计，建设，J.MAYER H.建筑师 Metropol遮阳伞在西班牙的塞维利亚，是繁荣和希望的文化和文娱活动 - 和惊人的证明文件的塞维利亚人的精神和奉献精神在创造它。这种混合使用，广场恩卡纳西翁盖18000平方米（约193750平方英尺）和成本90000000欧元（约129501000美元）的总重建。在2011年3月完成的Metropol遮阳伞项目，它定义了广场恩卡纳西翁，带来了欢迎生活的重要城市空间（一旦枯萎停车场）的是什么成为塞维利亚的枢纽，包括农贸市场，天文台，考古博物馆，和城市视图长廊。
Denver’s Union Station will cement its standing as an important transportation hub for the entire Denver metropolitan region. Union Station is not only the connection from downtown Denver to a variety of ground transportations, but it is catalyzing downtown Denver’s continued growth as a hip, walkable, diverse regional center. Union Station will serve local and national travelers via everything from pedicabs and shared cars to light rail and Amtrak. Construction is well underway, is on budget, and (just like the buses and trains of its well oiled Regional Transportation District) is on schedule.
The winning competition entry that Foster + Partners provided to the New Mexico Spaceport Authority makes no reference to the innate femininity of the firm’s design for Virgin Galactic’s Terminal and Hangar Facility at Spaceport America in southern New Mexico. My response to this intuitively sensual design, however, was an immediate attraction to the curvaceous feminine symbology of the Terminal building.
在海地地震命中1月12日，现在七个月前，造成超过23万人死亡1.3万人无家可归和600000流离失所。不仅受到地震的直接破坏，但也受到了政治和政府的脆弱性，使得重建困难，建筑学副教授道格·黑克尔和助理玛莎·斯金纳教授克莱姆森学校继续工作，为海地人民提供住房后不久就开始立即面露难色紧急住所灾后创意搜索流离失所者和海地无家可归。他们的努力导致成功使用海运集装箱作为紧急住房 - 的 SEED_Haiti 项目
在2016年计划完成，丹佛国际机场的南候机楼重建计划（DIA）将西班牙的圣地亚哥·卡拉特拉瓦与著名的杰普逊终端通过芬特雷斯建筑师并列的新建筑。卡拉特拉瓦，瓦伦西亚，已设计了四个原则要素：一个新的酒店和会议中心，中转站，市民广场和铁路桥，这都将被物理集成。在他的建筑声明，卡拉特拉瓦致敬的杰普森终端，值得注意的是它的拉伸织物屋顶：“我的在相邻的设计这样一个突出的标志性的结构的目标一直是一边用设计呈现同等质量的一个独立的身份补充它保留原始终端的性质和完整性。“
When Denver’s commercial real estate industry outlines criteria for developing a successful project, it typically starts with whether the site provides any views of Colorado’s Rocky Mountain Front Range to the west of the city. It follows, of course, that these units hold a value premium, as owners will pay more for this look at the mountains, a source of comfort and inspiration and an iconic representation of Colorado’s strong sense of identity.
One of the most important climate change reduction advances in architecture and building in America is unfolding in the foothills of the Front Range outside Denver where the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) is completing a flagship for renewability and energy efficiency. The Research Support Facilities (RSF) in Golden, Colorado, were built and furnished for $67 million, comprise 222,000 square feet of zero-energy building (ZEB), were designed by RNL Design with Stantec, and were built by Colorado’s Haselden Construction. Seeking the U.S. Green Building Council’s (USGBC) LEED Platinum status, NREL is certainly practicing what it preaches: its scientists and technologists are occupying daylit spaces this summer to deliver energy strategies as they work to battle climate change and strive for national energy independence.