Ryan Smith recycles. He also designs.
The Great Falls High School graduate is combining both those passions — the environment and architecture — and venturing into entrepreneurship.
Smith’s last day at L’Heureux Page Werner Architects Engineers was Friday. After 7 1/2 years with the firm, he’s decided to open his own business, RK3 Architecture.
“It’s always been a [...]

Al Gore, the environmental activist stung by criticism over his home’s energy efficiency, says renovations are nearly complete to make it a model “green” home.
“This plan has been in the works for a long time,” the former vice president said Friday. “The only thing that has changed is that we’re more public about it because [...]

Cannon Moss Brygger & Associates’ design for the Sioux City Community School District’s Irving Elementary School was awarded the 2007 American School & University Magazine’s Educational Interiors Showcase’s Silver Citation . . . a premier competition honoring education interior design excellence.
This elementary school building, designed around a community concept, focuses on educational pods that are [...]

DePaul University plans to break ground this morning for the construction of a $37.5 million science building.
The 129,000-square-foot, four-story building will house the chemistry and environmental science departments.
Plans for the building include 23 research labs and eight teaching labs, along with two greenhouses on the roof of the environmentally efficient structure.

San Fernando City, La Union (5 June) — Today, there are a lot of indicators showing that the economy is on the verge of the much-vaunted takeoff.
First is the building construction and property market which is actually booming with a lot of interest in this sector especially in prime development areas, compared to almost zero [...]

For eight communities in the Whitney Ranch residential development in Rocklin, Calif., outside Sacramento, an average of 1.9 homes have sold each month since 2006. A ninth community, Grupe Homes’ Carsten Crossings, stands out with more than twice as many sales, or an average of 4.6 homes sold per month over the same time period.
Four [...]

Research from global environmental consultancy, WSP Environmental, shows that companies hoping to cut their carbon emissions should encourage home-working, but only in summer when home heating is off – over the year as a whole, it’s more carbon efficient at present to work from an office rather than at home.
WSP Environmental’s research shows that a [...]

Could it be that we’re entering a golden age in concert hall design?
The very idea may sound a little crazy, given how adamantly some people insist that the audience for classical music is slowly dying off.
To those skeptics the current explosion of new concert spaces may seem nothing but a last-ditch attempt to attract younger [...]

This report will look at the cyclical categories of non-residential building construction in Canada — commercial and industrial work. Institutional construction is more a trend phenomenon, driven by demographic factors and dependent on government financing. Engineering/civil construction can fluctuate dramatically as a result of individual large projects. There will also be comments on some key [...]

The Canadian construction industry is doing a good job of coping with the climate change phenomenon, two spokepeople for the Canadian Construction Association said last week.
And the environmental concerns sparked by climate change mean greater opportunities for the industry, they said.
Obviously upbeat and optimistic, CCA president Mike Atkinson and staff member Jeff Morrison said the [...]

San Fernando City, La Union (5 June) — Today, there are a lot of indicators showing that the economy is on the verge of the much-vaunted takeoff.
First is the building construction and property market which is actually booming with a lot of interest in this sector especially in prime development areas, compared to almost zero [...]

The long wait for the construction of the 250-megawatt power project at Bujagali is finally over. The government on Friday signed final documents instructing Bujagali Energy Ltd (BEL), the sponsors of the project and Salini Constructors, to start the implementation works “on or before June 1, 2007.”
“The relevant conditions have been fulfilled, hence the signing [...]