In the quest to address economic uncertainty, reduce overhead, and improve the bottom line, business leaders are turning their attention to one of the biggest costs of business: leased office space. “Studies have shown employee workspace size decreasing – middle manager office space, for example has shrunk from an average of 151 square feet in 1994 to 121 square feet in 2007, a decline of nearly twenty percent.” This reduction has been implemented as businesses relocate and expand or contract, typically on a cycle linked to the expiration of leases and the associated opportunities to create more efficient office space in new locations. >>>
St. Ann's Home and School posed an interesting construction challenge: a fixed budget, a firm deadline, a relatively complex building site – and multiple functional needs. Learn how Integrated Project Delivery, a transparent team approach involving client, architect and builder in every phase was employed in this project. >>>
Located in rugged and uninterrupted terrain, West Basin House, designed by Signer Harris Architects with WoodMetalConcrete Architecture, is nestled into 125 acres of the Galisteo Basin Preserve, a low-impact and resource-efficient community 15 miles southwest of Santa Fe, NM. The Preserve comprises 12,800 acres of delicate Upper Sonoran grasslands bound at a distance by mountains and foothills of the Colorado Rockies. Conventional development schemes threatened to dot these 20-square-miles with widely dispersed "ranchettes”, endangering ecology, eliminating open space and disrupting wildlife habitat. Instead, Commonweal Conservancy, a non-profit conservation-based developer, earmarked fewer than 800 acres for development, conserving the remaining 12,000 as publicly accessible open space. >>>