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A new industry study reveals that far too many owners are unfamiliar with, or hesitant to use, off-site construction methods like modularization

Detroit’s 500,000-sq-ft, 18-story Michigan Central Station was recently sold by its longtime owners, the Moroun Family, to Ford Motor Co.

Building owners and their design and construction teams now have a free guide to help them navigate the waters of integrated project delivery.

Nothing except war tears apart the seams of civilization like a natural disaster. 

Launch Pad 39B at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida is one step closer to readiness for NASA’s new Space Launch System (SLS), as J.P. Donovan, Rockledge, Fla., wraps up major construction on the main flame deflector for the pad’s upgraded flame trench.

For small towns along Texas’ Gulf Coast, Hurricane Harvey was a catastrophic wind event that was largely ignored as national media focused on record-breaking flooding in Houston.

The external steelwork diagrid of this 220-meter-tall residential building has allowed its construction on a constrained London site just 13 m above twin metro tunnels.

Cross-laminated timber structures remained intact under explosive loads well beyond their design capacity

Nearly 70,000 elements of the Temperate glasshouse in London’s Kew Gardens were removed, restored and replaced, along with 15,000 panes of glass in a $41-million project to rehabilitate one of the world’s greatest Victorian-era horticultural ironwork buildings.

NY Presbyterian adapts construction of the David H. Koch ambulatory care center to fit a tight space and meet changing medical priorities and technology solutions.