Critical Path

Subscribe

ENR-published data show 2013 average wage for merit-shop laborers ranges from $13.61 to $16.84 per hour, depending on the region.

Respondents to a survey on tall-building research priorities rank fire and life-safety studies at the top. I think that's hogwash.

At the Beavers 59th Annual Awards dinner in Los Angeles on Jan. 17, I received the group’s award for service to the construction industry. It felt like receiving an Oscar to be called to the podium in front of a record crowd of almost 2,200 industry professionals and handed a heavy golden statue of a beaver posed in front of a tall, curving dam. I would like to share with you some excerpts from my acceptance remarks.

Planners behind a new elevated urban park in D.C. hope that their new project serves to bring communities long divided by the Anacostia River together and spur econonic development.

It is possible for any building to be net zero, if enough photovoltaics are deployed. It’s just not economical to purchase the number of panels required for traditional buildings. For the SMUD operations center, the design team kept its eye on creating an energy miser, to minimize the investment in PV.

In 2011, when I was reporting the Jeff Baker Award of Excellence story, I heard—off the record—about another net-zero-annual-energy-use (NZE) building project just entering the design stage that had been influenced by the performance-based design-build NZE Research Support Facility (RSF) at the National Renewable Energy Lab (NREL). Baker was the visionary behind that building.

U.S. Green Buidling Council releases "dynamic" program to measure building performance and give designers more flexibility in creating more energy efficient buildings.

Senator Boxer says negotiations are moving "too slowly," but House side has a different view.

Architect Tadao Ando hasn’t changed much in 11 years. And he is quite proud of that. He still does not speak English, or at least that’s what he says, and he still brags about it. And he is still uncompromising. Ando was in New York City this week for a media briefing on one of his commissions—two

Ironworkers erect first factory-assembled living units for what might turn out to be the world's tallest modular building.