The automotive sector moves at a very rapid pace, so engineering designs for new facilities need to come quickly to meet manufacturers’ milestones for their production goals. This often results in utilizing the faster-to-market design/build project delivery method.
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Key design strategies help make senior living facilities feel more like home
Creating a space that doesn’t just feel like home, but is home to residents, is a challenge design teams face on every senior living project – largely because such facilities require medical equipment reminiscent of a hospital.
Spouts, chutes, and transitions: Gravity flow design is critical for efficient operation of many dry bulk processing facilities
Many commodities do not lend themselves to transfer by pumps or blowers. For these types of dry bulk solids, gravity flow is the primary method of material transfer.
7 ways to minimize risk when investing capital in an industrial facility
The industrial and manufacturing business environment is in a constant state of change. Business leaders must react to new technologies, buyer behavior, budget cuts, competitors, and countless other influencers.
Voice-first technology: The future of user interface for controlling building systems
Companies spend significant amounts of R&D money on improving the usability of their products, and UX is one important focus of that effort.
Design-assist MEP engineering can help reduce project risk, cost, and schedule
Risk reduction, cost control, and time savings are paramount for owners facing large, complex, or fast-track design-build construction projects. In such situations, engaging the MEP consultant through a design-assist delivery model can be a particularly effective way to achieve these goals.
3-D and VR walkthroughs: Experiencing how a design works is key for processes
While virtual reality and 3-D walkthroughs show how architects have designed spaces to look, walkthroughs of process-based facilities show how engineers have designed spaces to work.
Curing runny noses and climate change
Energy efficiency is about more than simple payback and higher lease rates … each measure we implement will make the climate a little bit better in the future.
Early participation and communication are key to IPD success
Integrated project delivery (IPD) can be an effective approach that guides the actions of participants for the betterment of the whole as opposed to individual parties.
MedPharm Iowa: Teamwork + Expertise = Completion in 1 Year
Project manager, Luke Streit, explains how setting a complex renovation project from design to operation in one year is no simple task.