This executive guide by Scott Campanga, IMEG’s Senior Director of Housing, discusses issues of engineering and related services that could offer challenges and opportunities when converting office buildings into residential properties.
New technologies for visualization and reality capture are expanding what the AEC industry can do when assessing a site. While photos and drawings can offer a small glimpse of an overall site, it can be challenging to visualize and understand how all elements relate to one another. This feature introduces new advancements in reality capture that can provide significant benefits to clients and design teams.
The financial success of any warehouse or industrial space requires leveraging every square foot. This executive guide provides a broad overview of a money-making space owners may have overlooked – the roof. It helps owners, designers, and contractors decide if roof-mounted solar photovoltaic could be used to leverage the roof’s square footage to generate passive cashflow.
This executive guide provides a high-level overview of California’s Hospital Seismic Retrofit Program, compliance with which all acute care hospitals must achieve by Jan. 1, 2030, to be able to continue to offer services. The guide includes an explanation of seismic evaluation and retrofit, reasons for acting soon, and guidance on the least onerous and most economical retrofit options for many of the hospitals that have yet to achieve compliance.
Today’s healthcare institutions must be resilient to a host of potential threats—infrastructure failures, infectious outbreaks, mass casualty events, cyberattacks, and natural disasters. This executive guide examines the major considerations that can help organizations begin to chart their path toward true and comprehensive healthcare resilience.
The built industry is experiencing a growing trend toward more buildings being constructed from mass timber. This executive guide provides a broad overview of the sustainable building material—what it is, its benefits, limitations, and code considerations—to help owners, designers, and contractors decide if it is the right material for their projects.
In this executive guide, IMEG President and CEO Paul VanDuyne, Director of Sustainability Adam McMillen, and Director of Innovation Mike Lawless examine equity by design — the ability of the built environment to have positive effects on social inequality.
Good acoustics helps to provide a positive hospitality experience, but unfortunately noise is a frequent hotel complaint. This executive guide provides a high-level examination of the acoustic challenges faced by the hospitality industry and offers a high-level look at design solutions that can be considered by any architect and owner.
A microgrid is an emerging solution for the resiliency of healthcare facilities, ensuring uninterrupted care during long-term power loss from the grid. This executive guide provides a brief examination of the components, benefits, limitations, and challenges of microgrids, as well as tips for beginning the discussion on the feasibility of the technology for your facility.
Business owners can implement several key strategies to improve the safety of their offices as the workplace evolves and reacts to current and future security and health risks.
