Part 2 of this series examines threats driving the need for security planning and design in buildings. It focuses on criminal and terrorist threats...
Part 2 of this series examines threats driving the need for security planning and design in buildings. It focuses on criminal and terrorist threats...
This course explores contextual issues for security at regional, community, and local levels. Emerging issues facing design professionals are...
Growing US cities face escalating housing costs, residential and commercial displacement, homelessness, and the suburbanization of poverty. As...
This course addresses those elements that comprise the standard of care and the linkage to liability that an architect faces during a project’s...
Adaptive reuse is becoming increasingly common because it not only preserves important historical features of existing buildings but is also...
Compared to indicative and investigative postoccupancy evaluations (POEs), diagnostic POEs tend to provide more comprehensive and in-depth evaluations...
While investigative postoccupancy evaluations (POEs) tend to require more planning and resource allocation than indicative POEs, they often provide a...
Although cursory in nature, an indicative postoccupancy evaluation (POE) provides an indication of the major failures and successes in a building’s...
While postoccupancy evaluations (POEs) can be used to measure the overall performance of a building in relation to its intended use, other building...
With growing interest in taller wood-frame buildings—many with five stories of wood on podiums and with wood-frame mezzanines—there has also been...