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Building Design+Construction's ® WHERE TECHNOLOGY AND INNOVATION COLLIDE 35TH ANNUAL RECONSTRUCTION AWARDS The Best in Adaptive Reuse, Historic Preservation, and Renovation 25 NATIONAL ARTS CENTRE OTTAWA, ONT. LEED: A LEGACY Leaders across the globe have made LEED the most widely used green building program in the world. Leave your legacy today. #LEEDlegacy usgbc.org/LEED CIRCLE 751 11•18 | NOVEMBER | 54 25 66 CLOCKWISE FROM TOP LEFT: NICK MCGINN, DOW, UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART NICK MCGINN, DOW, CLOCKWISE FROM TOP LEFT: FEATURES 20 TRENDSETTING PROJECTS 25 35TH ANNUAL Steel city remake: RECONSTRUCTION Pittsburgh pushes AWARDS mega–revitalization 26 Platinum Awards project 34 Gold Awards 40 Silver Awards 56 PRODUCT 44 Bronze Awards INNOVATIONS 50 Honorable Mentions Door access control goes ‘smart’ with phone-based DEPARTMENTS credentials CONTINUING 7 EDITORIAL 62 PRODUCTS AT EDUCATION WORK 9 NEWS+TRENDS Acoustic panels 10 Most Popular Global construction brighten school AIA Courses on set to rise to $12.9 cafeteria BDCuniverity trillion by 2022 66 GREAT SOLUTIONS 14 THINK TANK Canopy is p.54 Preventing damage reconfi gured by from cyberattacks drones on the fl y ON THE COVER: A hexagonal laminated timber coffer roof and decorative ceiling with built-in MEP/AV systems highlight the interior lobby at the National Arts Centre in Ottawa, Ont. The project is one of fi ve Gold Award winners in BD+C’s 35th 2014–2017 JESSE H. NEAL annual Reconstruction Awards. More on page 25. AWARD WINNER PHOTO: YOUNES BOUNHAR, DOUBLESPACE PHOTOGRAPHY BDCuniversity.com | BUILDING DESIGN+CONSTRUCTION | 3 | E-CONTENTS | BDCnetwork.com High humidity. Good for tree frogs, bad for bathrooms. PHOTO COURTESY GENSLER PHOTO COURTESY Upcycle, an 81,000-sf offi ce building in Austin, Texas, reused 95% of what had been a recycling warehouse. Adaptation is one of six areas where Gensler’s new report on the impact of design on the built environment focuses its recommendations. Installing underperforming bathroom exhaust fans can lead to uncontrolled condensation in REPORT HIGHLIGHTS Please take fi ve minutes bathrooms. Do you really want complaints about WHERE RESILIENT to complete our eleven- musty odors, corrosion of fixtures, or potential DESIGN MAKES THE question survey on AEC GREATEST IMPACT technology and innovation. health issues? Plug-and-play By the mid-21st century, Your answers will provide Ensure effective humidity sensor. more than three-quarters invaluable information to indoor air quality of the world’s population help us improve our edito- with Greenheck’s could be living in urban rial coverage. energy-saving, areas. Relentless urbaniza- BDCnetwork.com/BDCtechSurvey top-performing tion must reckon with the SP bathroom reality of climate change. AND THE MOST PRIZED exhaust fans, now In its Impact by Design re- OFFICE PERK IS… port, Gensler asserts that In the workplace environ- available with while the business case ment, employees want integrated humidity for sustainable design sunshine and views of the and occupancy “has never been clearer,” outdoors more than any sensors. *Complies with California Title 24 the specifi cs for achieving other amenity, according AMCA Licensed for Sound higher levels of sustainabil- to a survey by HR advisory ity “are changing.” fi rm Future Workplace. See- and Air Performance — BDCnetwork.com/Gensler2018 ing the light of day in the for certified performance offi ce was desired by re- you can trust. BD+C WANTS YOUR spondents even more than Learn more at INPUT ON AEC TECH cafeterias, fi tness centers, The BD+C editorial team and childcare. greenheck.com would like your feedback. BDCnetwork.com/Offi cePerk © 2018 Greenheck FOLLOW BD+C ON CIRCLE 752 Real projects start with the industry standard Before the project started, the Ohio History Connection ensured the restoration of the notable John Johnston Farm House was protected with AIA contracts. AIA Contract Documents used: A105-Owner/Contractor-Short Form. Learn more about the John Johnston Farm House project at aiacontracts.org/bdc-farmhouse Photography ©Marika Snider, AIA CIRCLE 753 CIRCLE 754 By David Barista, Editorial Director | | EDITORIAL BUILDING DESIGN +CONSTRUCTION VOLUME 59, NO. 11 EDITORIAL STAFF EDITORIAL DIRECTOR | David Barista 847.954.7929; [email protected] | AS TRADE WAR HEATS UP, LONG-TERM EXECUTIVE EDITOR Robert Cassidy 847.391.1040; [email protected] SENIOR EDITOR | John Caulfield 732.257.6319; jcaulfi [email protected] IMPACT IS ANYONE’S GUESS ASSOCIATE EDITOR | David Malone 847.391.1057; [email protected] EDITORS | Peter Fabris, Mike Plotnick, Adam Sullivan, C.C. Sullivan hen the Trump Administra- power a government-controlled economy DESIGNER | Cathy LePenske tion imposed tariffs of 25% on like China’s can wield. The nation is home WEB DESIGNER | Agnes Smolen steel and 10% on aluminum to half of the world’s 10 largest steel pro- in March, it kicked off one duction operations, and has been known EDITORIAL ADVISORS of the nation’s most heated to “dump cheap steel” on the world mar- | DAVID P. CALLAN PE, CEM, LEED AP, HBDP and far-reaching trade wars ket to artifi cially defl ate material prices, Senior Vice President, McGuire Engineers since the Smoot-Hawley Tariff said DiMicco. More alarming, he said, is PATRICK E. DUKE | Senior Vice President, W CBRE Healthcare Act of 1930. That legislation, the potential threat to national security: CAROLYN FERGUSON | FSMPS, CPSM which was expanded by President Hoover “Our defense department says we can no President, WinMore Marketing Advisors to include more than 20,000 products longer supply parts we need for our mili- JOSH FLOWERS | AIA, LEED AP General Counsel, Hnedak Bobo Group across the agriculture and industrial ARLEN SOLOCHEK | FAIA, Associate Vice sectors, is viewed historically as an Chancellor, Maricopa County CCD abject failure and a prime reason for Opponents of Trump’s actions on trade PHILIP TOBEY | FAIA, FACHA Senior Vice President, SmithGroup the sustained economic depression PETER WEINGARTEN | AIA, LEED AP through the 1930s. argue that the policies are outmoded, Director of the Architectural Practice, Gensler Seven months into Trump’s trade short-sighted measures that BUSINESS STAFF war, the jury is still out. The circum- stances today are markedly different GROUP DIRECTOR – PRINCIPAL | Tony Mancini undermine a free trade economy. 484.412.8686, [email protected] than 88 years ago, of course. The EVENTS MANAGER | Judy Brociek economy is strong. But America is no 847.954.7943; [email protected] longer the global manufacturing power- tary. You cannot be a leader of the world SENIOR AUDIENCE DEVELOPMENT MANAGER | Kim Smaga house it once was, and the nation has if you don’t have a strong manufacturing For list rental information, contact Claude Marada operated a global trade defi cit of $100 bil- base and a strong steel industry.” at 402.836.6274; claude.marada@infogroup. lion or more annually since the late 1990s Meanwhile, the U.S. construction com or Bart Piccirillo at 402.836.6283; [email protected] (last year: $795 billion). industry keeps humming along. Prices for CREATIVE SERVICES COORDINATOR | Dara Rubin Opponents of Trump’s actions on trade aluminum- and steel-based materials have MARKETING MANAGER | Nancy Lewis argue that the policies are outmoded, soared, but the construction sector seems [email protected] shortsighted measures that undermine to be taking it in stride. Nonresidential CORPORATE a free trade economy. Pundits in Trump’s construction spending reached a record- CHAIRMAN EMERITUS (1922-2003) | H.S. Gillette camp believe that any short-term hit to high $762.7 billion in August, bolstered by CHAIRPERSON | K.A. Gillette U.S. businesses is worth the potential a healthy backlog of work. And even when | CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER E.S. Gillette long-term impact to the economy, particu- the impacts from the tariffs are factored PRESIDENT | Rick Schwer CHIEF OPERATING OFFICER | David Shreiner larly the manufacturing sector. in, construction industry economists SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT | Ann O’Neill “For the last 25 years, China has been remain largely upbeat with their forecasts DIRECTOR OF STRATEGIC PRODUCT waging a trade war against the United for 2019 (tinyurl.com/y9qwcwln). DEVELOPMENT | John Atwood States,” said Dan DiMicco, a senior trade For now, Building Teams are fi nding a VICE PRESIDENT OF CUSTOM MEDIA & CREATIVE SERVICES | Diane Vojcanin adviser to President Trump’s campaign, way to get their projects completed under For advertising contacts, see page 65. during a talk at Metalcon last month. “A increasingly onerous circumstances. Is lot of us have been fi ghting that war, but there a tipping point when escalating costs without the resources to win it, until now.” will force developers to shelve projects? DiMicco should know. As the former Or will prices stabilize to a “new normal” 3030 W. SALT CREEK LANE, SUITE 201 ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, IL 60005-5025 CEO of Nucor Corp., the nation’s largest that keeps the work fl owing? The answers, 847.391.1000 • FAX: 847.390.0408 steel producer, he’s seen fi rsthand the unfortunately, are anyone’s guess. BDCuniversity.com | BUILDING DESIGN+CONSTRUCTION | 7 | NEWS+TRENDS | By John Caulfi eld, Senior Editor, and David Malone, Associate Editor OCCUPYING A HIGH-PERFORMANCE BUILDING CAN FATTEN A COMPANY’S LONG-TERM BOTTOM LINE, SAYS NEW REPORT study that baselines all the that companies occupying NPV PER EMPLOYEE OVER 10 YEARS metrics listed in its report high-performance buildings and compares them to an gain a median $3,395 in occupant moving into a annual profi t per employee, Increased Employee Retention high-performance building. or $18.56/sf. Over a $9,669/Employee Nevertheless, the report 10-year period, this works implies that the proposi- out to a net present value tion about how much a of $21,172 in profi t gain Enhanced Employee Total Net Present Value Productivity (over 10 years) company can benefi t from per employee, or $115/sf.
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