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Stantec’s Top 10 Ideas from 2024—plus 1 more for fun
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Beyond the game: Sports stadium design for world-class events
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Design Hive: Chris Keller on an AI design competition
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Design Quarterly Issue 23 | Technology update
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Storytelling for buildings: Why real estate branding matters
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Breaking up with the mega hospital: Redefining healthcare campus master planning in Canada
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7 elements of successful cultural center design
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The impact of AI and cameras on physical security design
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Stantec.io Podcast: Digital innovation in buildings
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Recalculating ROI for a commercial building retrofit
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Raising the bar for athletic facilities
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Water consumption concerns as data center use increases
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Fueling the future: The promise of hydrogen fuel
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6 schools in 3 years through unique delivery
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[With Video] Delivering equity through P3 school design
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[With Video] Can multisensory spaces help reduce anxiety, stress in university students?
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Using chilled beams for lab ventilation to maximize energy efficiency
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Office building asset repositioning: What should you look for?
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3 reasons for adaptive building reuse
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Design Quarterly Issue 22 | Experiences
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Design Hive: Jan Wei on NYC’s Local Law 97 emission limits
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How to design resilient power systems in data centers
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Collaborative care: Boundaryless healthcare design for outpatient clinics
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6 big net zero design ideas for a Houston Astrodome renovation
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With every community, Stantec redefines what’s possible
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With new CSA standards, healthcare systems will need a decarbonization roadmap
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Aligning ESG in commercial real estate
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Emergency renewal: Renew Sinai—Phase 3A emergency department renovation
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AI meets analogue: Harmonizing mock-ups with generative AI
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Design Hive: Beth Tomlinson on building decarbonization and ASHRAE standards
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3 trends guiding architectural design trends for autism providers
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How can design respond to burnout in healthcare professionals?
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Large-scale redevelopment projects need to learn from small-scale historic neighborhoods
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Research + Benchmarking Issue 04 | Inclusion, Diversity, and Wellness
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Net zero building design starts with industry climate pledges
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How virtual reality could transform architecture
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Preparing for building performance standards in cities
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Design Quarterly Issue 21 | Adaptive Reuse
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Early childhood education in the modern world
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Steve Flinn talks about controllers and their nuances
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6 tips for designing allied health education facilities
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Edge data centers can speed your online experience
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Acoustics: Impact of noise and vibration
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Designing a workplace experience to answer: ‘Why should I go into the office?’
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Live, work, play: Office building conversion practices for downtown revitalization
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Stantec.io Podcast: Advanced Tech and Reality Insight
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Could ‘smart’ building facades heat and cool buildings?
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Towering transformation: Yale revamp of historic structure embraces green design
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Sense of Community: Culturally responsive design fits buildings to place and purpose
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Behind the Scenes: Designing for Career and Technical Education
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Geoexchange system installation: 6 steps that prioritize safety and efficiency
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The next destination: Passive design airports
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Stantec.io Podcast: The Growth and Innovation Episode
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Why decarbonizing hospitals smartly is better than electrification for healthcare design
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Shrinking space: Post-pandemic law firm offices are smaller and more communal
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Building decarbonization strategy: It starts before electrification
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Is your smart building an easy target for hackers?
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Stantec’s Top 10 Ideas from 2023
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Does your building need a life cycle assessment?
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Sounding off on open office plans and workplace acoustics
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Low-carbon building materials: Designers discuss alternative options
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Design Quarterly Issue 20 | RETHINK
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5 questions to ask before you write a decarbonization RFP
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New ASHRAE standards tip the balance toward net zero buildings
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Designing for school safety through CPTED and biophilic concepts
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Miami design team sets the table for success
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Mall of the Future Webinar Series
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How does the 2020 National Building Code impact seismic design in Canada?
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The Meaning of Design
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Embodied carbon: Mining to decarbonize buildings
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Passive house design regulations: Here are 8 strategies for multifamily projects
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What is Stantec.io?
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Helping create the most sustainable tree nursery business park in Europe
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The future of design and AI in architecture
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Workplace Reboot: A workspace that reflects a commitment to sustainability, health, and well-being
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Robots in the workplace: This one scans for indoor air quality and more
Design Quarterly Issue 19 | Decarbonization
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Destination Maintenance
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How can design better prepare future healthcare professionals?
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Advanced manufacturing facilities are key to a sustainable future
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Inclusive student housing: The needs, numbers, and nuances
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Trauma-informed care: Indigenous healthcare designed for empathy, wellness, and safety
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Master planning in an age of turbulent change
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Bats in buildings: How airborne eDNA can help you identify bat species at risk
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Zero emissions buses and the energy transition: How do transit agencies adjust facilities?
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How design in education is shaping workplaces of the future
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Elevating community mental health
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From A to Gen Z: Designing better workspaces for everyone
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8 challenges holding back vertical farming facilities
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From microchips to canola oil, manufacturers want to build factories in North America
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A modular construction solution to the mental healthcare crisis
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Can emerging alternative delivery processes result in better hospital design?
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Healthy roots: How to create educational spaces for early developmental success
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Workplace Reboot: 4 ways buildings and property owners can decrease potential legislation penalties
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Paging all future veterinarians
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Design Quarterly Issue 18 | The Future of Design
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What’s so great about integrated design?
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How the latest technology makes better buildings
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Proton therapy design (Part 2): Tracing the patient journey
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Evolving roles of the workplace designer
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How design can support mental health through crisis stabilization centers
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VR and community outreach programs: Building social acceptance with immersive technology
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New York City’s Local Law 97 is fighting climate change, focusing on sustainable buildings
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6 design approaches that humanize cancer care amid technology advances
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Designing for neurodiversity: Creating spaces that are inclusive of all
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Successful Indigenous school design: Listening, understanding, and acting
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Workplace Reboot: Understand the penalties for not complying with emissions legislation
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How can schools build strong career and technical education programs? Partnerships
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What is an innovation center? A collaborative workspace that’s essential in today’s office
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Is your healthcare facility resilient enough?
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Research + Benchmarking Issue 03 | Planting Seeds
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Development, Environment, Community: A Q&A with Stantec President and CEO Gord Johnston
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Navigating the Complexity of the Hybrid Workplace Design Process
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Stantec.io Podcast: The Smart Cities Episode
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Net Positive Energy for People
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Creating Better Spaces
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[With Video] New city regulations are driving building retrofits
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Debunking 7 myths and embracing a universal design mindset
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Design Hive: Robyn Whitwham on designing for mental health
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Design Quarterly Issue 17 | New Design Essentials
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Better than ever: 5 things becoming a parent taught me about pediatric design
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7 ways we can design more resilient healthcare projects today
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Small modular reactors: How the next wave of nuclear power can fuel the energy transition
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Workplace Reboot: How carbon impact legislation will affect building owners
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Bond programs 101: My school district needs money. Where do we start?
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Do you want functional lighting or fantastic lighting? The difference is commissioning
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One module at a time: The future of affordable housing
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Why healthcare masterplanning needs engineering masterminds
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Envisioning the future of your healthcare network: How to develop a campus master plan
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Using well-being, student input, and stewardship to design a WELL school
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Family’s cancer journey helps designer turn fragile moments into better projects
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The Kenaitze Indian Tribe welcomes a new education center in Alaska
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Building Decarbonization: The Urgency and Value
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Buildings that Evolve: Design for Future-readiness
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Designing for a client’s nature-driven mission
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Design Hive: Daryl Fonslow on adaptive reuse to net zero
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Workplace Reboot: Building consensus - a key (and fun!) aspect of workplace strategy
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Stantec’s Buildings Team celebrates 10 years of being at the forefront of design
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Putting the people back in operations and maintenance facilities
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Design Quarterly Issue 16 | Climate Risk
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UT Dallas Sciences Building Uses Zinc to Put Science on Display
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Rethinking air pressure in operating rooms could save lives
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Workplace Reboot: A glass concourse transformed creates an urban, big city vibe
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Brick-and-Mortar Retail Design: Reimagining the Way We Shop
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Even popular retail malls are reevaluating and refocusing to amplify experiences
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[With Video] 7 approaches to creating affordable housing for artists
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How high-performance buildings attract high-performing people
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Designing for gender inclusivity in industrial facilities
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Rethinking resuscitation rooms: A new approach for a vital healthcare space
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Design Hive: Dr. Rick Huijbregts on smart cities
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Avoiding the wrecking ball: Restoring purpose in aging commercial properties
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7 approaches to building reuse to help existing properties reach net zero
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Workplace Reboot: The challenge – modernize, relocate, expand, sustain
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Home is Where the Art is
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Proton therapy design (Part 1): Putting the patient experience first
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Retail, Restaurant Industries Embrace Post-Pandemic Design Shifts
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Buildings that care: 6 things to know about WELL certification in hospitals
How can solar canopies help us electrify our industry?
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Breathe easier: Mitigating welding hazards with ventilation and exhaust
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Workplace Reboot: What’s so great about Beauty and Awe?
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[With Video] 4 reasons we’re excited about our new automated design tool
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Design Quarterly Issue 15 | Reuse and Revitalization
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Reinventing the Thompson Center: A research project into a modular, mixed-use destination
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3 design solutions to sort out the carbon impact of logistics
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Workplace Reboot: A reimagined office building becomes a magnet for both employers and employees
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Creating memories in a supportive home away from home
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Museum lighting case study: How a single exhibit embodies an impactful mission
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Santiago Airport becomes the most modern in South America
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Breaking the bias: How two women are making spaces and places more inclusive
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How to Plan Office Space When Temporary Becomes Permanent
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4 HVAC Strategies to Still Protect Against COVID-19
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Planning for the future of healthcare in Ontario
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The (remote) doctor is in: 5 ways telehealth is changing design
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Design through stories: Experience-based design in pediatric healthcare
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Workplace Reboot: There's more to lighting design than meets the eye
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Combining Generic/Flexible Labs with Highly Specialized Research Space
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Resilience checklist: 10 steps to improving your community’s resilience
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Research + Benchmarking Issue 02 | Connected
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Climate Solutions Webinar Series: Climate solutions that work
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It takes two: How architects and engineers blend their talents
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Climate Solutions Webinar Series: Navigating climate change terminology
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Workplace Reboot: Law firm takes the hybrid approach
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Smarter care at Vaughan’s first hospital
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From airside to landside: Diversifying the airport program
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How do we shift to a circular economy? It starts with dumping the end-of-life concept
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Design Hive: Brenda Bush-Moline on health equity
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4 keys to keeping mechanical systems running during a hospital renovation
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UV-C Radiation to combat healthcare associated infections
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Community-minded Design
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First Nations school design case study: Listen, learn, then design
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Design Quarterly Issue 14 | Tools and Data
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Student housing success: How P3 helped UC Davis meet its goals
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How is transit responding to reopening?
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Design inspiration for creating spaces to inspire your students, researchers, and staff
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Deliver smart buildings using CSI Division 25, commissioning
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Mechanical engineering and industrial buildings: Why we need to go above and beyond
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What will the future campus look like?
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3 emerging trends that put the “community” in community rec center design
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Water Power
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Holistic heroes: How lighting designers use efficiency and modeling to boost performance
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Tackling climate change: Identifying global opportunities in response to the IPCC AR6
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Continuous, holistic, and equitable health communities
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What to consider when converting office or commercial space to science use
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Giants of Design on Corporate Trends
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Top 100 Green Design Firms
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6 factors when planning a school sports facility
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Back in Business: Minimizing Spread of Disease Remains Priority
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Passports to a net zero carbon future
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How to step into the net zero zone
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Listening to the land to design an urban Indigenous healthcare facility
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Clean Slate
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Highlighting the hidden: Integrating operational infrastructure into the community
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What to consider when converting commercial or office space to life-science use
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Untapped potential: Expanding healthcare space, capabilities within a limited footprint
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Design Quarterly Issue 13 | After the Reset
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Harmonizing the seen and unseen when designing for neurodiversity
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The port of the future: Secure, sustainable, and welcoming
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Recycle your building: 8 reasons to consider adaptive reuse and retrofitting
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Designing for Impact: Hubs and Corridors
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From no natural light to low ceilings, interior designers share 15 clever fixes to design
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How to spend COVID relief funding to improve K12 environments
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As we return to the workplace, it’s important to ask: How safe is your building’s water?
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Emerging Trends in Sports Facility Design
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From zero to hero: Kick-starting the rebirth of North America’s malls
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Supporting equity with an inclusive neighborhood—it’s urban planning for all
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Elevators and Fire Sprinklers: Fire Safety Moves On Up
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Early education case study: Using design to nurture diverse learners
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What do employees want in the office of the future? See what they told us.
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Planning for a New Workplace Paradigm
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Exploring the possibilities with 3D printing
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Design Quarterly Issue 12 | Equity and Inclusion
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What business are airports really in?
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COVID-19 has accelerated the need for flexible labs and research environments
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Taking design to new heights through market insights and innovation
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Office Design in a Post-Covid World
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8 design strategies to enhance access to urban mental healthcare
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Finding success for downtown office space after COVID-19
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Beyond the terminals: How airports are helping strengthen communities and promote culture
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Double-edged sword for industrial sector
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Chicago’s Historic Post Office Houses an Expansive Office for Walgreens
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Improving Children’s Wellbeing with Nature in Mind
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Certification is Serious (but don’t just take my word for it)
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Keeping retail banks relevant (Part 2): Understanding generational preferences
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What role do buildings play in the energy transition?
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The Lily Pad Network: A natural analogy to advance resiliency
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Keeping retail banks relevant (Part 1): Becoming a post-pandemic “third place”
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Think Tank: Stanley A. Milner Library Renewal
7 trends and techs—and 3 obstacles—shaping the big picture for an energy transition
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Research + Benchmarking Issue 01 | How Buildings Shape Us
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The Nature Conservancy’s New Space by Stantec is Designed with A Colorado Nature Motif
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Accessibility isn’t just the law, it’s good business
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Wood and timber in student housing design
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Airports: Ensuring financial resilience through diversification
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Integrating a BAS into design
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5 steps toward efficient building performance—from LEDs to heat pumps and more
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Design Quarterly Issue 11 | Empowering Design
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Sea change: 5 smart technologies to help us design better shipping gateways
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Building a legacy: Designing sports facilities that serve communities for decades
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Advancing Cancer Care
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Innovative ideas to clear the air
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Hidden in history: Creating invisible mechanical systems in heritage buildings
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Building industry diversity: 5 ways to empower disadvantaged business enterprise firms
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Dinner in a “snow globe”—one designer’s plan to help restaurants during a COVID-19 winter
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How to turn shopping malls into a physical and virtual retail world
Webinar Recording
Global Panel on COVID-19 Responses in Vulnerable Urban Contexts
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How virtual design changes the way we work
Electricity as a clean source of energy: Quebec’s example
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Students, tech, COVID drive higher ed HVAC design
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The Indigenous Hub in Toronto Promises a Brighter Future
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5 reasons the Denver Metro area will be a post-pandemic “winner”
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Carbon: A common language for change—now is the time to act
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Pandemic Response Lessons From Singapore
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Warm welcome: What to consider when designing a modern mental health space
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Renewal Rooms for Nurses
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Taking down the walls around mental health care
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Is this the beginning of a micromobility revolution?
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Tailoring Mental Health Design To Young Adult Patients
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[With Video] Why VR matters in healthcare design
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Going viral: How the coronavirus pandemic could change the built environment
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Core Considerations for Early Childhood Classroom Design
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Signaling a Safe Return
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Basics of industrial, manufacturing facility design
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[With Video] Beyond the monument: Honoring our heroes through contextual design
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Design Quarterly Issue 10 | The Carbon Issue
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How This Veterans Research Building Evolved Amidst Design Changes
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A hybrid learning approach could redefine higher education
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[With Video] How a young team shaped a new home for a mental health center
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Awaiting departure, 6 feet away: How will airport holdrooms adjust?
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What does designing with the heart of healthcare mean for nurses?
Webinar Recording
Mall Remix: breathing new life into old malls
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Did COVID-19 finally push us to completely paperless projects?
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Reconstruction could be COVID-19’s silver lining
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Pandemic control in high-performance buildings
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How to focus on health and wellness in existing buildings
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Denver Water: A Holistic Design For First-Of-Its-Kind Water Reuse Initiative By Stantec
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Room to Grow
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UV lighting in building infection control: Can passive light safely kill coronavirus?
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5 strategies for creating safer, healthier hotel experiences
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How parametric design helps in the creation of custom interior elements
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Retail as a stage: Today’s extension of a centuries-old philosophy
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Port of the Future
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Scanning smarter: Using reality capture on renovations
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Engineering our return to the workplace after COVID-19
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Exploring the airborne transmission of the coronavirus and strategies for mitigating risk
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Beyond sports: 4 ways investments in athletic facilities improve communities
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Published in STRIVE Magazine: Starting a journey toward homeless solutions
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Building resiliency in transit design during COVID-19 and beyond
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From the Design Quarterly: Hospitality design in the digital era. How “smart” is smart?
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4 technologies for improving building sanitization in a post-pandemic society
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Reawakening theme park magic while staying socially distant and safe
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Bright places and gathering spaces: 5 tips to design a modern industrial learning center
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Empathy, leadership, and listening during the pandemic pause
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Can airports integrate health screening and security measures into a single process?
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If history is our guide, then COVID-19 will improve airport baggage check-in
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Why mobility modelling is the secret to return-to-work
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The 42nd Floor: A view into the space and technology of the workplace we will return to
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Infection control in office buildings: Preparing for re-occupancy amid the coronavirus
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Using lighting IoT data to inform a safer office reentry strategy
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Design Quarterly Issue 09 | People, buildings & technology
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Airport traffic collapse—crisis or opportunity? Rethinking the business of airports
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Lasers to the rescue: Using technology to collect essential data during COVID-19
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A global view of design and urban planning post-COVID-19 (Part 4): How will cities change?
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Published in Dezeen: "This is not a hospital" says architect behind McCormick conversion
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So, what happens when it’s time to get back to the office?
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Published in Work Design: Choosing Responsibly: Healthier Materials in the Workplace
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Published in Healthcare Design: Solutions for Pandemic-Related Healthcare Capacity Issues
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How remote VR meetings help design teams overcome the challenges of COVID-19
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Why it’s time to reimagine long-term care facilities
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5 ways to achieve a healthier work space now and after COVID-19
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The COVID-19 pandemic is proof that it’s time to implement virtual healthcare
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Pandemic preparedness: How hospitals can adapt buildings to address worst-case scenarios
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It’s not if, but when: Designing healthcare spaces that support pandemic response
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Published in Buildings: 5 Things to Consider Before Starting a Lighting Upgrade
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[With Video] From the Design Quarterly: How can lighting design influence wellness?
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How do office sounds impact design? Hint: Not all sound in the workplace is bad
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Published in Retrofit: Designers Befriend a Researcher
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The joys of recycling a building: How to get your adaptive reuse project on track
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From the Design Quarterly: What does it mean to fly well?
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Great lighting design—a key to an immersive experience and occupant well-being
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Celebrating the Year of the Nurse: Impacting hospital design as clinical consultants
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Published in The Boston Globe: New high-rise in Chinatown will include affordable housing
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How technology is changing the patient experience—and what that means for designers
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Published in Alaska Business: Architecture in Alaska
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Published in Alaska Business: The art of architecture
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Why start-to-finish construction management is imperative to a successful airport project
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From the Design Quarterly: Design drivers for a new behavioral and mental health facility
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Published: Cooperatives Offer Innovative Option to Solve the Affordable Housing Shortage
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Friday Night Lights: The architecture of high school football stadium design in Texas
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A hospital that feels like home: Community as inspiration in healthcare design
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From the Design Quarterly: How do you future-proof a stadium in the digital age?
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Waste not, want not: Turning human waste into a renewable-energy source for buildings
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Design Quarterly Issue 08 | Wellness & Active Lifestyles
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Better than before: 3 ways design can ease the transition to safety for survivors of abuse
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What’s cooking? When it comes to commercial kitchen design, it’s all about ventilation
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Repurposing Retail Centers: Profiles in Adaptation, Repositioning and Redevelopment
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Research and benchmarking: Revisiting a 21st century library a decade after design
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From the Design Quarterly: 3 strategies to design academic research facilities to last
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3 benefits to embracing an integrated approach to building design
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World Cities Day: Here’s how we can build a better urban life for future generations
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6 myths about embracing non-toxic materials in interior design
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From the Design Quarterly: House calls of the future
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Published in ARCHITECT: Integrating VR and AR Into Design Workflows
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Published in Building Design + Construction: 2019 Multifamily Giants Report
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A culture of convenience is finding its way to healthcare
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Design Quarterly Issue 07 | Adapting to Change
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Published in Medical Construction & Design: Grounded Art
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Published in Medical Construction & Design: Sustainability and the Patient Experience
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From the Design Quarterly: Stantec's CEO explores how sustainability is at the core of our business
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Published: Beat the Heat—4 Energy-Saving Design Tips for Hot Climates
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Published: Cure for the Cold—4 Energy-Saving Tips for Buildings in Cold Climates
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Published in PRISM: A healthy future for mass timber in medical facilities
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From the Design Quarterly: What are sustainability rankings and why do they matter?
Webinar Recording
What is Canada’s 1st accessibility assessment tool?
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Weaving mental healthcare spaces into the neighborhood
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How can we optimize evolving lighting design to enhance health and well-being?
Video
How do our library and learning commons designs stack up?
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Grounded art: Flooring in healthcare spaces increases in creativity and impact
Article
Published in Metro Magazine: Retrofitting garages for zero-emissions buses
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Building pride and community through high school athletics facility design
Article
Published in Alaska Business Monthly: Arctic infrastructure ingenuity
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Let it rain: A holistic plan for water use and reuse in a sustainable building
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Healthcare design choices: Is polyurethane upholstery fabric the best option in hospitals?
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Elderly care: Can design cure loneliness as we focus on aging in place?
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Design Quarterly Issue 06 | Destination Zero
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From the Design Quarterly: Embracing the unknown when thinking big data and smart cities
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Designing wellness communities to focus on integrated healthcare—reducing costs naturally
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Why the most effective school designs go beyond safety and security
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From the Design Quarterly: Technologies and trends changing how we power our world
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4 design features of a modern medical office building that make it a community landmark
The power of mentorship: Choosing to help students find their career path
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Published in Green Operations: Holistic Healthcare
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Illuminating trends for better healthcare
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From the Design Quarterly: Housing design that keeps the city within reach
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[With Video] 5 ways to design a transit maintenance facility that’s also a people place
Published Article
Resiliency or sustainability: Which is most important when designing for transit agencies?
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From the Design Quarterly: Embracing modular and prefab for future-ready design
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Brick-and-mortar retail is not dead—here’s proof
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From the Design Quarterly: Teaching sustainability and energy conservation through play
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Energy efficiency is really about energy productivity—and that’s about the bottom line
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Published: Four considerations before embarking on a carbon therapy center
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6 ways to brand your property
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Art and architecture meet in the desert
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What happens downtown doesn’t stay downtown: The ripple effects of a strong center city
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Micro-apartments: Are these tiny units coming to the suburbs?
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Self-service bag drops and the challenges of speeding up airport baggage check-in
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From ancient to contemporary: How to design a monastery in the 21st century
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Design comeuppance: The call center gets its turn
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From the Design Quarterly: Speak up. Get involved. Shape the future.
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From the Design Quarterly: Why a buildings engineer may see an earth tube in your future
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How virtual reality can improve client and end-user relationships
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From the Design Quarterly: Creating the right collisions for higher education
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Published in Parks & Rec Business: An Uphill Battle
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Listening at the point of care: 4 key points from the first-ever Caregivers’ Forum
Article
Published: Structural engineer rides out 7.0 quake in Anchorage, then inspects for damage
Article
The Dream Cabin: Reinventing what it’s like to sleep in a hotel room
Video
Rethinking details with Passive House
Article
From the Design Quarterly: A healthy future for mass timber in medical facilities
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Open plan 2.0: Tips for a successful transition to a new open-office design
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Prefab lab systems: Concepts to optimize construction, maintenance, and flexibility
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From the Design Quarterly: Breaking down silos in healthcare education
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Mental Health and Substance Use Wellness Centre at Royal Columbian Hospital
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From the Design Quarterly: What happens when hospitals move out?
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Design Quarterly Issue 04 | Intersections
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How the right-sizing of hybrid operating rooms helps hospitals, surgeons, and patients
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Designing healthcare spaces for kids: Infusing a sense of exploration and curiosity
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Healthy light: How to design tunable or dynamic lighting to benefit patients and staff
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BREEAM New Construction 2018 - Part Two
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From the Design Quarterly: Embracing new technology to improve design
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7 principles to create a get-well plan for healthcare
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From the Design Quarterly: Digitally illuminating a city’s utilization
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Corporate workplace design: 8 interiors trends to watch
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The charms and challenges of working on Mackinac Island include winter and water
Published Article
Published in Seattle DJC: OSU football center opts for flexible lighting scheme
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BREEAM New Construction 2018 - Part One
Published Article
Published in LD+A Magazine: Circadian in the Workplace: Does it make sense
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From the Design Quarterly: Bringing an urban campus together for the better
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World Architecture Day: How do people and places impact global design decisions?
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