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Artificial Intelligence
Mar 25, 2024
How Transportation Agencies Can Leverage the AI Revolution
How artificial intelligence (AI) is revolutionizing the transportation sector through improved efficiency, prediction, and automation capabilities, benefiting from recent technological advancements and significant federal infrastructure investments.
Design & Build Glossary
Aug 21, 2024
Term of the Day: Galleting or Gaffering
Galleting (also known as gaffering) is a traditional building technique used in masonry construction, particularly in certain regions of the United Kingdom. It involves inserting small stones or pieces of flint into the mortar joints of stone walls.
Industrial Real Estate
Mar 11, 2024
Building the Future of Cold Storage: ARCO Design/Build's Cutting-Edge Facility in New England
ARCO Design/Build's Cold Storage Construction is redefining food distribution. Get an exclusive inside look at the New England Cold Storage Facility and witness how our design-build process is leading the industry.
Artificial Intelligence
Sep 29, 2025
How AI is Transforming Workplace Architecture and Design
How Artificial Intelligence is reshaping workplace environments, focusing on optimizing space for efficiency, sustainability, and enhancing employee experiences, while emphasizing the need for ethical integration of AI.
Architectural Photography
Nov 25, 2024
Photography for Architects by Martine Hamilton Knight
"Photography for Architects" by Martine Hamilton Knight, a seasoned architectural photographer, emphasizes the importance of curated, high-quality photography in architecture's visual marketing strategies amidst the overwhelming digital noise.
Airports
Mar 7, 2024
How to Design a Modern Hub Airport: Lessons Learned from Salt Lake City’s New Aviation Hub
HOK discusses the design and development of Salt Lake City’s new hub airport, focusing on collaboration, creating a unique sense of place, maximizing ROI through thoughtful design, prioritizing sustainability and resilience, and adapting project phases, showcasing it as a model of modern, efficient, and beautiful airport architecture.
Workplace Innovation
Dec 26, 2024
Gen Z at Workplaces - Insights from Lauri Goodman Lampson
Lauri Goodman Lampson, President and CEO of PDR, suggests that attracting and retaining Generation Z talent requires recognizing their unique perspectives, aligning company values with theirs, fostering inclusivity, and leveraging their insights to drive innovation and build resilient workplaces.
Design & Build Glossary
Aug 17, 2024
Term of the Day: Lally Column
A Lally Column is a structural support column typically made of a steel pipe filled with concrete. It is commonly used in residential and commercial construction to provide support for beams and other load-bearing elements of a building.
Design & Build Glossary
Jul 25, 2024
Term of the Day: Cellular Concrete
Cellular concrete, also known as aerated concrete, foam concrete, or lightweight concrete, is a type of concrete that contains stable air or gas bubbles evenly distributed throughout its mass. This is achieved by introducing a foaming agent into the concrete mix, which results in a lightweight material with a range of densities and properties.
Marketing
Mar 7, 2024
15 Ways To Develop A Customer-Centric Content Strategy
This article from Forbes Agency Council, originally published on Feb 25, 2021, provides 15 expert tips on how brands can craft effective, customer-focused content marketing strategies, emphasizing the importance of understanding and addressing the audience's needs and values.
Design Trends
Feb 22, 2024
What’s the Recipe for a Great Central Business District?
Sofia Song, Stella Donovan, and Jacqueline Scherr, leveraging the 2023 Gensler City Pulse study, emphasize that a great Central Business District (CBD) significantly enhances urban dwellers' city experience, with effective amenities, transportation, and activities, alongside the need for safety, affordability, and aesthetic appeal, being key to fostering favorable perceptions and meeting the evolving demands of city life.
Design Trends
Dec 11, 2024
Design for a Radically Changing World
Design for a Radically Changing World brings to light the impact of design on our everyday lives and offers innovative ways that design can help address some of the world’s most pressing issues and urgent crises. From rethinking the future of work and the integration of live/work/play in our daily lives, to addressing climate change and revitalizing our urban cores, design can bring people together, elevate the human experience, and provide hope for the future.
Design & Build Glossary
Sep 10, 2024
Term of the Day: Silica Flour
Silica Flour is a finely ground form of silica (silicon dioxide, SiO₂), derived from high-purity quartz or other forms of crystalline silica. It is typically produced by milling or grinding silica sand or quartz into very fine particles, resulting in a powder-like consistency and used in a variety of construction materials.
Cold Storage
Apr 17, 2024
Thermal Energy Storage™
Efficiency, Flexibility, Resiliency Across the Global Cold Chain
Viking Cold provides environmentally friendly Thermal Energy Storage technology that is proven to significantly reduce operational costs and business risk for cold storage facilities, supermarkets, and restaurants with refrigeration-based energy loads.
Climate Change
Mar 7, 2024
How COP28 Could Influence the Building Sector
HOK sustainable design leaders discuss a number important topics, including:
1. the need for standardized building codes
2. a renewed focus on resiliency
3. building materials that mitigate embodied carbon
4. new green financing and funding measures
5. the urgency to take action now
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