SmithGroupJJR, an architecture, engineering, interiors and planning firm, added Tyler Krehlik, AIA, LEED AP at its San Francisco office. Krehlik joins SmithGroupJJR as associate architect and sustainability advisor for the office’s Healthcare Studio. In his 15 years of practice, Krehlik has established himself as leader in sustainable architecture for both health care and laboratory environments. Krehlik’s primary focus is on the health impact of buildings.
LA MESA, Calif. — St. Louis-headquartered McCarthy Building Companies Inc. began construction on the new 74,000-square-foot Heart and Vascular Center at Grossmont Hospital in La Mesa, as well as an 18,400-square-foot energy plant that will reduce the facility’s greenhouse gas emissions.
NEW YORK — In recent years, there has been a dramatic growth in sustainable design and green building practices to reduce the overall impact of the built environment on human health and the natural environment. Simultaneously, expertise in more traditional building practices such as Feng Shui and geomancy (earth energy studies) has also experienced increasing demand. Array Architects, with offices in New York, used these practices in the recent renovation of The Center for Health & Healing for Continuum Health Partners in New York.
SHANGHAI, China — After four years of construction, Thornton Tomasetti, with offices in Shanghai, announced earlier this month the topping out of the 2,073-foot-tall Shanghai Tower, China’s tallest building and the world’s second tallest after the 2,722-foot-tall Burj Khalifa building in Dubai, Un
CASTLE ROCK, Colo. — Construction on the new Castle Rock Adventist Hospital, which began in the summer of 2011, reached completion earlier this month. HuntonBrady Architects, a health care architectural firm based in Orlando, Fla., designed the 219,000-square-foot hospital.
AUSTIN, Texas — The new LEED-HC rating continues to make its mark as the new W.H.
LONDON — London-based powerPerfector has announced the expansion of its Voltage Power Optimisation (VPO) technology to the North American market through a partnership with the Enercorr Voltage Optimization Systems, based in Canada.
As the price of solar energy drops, many developers now see solar electricity and solar hot water as a significant way to save energy, which turns into a profitable return on investment.
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — At the American River College (ARC) in Sacramento, a new kind of education is developing: one that focuses on learning more than teaching.
ARLINGTON, Va. — Associated Builders and Contractors (ABC) is moving its national office from Arlington, Va., to Washington, D.C. The organization signed an 11-year lease with First Potomac Realty Trust for 19,830 square feet of office space.
ABC will take up the entire second floor and one-third of the third floor in the 10-story building. The Washington office of OTJ Architects is designing the office space, while Falls Church, Va.-based Hitt Contracting is the general contractor. Both companies are ABC members.
