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Frank Lloyd Wright’s Taliesin school of architecture faces accreditation loss

BD+C

Eighty-two years after its founding by its storied namesake, the Frank Lloyd Wright School of Architecture is currently at risk of losing its accreditation. read more.

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Gotcha: FTC Enforcement of "VOC Free" Claims for Paint

Green Building Law Update

The Federal Trade Commission’s Green Guides set forth the Commission’s current views on environmental marketing to help business avoid making unfair or deceptive claims. Earlier this year, the Commission issued orders resolving allegations that The Sherwin-Williams Company and PPG Architectural Finishes, Inc.

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Zaha Hadid unveils plan for boutique condo development in New York

BD+C

New York-based developer Related Companies announced that it has commissioned Zaha Hadid Architects to design a boutique condominium adjacent to the High Line at 520 West 28th Street in Chelsea just south of Hudson Yards.

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Sales commission or salary: The conudrum

Construction Marketing Ideas

in some fields, such as real estate sales, there seems to be only one answer: pure commission. However, this option isn’t universal within the architectural, engineering and construction community. The contractor says: Commission salespeople do not know how to treat people. So who is right?

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National Mall’s Constitution Gardens redesign unanimously approved

BD+C

Rogers Partners Architects+Urban Designers and PWP Landscape Architecture has announced that their redesign of Constitution Gardens on the National Mall, co-designed by the two firms, received unanimous approval from the U.S. Commission of Fine Arts and The National Capital Planning Commission (NCPC).

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Architectural, engineering and construction sales and marketing: What are the limits?

Construction Marketing Ideas

Most leaders at architectural, engineering and construction businesses don’t like to think at all about sales, and consider marketing to be an obscure, often expensive, and frustratingly unbillable add-on. They associate marketing with expensive branding efforts, overpriced and […].

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Tall Wood

SAB Magazine

In the fall of 2013, Forestry Innovation Investment and the Binational Softwood Lumber Council commissioned Perkins+Will to conduct a survey of completed Tall Wood buildings from around the world, and share the lessons learned by others with those contemplating similar projects in North America.