Hollywood and Highland is no longer just an intersection - it's 2 million square feet of multiuse commercial space where visitors can do everything from grab lunch to attend the Academy Awards. Designers faced the usual space challenges, but other special concerns ranged from adjusting to the facility's late classification as a high-rise building to supporting Wolfgang Puck's kitchen. By Joanna R. Turpin
Del Mar French Laundry in Monterey, CA, has been operating since 1932 when Cedo Gospodnetich's family came to America and started their new business in the height of the Depression.
Leaking radiant panel valves had become an expensive maintenance problem for the Five Points Plaza building in Atlanta. Replacing the radiant ceiling system with a variable-air volume (vav) system could
The owners of 1845 Walnut Street in Philadelphia were presented with a challenge not uncommon to many building owners. They had a 32-yr-old building with a cooling plant the same
To compete in the D-B industry, it is imperative to focus on doing things dramatically different rather than how things have traditionally been done in the design-bid-build environment.
Annex J BACnet/IP devices are designed to provide the way for BACnet systems to grow beyond building-wide or campus-wide internetworks. The author discusses how these new devices can help create systems that cover entire regions and even continents. By Bill Swan