International News
Leveraging BIM in the Prefabrication Space
By improving project visibility and coordination between the trades, 3D models can reduce the risk of design errors and save offsite construction firms time and money. Until fairly recently, prefabrication and modular construction carried...
18th June 2018
Timber Modular Hotel Goes up on Berlin Shopping Centre Car Park
In what’s being hailed as a world first and a feat of creative urban densification, a 151-room, modular timber hotel is now being craned onto the unused upper floor of a multi-storey car park at Berlin’s Ring-Center 2 shopping mall, on...
15th June 2018
Downtown’s New McDonald’s Shows off its Cross-Laminated Timber Design
A far cry from the kitschy memorabilia of the Rock ’n’ Roll-themed building it replaces, the essentially all-new design of River North’s flagship McDonalds at 600 N. Clark Street is finally starting to come together. At its heart is an...
15th June 2018
Timber Buildings Taking Shape as Construction Sector Expands
Lendlease is to construct a new timber office tower at Barangaroo South as demand for the environmentally-friendly properties gains traction. The building will be known as Daramu House, which means “tree house” in the aboriginal Sydney...
9th June 2018
PCL Wins Green Building Award for Humber River Hospital
When Humber River Hospital (HRH) opened its doors near Keele and the 401 in 2015, the massive facility became North America’s first fully digital hospital. Designed by HDR Architects and built by PCL, the 14-storey, 1.8 million square foot...
8th June 2018
