Adaptive Reuse

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Education

BIG Rigs Housing Solution

Urban Riggers uses stacked, floating shipping containers to demonstrate an economical solution to the urgent need for affordable student housing in the heart of the dense, urban...
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Adaptive Reuse

A Renovation for the Ages

CRL glass railing systems help merge the old with the new at Moynihan Train Hall—New York City’s awe-inspiring transit hub.
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HVAC

A Heating Renaissance at Calgary’s Residential Conversion

An undesirable, vacant 38-year-old office building is reimagined and now features the city’s first office-to-residential space conversion with new high-efficiency condensing...
Biocement is laid in a stair-stepped pattern.
Adaptive Reuse

Biocement

Biomason's Biocement is formed through multiple patented processes using bacteria that are introduced in a mix of gravel, sand, and nutrients to form it. Biocement forms around...
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Windows/Skylights

New Life

“Conversion” may become the buzzword that defines construction in 2020. It certainly did here at the Elementary School Vřesovice in the Czech Republic, which involved the reconstruction...