DESIGNING OUR WEST COAST OF FLORIDA’S FINEST STRUCTURES December 1, 2017 By Katharine Logan Humans are visual creatures, and architects are particularly visual humans first the drawings and then the photographs are often mistaken for a building’s whole story. But the experience of architecture is more powerful and subtle than eyes alone perceive. Especially in…
DESIGNING OUR WEST COAST OF FLORIDA’S FINEST STRUCTURES November 2017 Competition coordinated by Madeline Crotts SRQ Magazine proudly presents Building of the Year, a competition celebrating the new commercial, mixed-used and public buildings, enhancing the skyline along the Gulf Coast. Judged on design concept, function and usage, integrity of design, creativity and features, we recognize…
NATIONAL DESIGN FIRM DELIVERS RISE ON APACHE, ITS TENTH URBAN RESIDENTIAL COMPLEX COMPLETED WITH CA STUDENT LIVING August 29, 2017 By Sonja Bochart, IIDA, LEED AP BD&C, WELL AP,principal at Shepley Bulfinch PHOENIX, ARIZ. – August 28, 2017 – Shepley Bulfinch, a national architecture firm known for design excellence and innovation with offices in Boston, Houston…
NORWOOD, MASS. BREWERY DOUBLES PRODUCTION CAPACITY AND ADDS TAPROOM June 21, 2017 Kaplan Construction, a WBE general contractor and construction management firm providing comprehensive building programs across Greater Boston, has completed an expansion to Castle Island Brewing Co., which originally opened in December 2015. The Norwood, Mass., brewery needed to double its production capacity and add…
24 AFFORDABLE AND MARKET RATE TOWNHOUSES WILL CREATE A SUSTAINABLE URBAN LIVING COMMUNITY May 24, 2017 BOSTON – May 15, 2017 – Kaplan Construction, a WBE general contractor and construction management firm providing comprehensive building programs across Greater Boston, announced today that it is constructing a sustainable urban living community at 143-171 Hyde Park Ave…
THE FIRST ISSUE IS DESCRIBING A PRODUCT’S NOISE TO CONSUMERS IN A MEANINGFUL WAY April 1, 2017 By: Steve Africk It has been said that noise is among the top five factors in a shopper’s decision to buy an appliance. This consumer sensitivity, and the increasing competition from Europe where strict noise standards reign,…
UPGRADES TO WALLS, CEILINGS, AND FLOORS CAN MUTE DISRUPTIVE NOUSE AND VIBRATION Spring 2017 By: Terence Tyson, PE, CDT principal consultant in acoustics, Acentech FITNESS CENTERS are valued amenities in many office, residential and mixed-use buildings, but they can also create noise and vibrations that make them less than ideal neighbors. Can a fitness center…
WHAT DEVELOPERS CAN DO TO ASSESS AND MITIGATE GROUND-BORNE NOISE & VIBRATION IMPACTS Fall 2016 By: Jeffrey A. Zapfe, Ph.D., president, Acentech WHILE TRANSPORTATION systems are the arteries and veins of a city, when it comes to new development, their presence can cause a developer’s heart to skip a beat. One particularly significant challenge relates…
DEVELOPMENT MAGAZINE / NAIOP: 4 STORIES Acentech collaborated with Baker Design Group to provide acoustical design for TripAdvisor’s new 282,000-square-foot global headquarters in Needham, Massachusetts. Their work focused on a four-story atrium designed to accommodate 1,100 employees for company meetings as well as smaller groups for dining, casual meetings and amplified and recorded presentations. The mixed-use…
LET’S REVIEW THE BASIC CONCEPTS OF ACOUSTICS AND THE DESIGN OF QUIET PRODUCTS September 1, 2015 By: Steve Africk After a long and arduous design process, it can be frustrating to learn that a product has a “noise problem.” Perhaps Marketing has determined that the product may not fare well against the competition, especially internationally…