Noise can impact the health and well-being of building occupants, and acoustic performance is a critical component of overall indoor environmental quality. In addition, investing in acoustic ...

In the U.S., mass timber has been quickly gaining popularity as a building material—and for good reason. Mass timber can deliver a slew of benefits, chief among them the environmental impact. A ...

Architectural Testing, Inc. (ATI), which tests building products, is investing in the trend. Last week they opened a new testing facility among the Amish farms of York, Pa., for testing of complex ...

Despite these diverse expectations, it’s only recently that formal acoustic standards moved toward the head of the class in school building, architects and acousticians say. Too often it is seen as a ...

Seattle’s new City Hall and Justice Center, touted as cutting edge and environmentally friendly, are suffering from a series of defects that range from serious to merely annoying. Boilers have ...

The increase of workload for professionally qualified fire engineers acting as expert witnesses on civil cases has shifted from discernible to tangible in recent times. This is great for our ...

Whether you’ve got a shouty neighbor or a cackling coworker, the noise of others is hard to avoid. Tomás Méndez Echenagucia is enabling buildings to do more to help. An assistant professor at the ...