Spotlights

Wolff wins BSA Women in Design Award

Lynn Wolff, FASLA, principal and president of Copley Wolff Design Group is one of three recipients of the 2009 Women in Design Award of Exce...

G. Greene completes Yawkey Family Inn on Kent St. and receives AGC Build New England Merit Award

G. Greene Construction recently completed the highly anticipated Yawkey Family Inn on Kent St. The project entailed an 11,000 s/f gut renova...

Spectrum IT installs security systems for four Blackstone Properties

Spectrum Integrated Technologies (Spectrum IT), the security and telecom division of J. & M. Brown Co. Inc., has completed the design and in...

The Boston real estate landscape in a flat economy in a flat world

Just when you thought you would scream if another person trotted out their list of the three most important things in real estate, as if, du...

American Window Film: Energy conservation window films qualify for LEED credits

The stock market "roller coaster" ride we experienced a year ago seems to have settled down and indicators suggest we are on the road to rec...

Kaydon Group ranked 172 of 500 for fastest growing companies

The Kaydon Group of Companies earned the prestigious rank of 172/500 in the 2009 Inc. 500 annual ranking of the fastest-growing private comp...

Achieving a successful project - Selection of the right design team and general contractors

In today's marketplace buildings are not only designed to meet building code requirements, but also sustainability as required to achieve LE...

EnviroVantage completes the removal of lead paint from balconies and fire escapes at Harvard Medical School

Harvard Medical School was established in 1782. The beautiful historic building includes several steel balconies and two fire escapes with i...

Leading without LEED: Practical and cost effective approaches to a sustainable campus

The Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) process has been generating significant buzz in the architecture, engineering, and ...

Question of the month: What is low impact development and what are some of the benefits of it?

What if you could simultaneously reduce development and infrastructure costs, conserve and protect the environment, increase the marketabili...