Day: March 13, 2017

Sustainable Building Design

The main objectives of sustainable design are to reduce, or completely avoid, depletion of critical resources like energy, water, land, and raw materials; prevent environmental degradation caused by facilities and infrastructure throughout their life cycle; and create built environments that are livable, comfortable …

Fitting a Square Building

Like many older U.S. cities, our nation’s capital infrastructure dates back to the early 1800s and their storm and wastewater treatment system is no longer able to accommodate heavy rain events, causing overflows of untreated waste into nearby rivers and streams. Architus’s work was recently featured in Point of Beginning magazine that explains how our use of virtual construction and geospatial technologies are allowing us to place two 160-foot-tall industrial facilities and related equipment underground into tunnel termination shafts to modernize the city’s storm and wastewater infrastructure and effectively reduce overflows.

Interventional Radiology Project

The $2.5 million two-story 4,000-square-foot addition to the existing hospital will provide expanded Interventional Radiology services on the second floor with a new interventional imaging room as well as associated control, patient holding, exam, storage and system electronics spaces. Work also includes the renovation of 700 square feet of existing space and construction of the first floor shell space for future use. With the colder New England temps here, the Architus team is hoping for a mild winter to ensure efficient facilitation of the foundation and structural steel construction. Project completion is anticipated in August 2016.

Groundbreaking Women in Construction

Four-hundred women from construction companies around the country gathered for this incredible two-day event in San Francisco, California.The main theme of the conference was the importance of diversity and inclusion to a company’s success. Event speakers focused on the financial power of diversity and how research demonstrates that companies with greater diversity through the ranks are more profitable. Other topics included closing the gender pay gap, industry retention and advancement, effective negotiating, succeeding through failure, pushing past your limits, and communicating strengths.