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Local Architect Uses Texas Civic Project to Exemplify Sustainability of Design

Tony Schmitz, vice president and senior project manager at Dallas-based Hoefer Welker, has been leading the architecture and design firm’s sustainability initiatives across all sectors. With an academic foundation in environmental design, Schmitz...

How to Make a Home More Sustainable

Goals change; countertops fabricated from imported granite and showers lined with sprays that endlessly shoot water from head to toe are no longer at...

North Little Rock Justice Center Groundbreaking

City officials, including Mayor Joe Smith, gathered in North Little Rock, Arkansas on Monday, January 13 to celebrate the groundbreaking of the new...

Las Colinas office project opens with second phase on the way

A just-completed Irving office project is the first new speculative building in that area of Las Colinas in almost two decades. T2V Properties just...

Resiliency: Future-proof building design

Resiliency has become a buzzword in sustainability circles and the green industry. Although used often, resiliency has many connotations and means...

JE Dunn wins two U.S. Army Corps of Engineers projects

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has selected Kansas City-based JE Dunn Construction as the contractor for two projects worth a total of $45 million....

A Child Care Center On Prospect Will Help A Community, And Kansas City Taxpayers Had A Hand In It

On a sunny Saturday afternoon — possibly the last warm day of the year — more than 150 people gathered near 21st and Prospect in Kansas City,...

Linwood Investors Breaks Ground on Redevelopment of Retail Strip Center in Kansas City

Linwood Investors LLC has broken ground on its $8 million redevelopment of Linwood Square, a blighted retail strip center in the Linwood-Prospect...

KC’s east side adds $8 million to Linwood Square

Linwood Investors LLC has broken ground on its $8 million redevelopment of Linwood Square, a blighted retail strip center in the Linwood-Prospect...

Built to Heal: VA Hospital Design [Q&A]

Kim-LaBroad Balances Sensitive Standard of Care with More Rigorous Approval Process for VA Healthcare Facilities What happens when you combine...

What it Takes to Build Smart Cities [Podcast]

John Ruggieri, LEED AP, vice president, director of urban design, Hoefer Welker, discusses the feasibility of smart cities and how...

KC’s east side adds $8 million to Linwood Square

Linwood Investors, LLC, will break ground on its $8 million redevelopment of Linwood Square, a blighted retail strip in the Linwood-Prospect corridor...

Platform Ventures Plans 2020 Start for 14-Story Downtown Office Project

The $70 million office project is part of a larger redevelopment plan the firm is pursuing for the block that includes converting the historic Kansas...