In the past few years, the cost of building green came down and awareness of its benefits shot up. With years of education and experience now in hand, professionals in the design and building industries possess the savvy to do it better, faster and cheaper than ever. Now, if only someone would build something. The same themes of weak residential demand, oversaturated … [Read more...] about Green Building: We Have the Technology, We Still Can’t Build it
Architects: Waiting for the Bounce
The steep fall from boom days appears to have reached its nadir for Nevada’s architects, but they are not yet finding a bounce up from the bottom. The barren landscape painted by a state economy no longer in free fall yet still far from recovery forces architects into unforeseen roles: marketers, net-workers and even nomads. They battle fiercely for the few projects that … [Read more...] about Architects: Waiting for the Bounce