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Towering Setting for New Brooklyn K-5 School

DIGroup Architecture (DIG) is celebrating the completion of its first New York City School project, located in the borough of Brooklyn. P.S. 748, the Albee Square Campus, was constructed in conjunction with Nehal Contracting of Nanuet, N.Y., as well as the New York City School Construction Authority. 

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Major Science Building Project Tops Out at ASU

Designer SmithGroup and general contractor McCarthy Building Companies have reached a construction milestone on the $185 million Interdisciplinary Science and Technology Building 12 (ISTB12) at Arizona State University’s (ASU) Polytechnic campus, located in the eastern Phoenix neighborhood of Mesa.

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Enhancing Student Well-Being with Connections to Nature

U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy has called the increase in youth mental health needs the defining health crisis of our time. Because educators are with children for more than a third of their waking hours, they can have an enormous positive impact on children’s mental health and well-being. But what is often overlooked is the significant impact well-designed school buildings and their surroundings can also have on student well-being.  

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