Image from Callison The Seattle office of Callison designed the recently finished 65-story Lotte Center Hanoi in Vietnam. The architectural giant was bought earlier this year by Arcadis.

5 tools needed to run successful meetings
It is important to come prepared for possible situations and lead the group through the meeting before it becomes a waste of time.

By ERICA LOYND
DLR Group

Why tomorrow’s engineer needs a different education
The main reason college students go into other fields is they view engineering education as a soulless sorting process.

By DAVID E. GOLDBERG and MARK SOMERVILLE
Special to the Journal

D/B competitions: a high-stakes poker game you can’t win
If the design/build competition process becomes predominant, it will financially cripple many architectural and engineering firms.

By STEVE MCNUTT
NAC Architecture

Electronic data loss can become a shocking surprise
Companies can get into trouble if they don’t properly preserve and collect electronic documents.

By JASON VELASCO
Lighthouse eDiscovery

Commissioning is key to a smooth running central utility plant

With central utility plants, the devil is in the details. These great systems can be felled by a subtle misstep somewhere in the plant, in the distribution system, or in any one of the myriad systems it supports.

By BRUCE A. PITTS and BRUCE J. HIGGS
Wood Harbinger

Lean design shines in tricky healthcare projects

The VA is developing a new model clinic that borrows designs from Group Health Cooperative’s Puyallup Medical Center and refines them with the help of clinic staff and users.

By DOUG GROVE
CollinsWoerman

Is Seattle’s housing market emulating the ‘San Francisco Death Spiral’?
The Seattle City Council wants to tax new housing in an effort to lower housing prices, but that will just lead to rampant housing inflation.

By ROGER VALDEZ
Smart Growth Seattle

Energy-efficient design goes to school

A number of new K-12 schools in Western Washington have impressive energy performance, yet they don’t sacrifice factors such as ventilation and daylight.

By PHILIP RIEDEL
NAC Architecture