Acoustic panels reduce excessive barking noise in dog shelters, keeping animals calmer

Acoustic panels reduce excessive barking noise in dog shelters, keeping animals calmer

Dog kennels and shelters can be noisy places. The normally hard surfaces used for walls, floors, and ceilings can create an echo chamber where one dog’s barking can reverberate throughout the entire facility.
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Henry Ford Health selects firms for Detroit hospital campus expansion

Henry Ford Health has selected the architectural, engineering, and construction management firms to design and construct the transformative hospital campus expansion in Detroit, Michigan, to spread over more than 92,903 m2 (one million sf).
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Renovation adds touristic flair to prestigious Kentucky horse farm

A farm in Goshen, Kentucky, has been renovated into a visitor destination, located on a 266-ha (658-acre) agrarian landscape, which is noted for the generations of world-class racehorses raised on the site. The new space has been transformed to experience the state’s traditions of horses, food, agriculture, and bourbon.
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Considerations for fire protection in specifying metal building systems