by ABD Engineering and Design | Acoustics
This past Saturday night we attended the 2009 AIA Grand Valley Honor Awards program at the Urban Institute of Contemporary Arts (UICA) in downtown Grand Rapids. As a Professional Affiliate Member of the AIA, our firm serves as consultants to architects. Although we...
by ABD Engineering and Design | Acoustics
Whether you're a fan or not, Obama's economic stimulus package passed recently, opening the door to gobs of government money (ie: your tax dollars at work) being pumped into the economy. So where do acoustics fit into the puzzle? Well, they're becoming a key piece. To...
by ABD Engineering and Design | Acoustics
As long as you haven't been living in a cave this past year, you've probably noticed that America's new favorite color is green. Even the "big, scary corporations," like Walmart and McDonalds, have re-worked their ad campaigns to reflect a more-green, environmentally...
by ABD Engineering and Design | Acoustics
The LEED Green Building Rating SystemTM is a voluntary, consensus-based national standard for developing high-performance, sustainable buildings. LEED was created by the U.S. Green Building Council to define "green building" through a common standard, and to promote...
by ABD Engineering and Design | Acoustics
Medlar Field at Lubrano Park in State College, Pennsylvania isn't just the first LEED Certified ballpark in the world - it's the only one (to date). Known as "The Med", the new ballpark raises the bar in "green" sports facility design in several areas: water...
