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Top 5 Considerations for Effective Sidewalk Design

Clark Nesxen

Older sidewalks often aren’t wide enough, requiring a new footprint and potential right-of-way acquisition, or existing utility poles may encroach into the sidewalk space. The surface materiality, retaining walls, utilities, and more will generally require approval by an architectural review board. Addressing Utility Conflicts.

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How the Patton Building Project Team Applied Computational Design to Overcome Aggressive Inflation

Clark Nesxen

We utilize technology to codify our design intent and interactions between elements for a specific process or to overcome a specific problem. Coming off a lengthy VE process and with the CD phase looming, we needed to find a solution quickly without sacrificing design quality. Computational design is more than a process shift.

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How to Apply WELL for Better Design Outcomes

Clark Nesxen

Applying WELL provides us an opportunity to utilize our built environment to better our physical and mental health. We seek opportunities to utilize active circulation in every building we design whether it is through engaging monumental stairs, gracious hallways, visual interest, or dynamic wayfinding.

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Mental Health and Learning Among Students with Marginalized Sociodemographic Identities

Supporting Student Success

However, the stress response undermines and utilizes limited executive cognitive functions which are necessary for learning and the demonstration of what one has learned, which can result in reduced academic performance at toxic levels (Owens et al., For these reasons, I selected this as the measure of choice utilized within my research. .

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4 Digital Marketing Channels to Harness for Student Recruitment in 2023

EAB

Today’s tech-savvy generation has long utilized the internet as a means for researching their college options and they’re using a wide array of channels to do so. Criteria used by algorithms also include less obvious technical features of your site, such as load speed and site architecture.

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Can the English Major Be Saved?

Confessions of a Community College Dean

He points to his discipline’s lack of clarity about the utility of literary research and even its subject matter (that is, how far it should stray from its traditional domain of poetry, plays, novels and literary essays). Guillory wants his readers to seriously ponder the limits of the analogy with scientific research.

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Bringing Marketing’s Vision to Life with Computational Design: 2022 Holiday Card Story

Clark Nesxen

It involves codifying information and interactions between elements for a specific process, enabling professionals in fields like architecture and engineering to design and engineer buildings more efficiently, accurately, and effectively. Computational design has the power to transform the way we approach problems and design solutions.