Juneteenth is an opportunity to reflect on the still far-reaching effects of slavery in the United States – from the disproportional rate of Black people in prisons to bias in the building code. Today, Sarah Wicker, our Director of Research, discusses her team’s efforts to address these political, cultural and socioeconomic inequalities from a data-driven […]
Recently, Kristin Fisher at CNN published, “Satellite Pollution is Threatening to Alter Our View of the Night Sky” describing the phenomenon that 1 out of every 15 points of light in the night sky in less than a decade will be a moving satellite. CRTKL’s Orlando Orozco, Associate in the Digital Transformation Group and astrophotographer, […]
ELEVATION: Raising the Bar for CRTKL’s Digital Innovation Elevation is a collection of stories, thought leadership, and unique experiences from CRTKL’s Design Technology Group (DTG) on the frontlines of architecture, engineering, and design (AEC). Today, in this video from CRTKL’s Chris Groves, Information Security and Data Privacy Manager, we get the inside scoop on digital […]
ELEVATION: Raising the Bar for CRTKL’s Digital Innovation Elevation is a collection of stories, thought leadership, and unique experiences from CRTKL’s Design Technology Group (DTG) on the frontlines of architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC). Today, off the back of the MCAA (The Mechanical Contractors Association of America) MEP (Mechanical, Electrical, and Plumbing) Conference, we spoke […]
A Conversation with Dr. Velma Jackman, Associate Principal and Amy Mizell, Senior Associate on the importance of healthcare staff in collaboration with UC Davis Health. Tell me a bit about our recent work with the UC Davis Health system. Velma Jackman: UC Davis Health is a healthcare system in the Sacramento area affiliated with UC […]
As our global society begins to recover from the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, many big-box online retailers are adaptively reusing shopping malls that buckled due to e-commerce and mandatory lockdowns as fulfillment centers for online sales. This current practice parallels a Droneport concept developed by Brendan O’Grady and Hernán Molina in 2016—when they envisioned […]
The Knowledge & Information Management (KIM) team is comprised of Catherine Blake, Samantha Cross and Quen Foster-Patterson (bios below). This piece also features former CRTKL employee Iva Groudkova, research librarian. See their Architecture, Race and Culture Resources Guide and Architecture, Sexuality and Culture Resources Guide for more of their work. What are the primary functions […]
What is Sip and Sketch? James Thor, CRTKL Los Angeles: Sip and Sketch originally began as an after-work event (pre-COVID, of course) where we’d hang out and paint while we drank wine, ate snacks and socialized. When we started working from home, I missed that weekly morale boost and wanted to bring the event online. […]
‘On the Ground with CRTKL’ is a three-part series capturing perspectives from across CallisonRTKL’s global offices and exploring how we are responding to COVID-19 locally, tactically and personally. In this final chapter, leaders from our EMEA (Europe, Middle East and Africa) teams share their path to recovery and resiliency. Rendering: Saadiyat Grove – The inclusive […]
‘On the Ground with CRTKL’ is a three-part series capturing perspectives from across CallisonRTKL’s global offices and exploring how we are responding to COVID-19 locally, tactically and personally. In this edition, US leaders share the surprising solutions they have found in the face of an ever-evolving world. Read part 1 here. Matt Billerbeck: Human-Centric Design […]