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🏗️ Happy Construction Appreciation Week!
Today we're highlighting Ep. 94 of the Detailed Podcast, where Cherise Lakeside sits down with Woodblock Architecture on the I&E Construction Headquarters. It's a building company's own home, and the episode gives the credit to the people on site.
In this clip, David Hardister is asked what makes design-build work. The answer isn't a drawing or a detail. It's a good superintendent and a good project manager with boots on the ground. Someone willing to call when they see something that isn't quite right, instead of forging ahead and creating a bigger problem. Maybe yell a little. Then solve it together.
Because the alternative is a crew that keeps building and building, until the job is built into a corner. Seeing ahead and asking the right question is a skill, and it belongs to the people on site.
The project honors them too. I&E Construction is a builder, and this is their own headquarters, an old 1970s nursing school reworked through design-build with a reclaimed courtyard and nail-laminated timber throughout. A building company's home, made by the trades that make everyone else's.
To every superintendent, PM, foreman, and crew who catch the problem before it gets built: thank you.
Watch or Listen today: https://www.arcat.com/podcast/114
09/09/2026
LIVE from AIA 2026 with Jakob Rope Systems
In this bonus episode of Detailed, we share a LIVE conversation from the 2026 AIA Conference on Architecture & Design in San Diego, CA.
Cherise is joined by Heshan Rankothgedera of Sales and Project Management at Jakob Rope Systems. Heshan demonstrates how Jakob Rope System’s over 100-years of technical expertise is present in every product they offer, whether in safety solutions, green wall systems, or custom structural elements.
Listen today: https://www.arcat.com/podcast/251
09/09/2026
In honor of the NFL season kicking off tonight, we are highlighting Detailed Podcast Episode 41 covering the Kraft Group Building at Gillette Stadium, home of the New England Patriots.
The Patriots open the season in Seattle in a Super Bowl rematch. Back in Foxborough, the building attached to their stadium has a story of its own.
Cherise sits down with Michael Schroeder, Partner at SGA, who has led the firm's Virtual Design and Construction arm since 2014. The Kraft Group Building is a four-story, 120,000 square foot addition to the existing stadium, designed for the Patriots, International Forest Products, and their parent owners, the Kraft Group. It is phase one of a larger multipurpose building, and it was designed, built, and fully operational in one year.
Michael gets into what a speed-to-market timeline does to coordination, what it takes to build against an existing structure, and the management tools SGA used to keep delivery on pace.
Listen today: https://www.arcat.com/podcast/42
09/08/2026
Drawing is one skill every architect carries from school into practice, and the tools behind it are changing.
ARCAT is sponsoring "A Fine Line: Drawing Methods for Students and Emerging Professionals," a free Architectural Record webinar on September 22 at 2:00 PM ET.
Drawings communicate instructions for building, and on site the job is fidelity to those documents. But that is only one kind of representation. Sketches help you iterate. Renderings sell an idea to a client. Diagrams explain. Measured drawings record history. Each one asks for a different technique, and digital modeling, an ever growing list of software, and now AI have widened the toolkit further.
Andrew Holder, principal of LADG and chair of graduate programs at Pratt, joins Manuel Cordero and Galen Pardee, principals of COPA, to walk through their own approaches to representation, take stock of where the field is heading, and offer practical advice on how students can improve. Moderated by AR managing editor Leopoldo Villardi.
Free to attend. 1 AIA LU/Elective and 0.1 ICC CEU.
Register for free today: https://continuingeducation.bnpmedia.com/architect/courses/multi-sponsor/a-fine-line-drawing-methods-for-students-and-emerging-professionals
09/08/2026
We hope everyone had a great Labor Day Weekend!
Labor Day honors the people who built this country, so today we wanted to highlight an episode about a building where they did exactly that.
Episode #175 of the Detailed Podcast features Cherise Lakeside with Justin Crane, FAIA, and Stefanie Greenfield, AIA, both Principals at CambridgeSeven, discussing The Foundry in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Built in 1890 for the Blake and Knowles Steam Pump Company, it spent a century as a place where people made things by hand. Nearly 70 percent of the original fabric was preserved in the renovation, so the work that happened there is still visible in the building itself. Today it holds a makerspace, a metalsmith and textile workshop, a culinary kitchen, and a public theater.
Watch or listen today: https://www.arcat.com/podcast/229
Happy National Skyscraper Day! 🏙️
Today we wanted to highlight one of the more ambitious towers we have covered on the Detailed Podcast.
Episode 74 is all about TSX Broadway, the $2.5 billion, 46-story redevelopment in the heart of Times Square. It is the largest project in Mancini Duffy's 100-plus year history and took seven years to pull off.
In this clip, the team talks through the Tempo by Hilton inside the building and the corner guest rooms with a direct view of the ball drop. Cherise Lakeside is joined by William Mandara Jr., AIA, Joseph R. Levi, and J. Benjamin Alper, PE, SE.
Watch or listen to the full episode today: https://www.arcat.com/podcast/84
09/02/2026
LIVE from AIA 2026 with Sugatsune
This week we continue the Summer Series of Bonus Episodes from the 2026 AIA Conference on Architecture & Design in San Diego, CA.
Cherise is joined by Tenzin Youdon, Architectural Project Manager at Sugatsune America. Tenzin illustrates the importance of communication from design through construction between all reps, and shines a light on some of Sugatsune’s design-focused products in premium hardware.
Listen today: https://www.arcat.com/podcast/249
08/31/2026
We're excited to welcome Victory Bear Products to ARCAT!
Victory Bear Products is a division of Fukuvi USA, Inc., part of Fukuvi Chemical Industry Co., Ltd., the largest plastic extrusion manufacturer of construction and industrial products in Japan. With extrusion molding experience dating back to 1953, they bring more than 65 years of profile extruding expertise to every project.
Their capabilities include coextrusion of rigid and soft plastics, PVC and acrylic coextrusion for superior appearance, wood-grain and embossed patterns, secondary processing, and engineering and manufacturing support. Backed by Fukuvi engineers who respond quickly to customer requests and troubleshoot challenges as they arise.
You can now find their product information on arcat.com.
Explore their listing today: https://www.arcat.com/downloads/victory-bear-53566-victory/catalog/14455/238421
08/27/2026
Partner Spotlight: Gemini
University of Notre Dame Stadium | Notre Dame, Indiana
The Campus Crossroads Addition and Stadium Renovation was the largest single project Notre Dame had undertaken in 175 years, and the goal went beyond adding space. The design team wanted fans to feel the 1930s Rockne era as they moved through the stadium, which meant signage that could carry history without looking dated.
Chicago-based Cardosi Kiper Design Group led the placemaking and wayfinding phase, partnering with 12 fabrication firms and Gemini to bring the concept to life across more than 4,000 signs and 750 thematic graphic elements. A modernized version of the Statendam typeface set the tone, executed in cast bronze and aluminum letters, fabricated and flat cut metal, and precision tooled bronze plaques.
The details show the range. At the Celebration Entrance, custom 5 inch cast letters with a 30 degree angled face project down toward viewers below, spelling out the University's five core pillars. At the student gates, 10 inch cast prismatic letters finished in gold leaf match the famous Golden Dome. In the accolades area, precision tooled plaques reproduce letter strokes as small as a quarter inch, chosen over cast plaques for a living display that adds new honorees year after year.
Project team: Cardosi Kiper Design Group (signage design), Gemini (letters, logos, and plaques)
ARCAT is proud to partner with manufacturers like Gemini who help translate history and tradition into architecture that lasts.
Check out their ARCAT profile today: https://www.arcat.com/company/gemini-inc-32715
08/26/2026
LIVE from AIA 2026 with James Hardie Building Products
In this bonus episode of Detailed, we share a LIVE conversation from the 2026 AIA Conference on Architecture & Design in San Diego, CA.
Cherise is joined by Mike Goodman, Director of Single-Family New Construction Segment at James Hardie Building Products. Mike highlights the wide range of high-performance fiber cement and fiber gypsum building solutions for both internal and external building construction applications.
Listen today: https://www.arcat.com/podcast/247
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