What others are saying...

Innovation is top-of-mind at ASCE. We're challenging all civil engineers to develop and apply innovative, state-of-the-art practices and technologies. Charles Pankow Foundation is an industry leader in innovative research that leads directly into practice"

Building on our investments in smart buildings and energy efficiency, our use of the EC3 tool enables us to take a data-driven approach to make decisions about construction with respect to carbon, selecting raw materials that reduce building embodied carbon emissions by as much as 30 percent."

If you want different outcomes, you have to do things differently. The Integrated Project Delivery: An Action Guide for Leaders, is a great roadmap to drive down costs, meet or exceed schedule, and maintain or improve quality and jobsite safety."

Charles Pankow Foundation assembled and guided a great team, including experts at Georgia Tech, to identify needs and shortcomings of modeling masonry in a BIM environment. BIM-M is a huge advancement for masonry."

Clark Construction is delighted to participate in ground-breaking research that supports the incorporation of high-strength reinforcing steel in the ACE Code and into practice. It's a great opportunity to help significantly improve quality, cost, and schedule all at the same time."

The design and construction industry is vital to our economy, yet our efficiency and productivity hasn't improved like other industries. Innovation has to drive those improvements. The only way we can innovate is through research to validate our ideas."

We want to build great buildings that allow excellent work environments. Performance-based design has allowed us to develop logical, safe, effective designs not riddled with unnecessary excess because of somewhat unrelated building code requirements. If we were forced to follow prescriptive building codes alone, some buildings might not be built at all, and that would be unfortunate."

We are pleased to have been a part of the first steel concrete sandwich core, now referred to as a "speed core." We are celebrating it by showing off a portion of the raw core in our lobby as "artwork." But more importantly, the savings in schedule translates to fewer carrying costs and an earlier revenue stream."

One of the ACI Building Code Committee's main goals for this code cycle is adoption of high-strength reinforcement. High-strength steel has different behavior characteristics that can only be explored and resolved through research. Charles Pankow Foundation has provided leadership and funding to get the research done. The cooperative effort between the Building Code Committee and Pankow Foundation will lead to safer, more efficient, and better performing buildings."

The work the Foundation does is noble and selfless for the betterment of our industry. Together with industry colleagues, we figure out what we can do to improve things for everybody, not just for ourselves."

If the Foundation went away tomorrow, there would be a noticeable slowdown in the innovation of technology for designers to use in buildings and it would be more expensive."