This week, architects, engineers, designers, technologists, and builders will come together for Chicago Innovate 2026, a four day event exploring how new technologies, materials, and ways of working are reshaping the AEC industry. Forefront Founding Partner Josh Dortzbach will join the symposium on September 25 as a panelist for the Advanced Materials + Construction discussion. His presentation, From Digital to Physical: Engineering a New Way to Build, explores an idea that h

Columbus’s first mass timber building and, at 13 stories, the tallest mass timber student housing structure in the U.S., has topped out, a construction milestone.

One of the most rewarding parts of working on the Atrium Club at 25 E Washington was that the project was happening inside the same building where our Forefront office is located. It gave me a unique opportunity to watch the work progress firsthand and, now that it is complete, to actually use a space that I helped create.