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Design
Stories about plans and specifications, codes and compliance, engineering and architecture and all the ways in which buildings are estimated, engineered and constructed by contractors on site. |
Latest Headlines
| 10/15/08 | WTC Hub’s Complex Design Overhauled for Constructibility The most visible way the Port Authority of New York & New Jersey is trying to get a grip on the 16-acre World Trade Center redevelopment is through the simplification of Santiago Calatrava's WTC Transportation Hub |
| 10/08/08 | Convex Design Promotes Sound Diffusion The $141.7-million, 221,200-sq-ft Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, N.Y., opened on Oct. 3 after four years of construction. |
| 10/08/08 | Is Planned 1-Kilometer Tower A Stretch of the Imagination? If built as planned, Nakheel Tower in Dubai would surpass the record-tall 800-meter-plus Burj Dubai by some 200 m. |
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06/18/08 A Pavilion at Spain's Expo Zaragoza Uses Water for Walls
05/28/08 Seattle Weighs Upgrades for Unreinforced-Masonry Buildings
05/21/08 Methodology Coming Soon for Performance-Based Buildings
05/14/08 Massive Earthquake Devastates Central China
05/14/08 Rx for Texas Army Medical Site: A $2-Billion High-Tech Upgrade
05/07/08 Form-Based Codes Help Shape New Urbanism
04/30/08 Chicago's Deadly Fire Dispute Is Settled for $100 Million
04/30/08 Unified Progressive Collapse Resistance Rules Coming From DOD and GSA
04/02/08 2007 Award of Excellence Winner: Clyde N. Baker Jr.
03/26/08 Wind Dampers Lighten Up Twin High-Rises in Manila
03/06/08 ICC Hearings Vote Down Several New NIST Code Proposals
02/27/08 Third Exit Stair To Be Part Of 2009 International Building Code
01/30/08 Architectural Accent Foam Fuels Las Vegas Casino Fire
01/16/08 'Performance' Design Floodgates Open on the West Coast
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