With its ability to create shallow waves of great length in a laboratory flume, a new tsunami simulator in the U.K. is helping seismic engineers at University College’s EPICentre, London, compute more accurate structural impact models than previously were possible.
Tasked with replacing three Toronto hospitals with one, the PCL Constructors Canada-led team set out to deliver a facility that would reflect the world-class city it serves.
The team for Stanford University’s $438-million central plant replacement, designed to be 70% more energy-efficient, tiptoed around the 25,000 people who use the 8,000-acre campus daily.
The new campus of the American University of Central Asia, located outside Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, exemplifies how the modern world is transforming the capital of this former Soviet republic.
Watershed Management Group, a Tucson-based nonprofit, initiated a research project with the ultimate goal of convincing Arizona building officials to accept non-code-compliant composting toilets—critical to potable water conservation in buildings—as an alternative to an onsite wastewater system.
A research team at the University of Colorado in Boulder is using liquid crystal technology, widely known for its use in smartphones and flat-panel HD televisions, to create a transparent, solid film for windows that could significantly improve energy efficiency in buildings.
A top U.S. engineer has called for building codes to include limits on carbon dioxide released by the production of construction materials to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions.
In what one official termed "our big experiment," the Obama administration convened an unusual four-hour closed session at the White House on March 9 for top industry and federal managers to figure out how to push sustainability into federal infrastructure procurement.