This innovative project addresses slope stability challenges in Singapore’s urban landscape with a first-of-its-kind application that stabilizes a 22-meter-high slope with a history of failures.
A focus on quality and maintaining a strict 35.5-month schedule pushed the joint venture contractor on the Gaylord Pacific project to seek out innovations.
Working on any historic building requires time and patience, says Shawn Basler, co-CEO and executive director of Perkins Eastman. Case in point: It took 11 years to turn a 120-year-old McKim, Mead & White-designed former bank into the Fifth Avenue Hotel.