Design firm leader brings extensive military and multidisciplinary experience to the role but also aims to preserve what's kept it successful over 107 years.
After an early morning structural collapse of the 447-ft-long, three-span steel K-frame structure sent a bus and several passenger cars plummeting approximately 100 ft into a ravine below and injuring 10 people, Fern Hollow was suddenly in the national spotlight—both as a source of relief that a more serious tragedy had been averted and as a symbol of the nation’s deteriorating transportation infrastructure.
Design is underway for the $1.7-billion Bally's Chicago gaming complex-resort project for entertainment firm Bally’s Corp., which received site plan approval in May.
The article “Walsh-Granite Lawsuit Against HDR Cited Standard of Care and Quantities” (ENR 2-6/13, p. 24-25) by Richard Korman contains false and misleading statements regarding me and my firm, O’Connell & Lawrence Inc.
For the team executing the $450-milllion Hubbard Center addition at Children’s Hospital & Medical Center in Omaha, it was all about connections—from innovative interior and exterior lighting design linking facilities and users, to the state's first use of a more collaborative team delivery approach that saved $50 million.
With the project team performing under a national spotlight, collaboration proved key to the rapid restoration of collapsed span, a critical local crossing.