Rendering courtesy of U.S. General Services Administration New downtown Los Angeles U.S. courthouse draws on appropriations from 2001 through 2005. Courtesy of U.S. General Services Administration New building is 550,000 sq ft, compared with earlier plan of more than 1 million sq ft. Related Links: GSA Details Plans for Downtown Los Angeles ENR Blog: Capitol Hill Flap Over Planned L.A. Federal Courthouse (Nov. 2011) After false starts and one full stop over the past 11 years, a new federal courthouse in downtown Los Angeles now seems to be on its way to becoming a reality. The General Services Administration has
Florida Power & Light on Dec. 19 will issue a request for proposals to develop one or both parts of a planned 700-mile, multibillion-dollar natural gas pipeline, FPL said Dec. 10.
ASHRAE and the American Society for Healthcare Engineering have released for public review a proposed standard for the design, construction and operation of green health-care facilities. ASHRAE/ASHE Standard 189.3P: Standard for the Design, Construction and Operation of Sustainable, High-Performance Health-Care Facilities is open for public comment through Jan. 21. The draft standard contains procedures, methods and documentation requirements for the design, construction and operation of sustainable health-care buildings. It would apply to patient-care and related support areas within health-care facilities, including hospitals, nursing homes and licensed outpatient facilities, according to ASHRAE.Among other things, the standard covers site sustainability, water-use efficiency,
Related Links: Green Building Information Gateway Energy Star Sustainability leaders are praising a new search engine for green-building data, calling it a crucial tool for making informed design decisions and crafting government policy. The Green Building Information Gateway (gbig.org) aggregates and assesses design and performance data for thousands of buildings worldwide, collected under the popular green-building rating system called LEED. The site is free to users."GBIG organizes and enhances transparency of building-sustainability efforts," says Barry Hooper, green-building program coordinator, San Francisco Dept. of the Environment. "As a transparency tool, GBIG supports effective decisions and competition among real estate owners, enhances
Investigating safety concerns posed by the $4.8-billion Grand Renaissance Dam in Ethiopia, a joint committee comprising representatives from Egypt, Ethiopia and Sudan, among others, recently made its last trip to the hydropower-plant site before compiling its report.
The failure of bolts anchoring suspender rods likely sent tons of precast concrete ceiling panels crashing onto the roadway in a tunnel in central Japan on Dec. 2.
Courtesy of the Living Building Challenge Reporting of building product contents and their impact on health is gaining traction. Related Links: U.S. Green Building Council Cradle to Cradle Product Innovation Institute Cradle to Cradle Product Innovation Institute Cradle to Cradle Product Innovation Institute Thanks to a $3-million grant from Google Inc., the U.S. Green Building Council plans to build a body of scientific evidence around the content of green building products and materials. USGBC says the research will make it easier to have discussions with interested parties, including opponents of the expanded eco-friendly product credits in the proposed update of
Related Links: Forest City Ratner Cos. Skanska USA After nearly a year of negotiations with the union locals and two months of prototyping in the factory, the developer of the $4.9-billion Atlantic Yards sports village in Brooklyn, N.Y., has given the green light for what is planned as the world's tallest modular building, the 322-ft B2 residential tower.The project is also the catalyst for the formation of a modular division within the Building and Construction Trades Council of Greater New York, which represents local unions. In a major departure from the norm, the trade council's new division will allow crews
Walsh Group, Chicago, appears to be the big winner—leading one design-build team and part of a public-private partnership (P3)—in bids for two new, 2,500-ft-long cable-stayed bridges across the Ohio River in Kentucky and Indiana.
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