“Tower Crews Get Royal Treatment” inaccurately references Atlantic Scaffolding, LaPorte, Texas, as the hoist provider on One World Trade Center.Atlantic Hoisting & Scaffolding LLC, Carlstadt, N.J., is providing scaffolding and hoist solutions for the project. Earlier this year, the firm was renamed Safway Atlantic LLC, after an acquisition by Safway Services LLC.Karla CuculiDirector of MarketingSafway Services LLC, Waukesha, Wis.
The article “Tower Crews Get Royal Treatment” by Nadine M. Post was very interesting with regard to the construction means and methods of One World Trade Center. I especially appreciated the visual aids that you provided (plans and isometric elevations) to facilitate understanding the process, though I suppose you were limited in what you could outline in your article.As you state in the piece, comprehensive and meticulous planning was crucial in establishing an efficient process that would achieve the schedule.Gino di Ciocco Hepworth, Di Ciocco & Associates Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Photo courtesy of the NPS Inspectors used rappelling techniques to assess repairs for the 555-ft-tall obelisk. The magnitude-5.8 earthquake that rattled most of the eastern U.S. on Aug. 25 created new cracks and spalling in the upper sections of the 555-ft, 5-in.-tall Washington Monument in the nation's capital. While the extent of quake-related damage was not a surprise, the size of several spalls was larger than expected, says a forensic engineer who conducted an inspection for the U.S. National Park Service.The survey team of Wiss, Janney, Elstner Associates Inc., Northbrook, Ill., extracted any spalls that represented a potential fall hazard
Map by ENR The 1,483-kilometer industrial corridor from Delhi to Mumbai would contain nine megazones for industry, spread out along a future high-speed freight rail. Related Links: The Ten Most Noteworthy Rail Projects: Overview and Related Stories Project: Delhi-Mumbai Industrial CorridorCost: $90 BillionThe Indian Cabinet last month approved the restructuring and financing for the future $90-billion Delhi-Mumbai Industrial Corridor, opening the way for forward for the ambitious megaproject planned along a future 1,483-kilometer high-speed-rail freight corridor. India’s rail ministry expects to invite bids this year for $2.2 billion worth of civil engineering contracts for the rail corridor’s first phase. The
Courtesy of Mahlum. DIET Hospital is designed to use nearly two-thirds less energy than most Pacific Northwest facilities. Courtesy of the Miller Hull Partnership. ENERGY MISER At 52,000 sq ft, office building is designed to use 16,000 Btu per sq ft per year. Two small projects in Washington state are emphasizing sustainable design beyond the norm. The 38,000-sq-ft Peace Island Medical Center is designed to use almost one-third the energy of a typical hospital in the Northwest. In Seattle, the 52,000-sq-ft Bullitt Center is a net-zero energy-use project that is designed to produce as much energy as it uses over
Click on each box below to view more about the project Interactive Image Map Since the dawn of the industrial age, railroads have been a vehicle for people, cargo and dreams of a better world. They remain a critical part of the transportation infrastructure of 2011. ENR has identified ten of the world’s most notable new railway construction projects based on geographic variety and cross-border economic impact. The projects include Angola’s Benguela Railway, China’s proposed line in Iran from Tehran west to Khosravi, China’s own Harbin-Dalian High-Speed Rail Line and China’s Lanzhou-Chongqing Rail Line. There are also reports on a
Related Links: DOT Secretary LaHood's statement Gov. Christie's statement ENR Oct. 13, 2010 story: Blurry Tunnel Vision Oct. 7, 2010, enr.com story: "Citing Fears of Cost Overruns, N.J. Gov. Scraps Trans-Hudson Tunnel" In a deal that closes a key chapter in a long-running dispute between the U.S. Dept. of Transportation and New Jersey, the state will have to repay only $95 million of the $271 million that DOT had disbursed for early phases of a commuter-rail tunnel that New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (R) cancelled last year.The nine-mile-long Access to the Region’s Core (ARC) tunnel was to run under the
McCoy Architects LLC Architects' rendering of Islamic Center of Murfreesboro shows plan for conventional mosque. The Islamic Center of Murfreesboro has broken ground on a new mosque after delays by a lawsuit, arson of construction equipment, protests over the project and contractors hesitant to submit bids.The Center, which operates in a small building in the downtown area, held a ceremonial groundbreaking Sept. 28 and work started the next day on the 12,000-sq-ft first phase of what is planned as a 52,000-sq-ft complex.S&A Constructors LLC of Nashville is the contractor; the architect is McCoy Architects LLC of Lexington, Ky.“This has been
Map by ENR The North-South Transnational Corridor project aims to be the most direct link for freight shipments from Russia or Central Asia to the Persian Gulf. Related Links: The Ten Most Noteworthy Rail Projects: Overview and Related Stories Project: North South Transnational CorridorCost: $1.4 billionConstruction period: 2007-2012 Central Asian nations have been slow to establish rail links with their neighbors to the south for numerous reasons. During the era when the Central Asian nations were part of the Soviet Union, all their rail lines headed north to Russia, their major trading partner.Of the five Central Asian nations, Kazakhstan occupies
Related Links: The Ten Most Noteworthy Rail Projects: Overview and Related Stories Project: Tehran-Khosravi Rail LinkCost: $2 billionConstruction period: Unknown China, which wants to create more robust rail corridors across Asia, is offering to build a $2-billion freight rail line in Iran. If continuous railway corridors were in place and, standard-gauge track installed from end to end, containerized freight could travel from China to Europe much more rapidly by rail than it does by ship, the Chinese claim.In September 2010, Liu Zhijun, China's railway minister, and Hamid Behbahani, Iran’s minister of roads and transportation, signed an agreement that calls for building
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