Photo by Andrew Rugge / Arch Photo Photo by Andrew Rugge / Arch Photo Related Links: Best of the Best 2014 Among the many structures destroyed by Superstorm Sandy were dozens of public lifeguard and comfort stations at several New York City beaches. This $106-million project consisted of the design and deployment of 35 steel-framed, waterproof modular structures to 15 sites in Queens, Brooklyn and Staten Island within a five-month period.To meet this aggressive schedule, each building was constructed as a factory-assembled module. A flexible design accommodates various interior arrangements, including comfort and lifeguard stations. The modules, which are generally
Related Links: Best of the Best 2014 Best Overall Intermountain Project of 2014 NREL Energy Lab Could Help Expand U.S. Power Grid The 148,000-sq-ft Energy Innovation Laboratory houses Idaho National Laboratory's research and development programs. The three-story EIL provides reconfigurable, open-floor lab space and state-of-the-art equipment to encourage collaboration among INL researchers, students and partners who are working to modernize America's nuclear-energy systems. It also provides a venue for visiting scientists to work with INL researchers and engineers on innovative solutions to challenges in advanced clean energy.The EIL project team initially sought to achieve LEED Gold, but close collaboration with
Courtesy Canton, Mass., PD Youth hockey team evacuated Canton, Mass., rink 15 seconds before section of roof collapsed. The harsh winter of 2015 is taking a toll on the roofs of New England.At about 7:15 a.m. on Feb. 28, the Norwood Nuggets youth hockey team were filing onto the Metropolis Ice Hockey Rink in Canton, Mass., for practice when they heard a snap, followed by another. Immediately, a coach yelled for everyone to leave the ice and exit the building. About 15 seconds later, a portion of the roof fell.A blast of air pressure propelled a coach across the rink,
Image Courtesy of Middle East Development LLC. Construction of a $1-billion, 540-meter-tall tower in Casablanca, Morocco, is tentatively planned to commence in June. The planned tower would be tallest in Africa. Construction of a $1-billion, 540-meter-tall tower in Casablanca, Morocco, is tentatively planned to commence in June, bringing the prospect for superseding South Africa’s 223-m Carlton Centre in Johannesburg city as the tallest structure in Africa.However, project manager Amedee Santalo says the developer, Middle East Development LLC, has yet to put final touches on a deal with the Moroccan government, and with the tower being such a huge project, “it
Rendering by Safdie Architects Waterfall will be fed by rainwater draining from the atrium roof of the indoor garden. Rendering by Safdie Architects Glass-covered centerpiece of Changi Airport, which will link terminals and other services, will be both a retail mall and a public attraction. The architect for the 1.3-million-sq-ft landside centerpiece of Singapore's Changi Airport—a combination mall and glass-covered public garden—decided to take advantage of the area's daily rainfall by designing a roof that will drain water into the center of the indoor garden, creating a 40-m-tall waterfall that will also help cool the voluminous space, says Safdie Architects.The
Photo by Peter Reina for ENR With its truncated concrete core standing idle for several years, one of London’s tallest buildings is set to be completed following the acquisition of the project, formerly known as the Pinnacle, in a deal announced on Feb. 20.Originally due for completion some three years ago as the U.K.'s tallest building, the stalled 62-floor Pinnacle project at 22 Bishopsgate has been acquired by a consortium of investors led by AXA Real Estate, Paris, working with locally based Lipton Rogers Developments as developer.Structural and other engineering services on the project are being handled by the local
Related Links: Karst-borne Sinkholes Add Element of Structural Risk for Owners and Builders Repairs Under Way at Corvette Museum After Sinkhole Swallows Cars Drones Inspect Sinkhole at National Corvette Museum That sinkhole at the National Corvette Museum is no longer a gaping hole in the ground.It's been filled with about 4,000 tons of manufactured sand, and engineers started Feb. 9 to drill the second round of micro piles for additional support of the circular Skydome building above the hole in Bowling Green, Ky.Scott, Murphy & Daniel, the Bowling Green contractor, started the fill work in November, and Hayward Baker, the
Mix-Design Veteran Calls 432 Park Avenue's White Concrete Recipe His Most Challenging Ever Moving Up in the World Few know more about deceptive appearances than the team producing the world's first high-strength, white-concrete, exposed-perimeter structure for the tallest residential tower in the Western Hemisphere. On the face of it, Manhattan's 1,397-ft 432
By Nadine M. Post for ENR One World Trade Center received its first tenants in 2014. The observation deck is scheduled to open in the spring. Photo by Michael Dickter/Magnusson Klemencic Associates Levi's Stadium, for the San Francisco 49ers, opened on time last summer. Related Links: Wilshire Grand Concrete Mat Placement Sets U.S. Record Pankow Foundation Charts Ambitious Research Goals For High-Strength Rebar The Promise and Pitfalls of Modular Buildings For the buildings sector, 2014 has been a year of starts, stops and milestones—some very high profile. Though at least a year late, tenants finally began moving into the 1,776-ft-tall
A project to rescue a dilapidated, 178-year-old house on the edge of Washington, D.C.'s National Mall won a $1-million grant on Dec. 9 from American Express.The lockkeeper's house served a freight canal, located near where the Washington Monument is now. Canals formed an inland freight transportation system, which was eclipsed by railroads in the 1870s.Boarded up since the 1970s, the house will be moved back from the road and undergo extensive interior and exterior restoration.
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