Photo by Timothy Hursley Related Links: Best of the Best Projects 2012 Winners Entries for ENR's First Global Best Projects Competition Are Due Feb. 28 Complex Museum Captures the Beauty of Arkansas Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, a 200,000-sq-ft museum and cultural center, features complex geometric forms inspired by the local Arkansas landscape as well as the suspension bridges of Bhutan.The museum was built using bridge engineering to create hanging structures, suspending the museum above a creek bed. Two suspended cable-and-wood buildings were secured using specially designed rock anchors to stabilize the large abutments on both roofs. Engineers used
Designed for net-zero energy consumption and LEED Platinum certification, this $37.2-million, two-story building in Los Angeles features a green roof of low-water succulents.
Related Links: Best of the Best Projects 2012 Winners Entries for ENR's First Global Best Projects Competition Are Due Feb. 28 Palomar Medical Center's Stellar Project Delivery The $956-million, 750,000-sq-ft Palomar Medical Center in Escondido, Calif. is one of the largest buildings in the U.S. to use integrated project delivery principles and one of only two U.S. hospitals with day-lit operating rooms, according to DPR Construction.Completed ahead of schedule and within budget, the facility includes an 11-story patient tower and a two-story diagnostic and treatment wing, topped by a 1.5-acre green roof planted with native flora to mimic nearby hillsides.
Photo by Benjamin Benschneider Related Links: Best of the Best Projects 2012 Winners Entries for ENR's First Global Best Projects Competition Are Due Feb. 28 UW Molecular Building Accelerates Construction Phases Situated within the central science core of the University of Washington's Seattle campus, the $59-million, 90,000-sq-ft first phase of the master-planned Molecular Engineering & Sciences Building was designed to create a multidisciplinary research setting and strengthen existing science programs.To fit the facility on the site, historic Cunningham Hall—built in 1909 as part of the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition—had to be relocated. Within this footprint, the design took advantage of the topography
Photo by Coleman Photography Eleven roof trusses provide a 464-ft clear span. Related Links: See all of the Best of the Best Projects 2012 Winners Entries for ENR's First Global Best Projects Competition Are Due Feb. 28 Design-builders of The Boeing Co.'s new 787 manufacturing complex in North Charlseston, S.C., had only 24 months to engineer and construct the program's 11 separate structures, which collectively measured more than one million sq ft. To facilitate the schedule, the KBR-Turner-BRPH team completed the design of the project's structural steel and sitework prior to Boeing's formal acceptance of the joint venture's proposal.Contractors began
Photo by Fitlow The team logged 1.5 million worker hours without a lost-time accident. Related Links: See all of the Best of the Best Projects 2012 Winners Headquarters Tower Gets Complete Makeover Entries for ENR's First Global Best Projects Competition Are Due Feb. 28 Gilbane Building Co. renovated more than one million sq ft of El Paso Corp.'s state-of-the-art, LEED Gold high-rise, completing work on the 32-story, 45-year-old headquarters in downtown Houston in September 2011.No exterior hoists were used on this project, resulting in $1.5 million in cost savings. Freight elevators moved all materials and crews.Asbestos abatement was conducted while
Nadine M. Post for ENR One New York Plaza was in the flood zone in Lower Manhattan. Nadine M. Post for ENR Related Links: Brookfield Office Properties While New York City's 100-person Building Resiliency Task Force—convened in the wake of Superstorm Sandy—begins reviewing codes to recommend ways to make low-lying buildings more flood-resistant, building owners are reassessing their own storm protocols. At least one, Brookfield Office Properties, already has begun rebuilding the three flooded basements of its 50-story One New York Plaza.The office tower sits near the southern tip of Manhattan. On Oct. 29, a 3-ft-high storm surge flooded three
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
Two independent sources with knowledge of the investigation into the Oct. 10 collapse of a parking garage at Miami Dade College have refuted a claim reported by Engineering News-Record that the structure was struck a second time by a crane pick just prior to the fatal incident.
Photo by Luke Abaffy At Breezy Point in Brooklyn, N.Y., cleanup is under way and homeowners can register for NYC Rapid Repairs. Related Links: Hurricane Sandy NYC Rapid Repairs Contractor Registration FEMA Disaster Response Registry System for Award Management Sandy Recovery News and Resources Contractors can now register online for New York City’s rapid repairs program that will help homeowners rebuild after Superstorm Sandy. The Building Trades Employers Association of New York City is helping to reach out to contractors and suppliers by hosting a registration form on its website.The program, called NYC Rapid Repairs, was announced Nov. 9 by
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