For about 50 years, many developers and design teams—salivating over the best-located piece of real estate left in the heart of Chicago—have tried unsuccessfully to come up with an economically viable project for the sliver of a site, hemmed in by active railroad tracks, viaducts, a building and the Chicago River.
Related Links: American Concrete Institute Engineers Welcome Designer-Friendly Structural Concrete Standard Pankow Foundation Charts Ambitious Research Goals For High-Strength Rebar More than 25,000 Twitter users participated in a Nov. 18 Twitter chat, hosted by the American Concrete Institute, to ask questions about the group's revised "Formwork for Concrete" manual, which was published last month.Topics "discussed" included polyvinyl chloride formwork; safety design of formwork; new content in the manual; the latest load and materials standards; and the benefits students can gain from the manual, says ACI. "The objectives of the manual, through many editions, are to support quality, safety and economy,"
Engineers with the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration are on track to support surface construction on the moon within a decade, says Robert P. Mueller, senior technologist in the advanced projects development in the surface systems office for engineering and technology at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center.
Related Links: Skanska Video: How Do You Move a Harvard Fresco? Global Best Office Project: The Place, London Global Best Projects Winner, Best Large Project: The Shard As Harvard University's estimated $247-million renovation and expansion of its art museums nears completion, project teams in the Boston area are breathing easy after some complex maneuvers to protect and move the art.The project integrates the Fogg, the Busch-Reisinger and the Arthur M. Sackler museums and their combined 250,000 works of art under one roof. The new building is targeting LEED Gold certification and will add 12,000 sq feet of gallery space to
The need to preserve the tent-like concrete roof of London's former Commonwealth Institute as the rest of the 52-year-old building was razed turned an adaptive-reuse project into a structural balancing act. With internal demolition temporarily undermining all but one roof support, the thin-shell, hyperbolic-paraboloid cover stands, thanks to an elaborate system of aids.Work on the future home of
Rendering Courtesy of NBBJ Amazon's "Rufus" headquarters project commands three city blocks in downtown Seattle and features three interconnected glass-and-steel domes. Related Links: Industry Catches a Ride on Seattle's Big Tech Wave Annual IT Report for Designers and Planners Projects Lower IT Spend After five years of slow or no growth across many construction sectors, the technology industry's demand for new building stands out. While most markets are only gradually digging their way toward recovery, office starts in many regions are taking off, thanks in part to tech firms seeking more space for operations such as administration and data storage.Much
Related Links: Megaproject Starts Propel $16.7B of Work in Calif., Hawaii Wolffkran Plans Towering U.S. Comeback, Including at 181 Fremont In earthquake-prone San Francisco, crews are digging the city's deepest foundation piles for an 802-ft-tall office-residential tower that is on course to be the city's second-tallest structure, if only temporarily. The 55-story 181 Fremont tower, sited on land reclaimed from the San Francisco Bay after the 1906 earthquake, will be founded on 42 piers that plunge an average of 255 ft—with the deepest down 264 ft—to bedrock.Because of the tight site, which is less than 140 ft square and bordered