Architect William McDonough claims he first heard about Ford Motor Co.'s $2-billion makeover of its River Rouge production plant in Dearborn, Mich., on May 4, 1999, the same day that Ford CEO William Clay Ford Jr. called a press conference to announce that McDonough would lead the design team. Picking McDonough, a wry Charlottesville, Va.-based iconoclast who preaches environmentally benign, sustainable design, was a bold move for the automaker. McDonough believes in not only fundamentally altering buildings, but also changing the way things are made, to make the planet a better place. MASTER PLAN Complex covering 1,100 acres will have
The current construction market may not be the pause that refreshes for contractors and design firms, but it definitely has many private sector owners reassessing their processes and searching for new ways to make their capital programs more cost effective. And, as they assess their construction processes, many are not entirely happy with their contractor and designer partners' progress on such issues as productivity and technology. Construction executives at major corporations are facing increasing pressure from the boardroom to keep shareholders happy and are becoming more hard-nosed about business practices. "We are accountable to our internal customers and are not
When the curtain goes up at the Philadelphia Academy of Music for the opening of Carmen on Nov. 8, opera patrons will see little evidence of its $37-million renovation program even though the work included complex structural first aid for ailing structural members above the auditorium's ornate plaster ceiling. OPULENCE Renovation preserved hall's special ambiance. (photo courtesy of The Philadelphia Orchestra) And that's just the way the owner, the Philadelphia Orchestra Association, wants it. The goal of the ambitious six-year renovation program, dubbed the "Academy for the 21st Century," was to bring the 145-year-old building up to the standards of
On Oct. 9, driver Brian Anderson's dump truck knocked down and crushed James Lee Causey, a 60-year-old working for Moran Environmental Recovery, which was repairing a collapsed culvert at a former municipal dump in Gainesville, Fla. "The driver feels [that] the victim knew the truck was there," a city police officer told a local reporter. The accident was a fragment of local news, a humdrum industrial accident worth only a few paragraphs in the Gainesville, Fla., Sun. When construction closes the books on 2002, there will be another 1,200 or so James Lee Causeys and the cumulative loss of life
HOW TO USE THE TABLE NOTE: This table is not a ranking of civil engineering schools. It is an informational tool for students and others to use in learning more about and comparing these programs. Civil engineering (CE) programs within colleges and universities are grouped geographically by standard zones of the American Society of Civil Engineers and are listed alphabeticallly. West (Zone IV) = Calif., Ore., Wash., Idaho, Utah, Ariz., Nev., Mont., Alaska and Hawaii. Central (Zone III) = Wyo., Colo., N.M., Iowa, Kan., Minn., Mo., Neb., Texas, Okla., Wis., N.D., S.D. and Ill. Mid-Southeast (Zone II) = Ark., La.,
HOW TO USE THE TABLE NOTE: This table is not a ranking of civil engineering schools. It is an informational tool for students and others to use in learning more about and comparing these programs. Civil engineering (CE) programs within colleges and universities are grouped geographically by standard zones of the American Society of Civil Engineers and are listed alphabeticallly. West (Zone IV) = Calif., Ore., Wash., Idaho, Utah, Ariz., Nev., Mont., Alaska and Hawaii. Central (Zone III) = Wyo., Colo., N.M., Iowa, Kan., Minn., Mo., Neb., Texas, Okla., Wis., N.D., S.D. and Ill. Mid-Southeast (Zone II) = Ark., La.,
HOW TO USE THE TABLE NOTE: This table is not a ranking of civil engineering schools. It is an informational tool for students and others to use in learning more about and comparing these programs. Civil engineering (CE) programs within colleges and universities are grouped geographically by standard zones of the American Society of Civil Engineers and are listed alphabeticallly. West (Zone IV) = Calif., Ore., Wash., Idaho, Utah, Ariz., Nev., Mont., Alaska and Hawaii. Central (Zone III) = Wyo., Colo., N.M., Iowa, Kan., Minn., Mo., Neb., Texas, Okla., Wis., N.D., S.D. and Ill. Mid-Southeast (Zone II) = Ark., La.,
HOW TO USE THE TABLE NOTE: This table is not a ranking of civil engineering schools. It is an informational tool for students and others to use in learning more about and comparing these programs. Civil engineering (CE) programs within colleges and universities are grouped geographically by standard zones of the American Society of Civil Engineers and are listed alphabeticallly. West (Zone IV) = Calif., Ore., Wash., Idaho, Utah, Ariz., Nev., Mont., Alaska and Hawaii. Central (Zone III) = Wyo., Colo., N.M., Iowa, Kan., Minn., Mo., Neb., Texas, Okla., Wis., N.D., S.D. and Ill. Mid-Southeast (Zone II) = Ark., La.,
One size does not fit all could be the motto for professional architectural education. Students who want to become architects have two choices: Immediately following high school, students can enter a five-year Bachelor of Architecture degree program. Alternatively, students can wait until graduate school and earn a Master of Architecture degree, which typically requires three years for those with no prior architectural course work. But those paths are diverging. The National Architectural Accrediting Board announced in 2000 plans to study the possible elimination of the B.Arch. degree. After opposition from many parties, NAAB decided to table the issue until next
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