Related Links: View the 2013 Best of the Best Projects Winners ENR Excellence in Safety Award: St. Louis Library Industry professionals from all across the U.S. donated their time and expertise to help ENR identify and honor the most outstanding construction efforts completed in the U.S. and Puerto Rico between July 2012 and June 2013. Nearly 800 project teams submitted their best work to ENR's regional "Best Projects" competitions. For each of the ten regions, our editors assembled an independent panel of industry judges to home in on the winners in 20 categories. The winners of the regional contests moved
Photo By Chad Sattler Project officials estimate the schoolwhich was delivered via a public-private partnershipwill generate more electricity annually than it will consume. Related Links: 2013's Best of the Best Projects Winners Sandy Grove School Earns Positive Energy Marks This middle school in Lumber Bridge, N.C., built via a public-private partnership and designed to achieve LEED Platinum status, incorporates more than 2,300 solar panels that, collectively, generate an estimated 589.5 kilowatts of electricity annually, or about 30% more than the school will require, project officials estimate.As a result, project developer FirstFloor K-12 Solutions estimates that, over the next 40 years,
Photo by Jeff Goldberg/ESTO The concert hall features 842 vineyard-style seats. Related Links: 2013 Best of the Best Projects Winners Bing Concert Hall Team Gives Virtuoso Acoustic Performance Designed to be extremely intimate, Bing Concert Hall's 842 vineyard-style seats are organized in terraced platforms that surround the entire performance space. The optimal acoustical design called for lofty, 48-ft-high ceilings, resulting in 680,000 cu ft of volume—greater than halls with more than three times as many seats. Nine reflective acoustic panels—the largest 43 ft by 51 ft and weighing 8,000 lb—were hung around the curvaceous space. Each panel had a unique
Related Links: See who else is moving up, or moving on, in the AEC sector In what it terms an "unplanned event," Bechtel Group Inc. said on Feb. 3 that President William N. "Bill" Dudley now takes on the added role of CEO, replacing Riley P. Bechtel, who remains chairman. DudleyThe company said Bechtel is vacating the CEO role he had assumed in mid-1990 "for health reasons."A company spokeswoman confirmed to ENR that Bechtel, 61, was diagnosed in December with early-stage Parkinson's disease and is undergoing treatment.Dudley, who is also 61 and has been corporate president and chief operating officer
David Goodyear Engineer Arvid Grant, 93, was an accomplished structural engineer and self-taught in surveying and mechanical engineering/HVAC, peers say. Photo by Arvid Grant Pasco-Kennewick concrete cable-stayed bridge in Washington State was the longest of its kind in North America when built in the 1970s. Related Links: NY Times: Modern Bridge Design Attacked As Too Vulnerable to Corrosion The Day, May 29, 1988: Safety of Sleek, Modern Bridges Fiercely Debated Arvid Grant, 93, a pioneer of modern concrete cable-stayed bridge engineering whose Columbia River span in Washington state was the longest such crossing in North America when it opened in
Related Links: Read obituaries of other industry leaders and innovators Johannes J. "Joe" DeVries, 77, a noted hydrology and hydraulic engineering consultant, researcher and educator, died on Dec. 8 in Davis, Calif. The cause of death was cancer, says an obituary in The Davis Enterprise. DeVriesHe worked at the University of California, Davis, from 1972 until 1993, and consulted on global projects for the United Nations, World Bank, Army Corps of Engineers, U.S. Agency for International Development and governments in India, Argentina and Taiwan.DeVries was principal engineer at David Ford Consulting Engineers Inc. until 2012.A life member of the American
Image by Doug Scott After Image Courtesy of WSDOT Before Related Links: 2013's Best of the Best Projects Winners Overall Best Project, ENR Northwest 2013 This $55-million renovation and modernization project kept intact the 100-plus-year-old King Street Station's historic elements, including the original windows and doors, while performing a complete structural upgrade. During construction, the station, which serves about 10,000 people a day, remained operational. Highlights of the project included the rehabilitation of the structure's iconic 12-story clock tower, the repair and restoration of the main waiting room, and the installation of seismic upgrades, which met LEED Platinum standards. One
ENR McGovern (left) and Lehrer achieved renown for leading the restoration of the Statue of Liberty, pictured here in a 1984 ENR cover profile. Related Links: Pavarini McGovern Lehrer LLC Eugene McGovern, co-founder of Lehrer/McGovern Inc., died suddenly on Jan. 22. He would have turned 73 on Jan. 29.McGovern, a construction consultant based in Boca Raton, Fla., and Cody, Wyo., started his career at construction giant Morse/Diesel Inc.While there, he met Peter M. Lehrer. In 1979, the two formed Lehrer/McGovern. The firm was catapulted into the limelight after it landed the high-profile centennial restoration of the Statue of Liberty, which
Related Links: See what other executives are moving up, or moving on, in the AEC sector What does 2014 hold for Siemens Water Technologies, under AEA control? Ex-Chicago CTO John Tolva joins engineering firm John Tolva blog Private equity firm AEA Investors LP has named Lukas Loeffler as CEO of Evoqua Water Technologies LLC, the renamed municipal and industrial water and wastewater treatment assets it acquired on Jan. 15 from Siemens AG. He was CEO of Siemens Water Technologies, the unit created when the German conglomerate bought water company USFilter in 2004. According to Water World magazine, AEA paid $865
When Singapore's Building and Construction Authority issued its Green Mark guidelines in 2006, the South Asian island city-state moved to the forefront of sustainable design and construction for the 21st century.
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