Serving up to 80 students, this 6,000-sq-ft early childhood development center and teacher training facility in Johannesburg, South Africa, was the culmination of two years of planning, design and construction led by student volunteers from Cornell University.
Part of the 16-acre World Trade Center complex under construction in Manhattan, the memorial is a public space centered around two reflecting pools that sit in the footprints of the original towers.
When the project team started plotting its construction strategy for The Shard, no one in the U.K. had ever planned a 306-meter-tall building or worked at such lofty heights.
Lacking reliable infrastructure, nearby suppliers and skilled workers, the project team building a $135.8-million U.S. embassy in war-torn Liberia faced an uphill battle.
The Zuellig Building, a $171-million, 33-story office building in the Makati Central Business District in Manila, was the first building in the Philippines to be pre-certified Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Gold by the U.S. Green Building Council.
Soaring over a 300-meter-wide, 40-m-deep canyon, the Chavon River Bridge provides a vital link in the 70-km-long Autopista del Coral project to link Punta Cana and La Romana.
Be Like Brit is a 19,000-sq-ft, two-story orphanage on a four-acre site 30 miles east of Port-Au-Prince. It is named in honor of Britney Gengel, a 20-year-old American college student who died in the 2010 earthquake.
The USACE's mission with the $14-billion LPV 3.2b West Return Floodwall project was to construct the Greater New Orleans Hurricane and Storm Damage Risk Reduction System as the region recovered from the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.