Send to Lexis Nexis

RSS

The International Code Council has for the first time added a section on tornado resilience to the 2024 version of the International Building Code. 

No price tag, timeline or construction procurement status for the major work were disclosed in a vision plan released Oct. 17 developed with design firms Arup and Skidmore, Owings & Merrill.

Since its initial construction in 1912, the historic Capitol Park Hotel has served a variety of roles, from women’s college to furniture store and most recently as temporary housing for the homeless before closing down in 2020.

Sonoma Academy’s new professional-grade performing arts facility spans more than 27,000 sq ft. The structure will support the high school’s robust theater activities as well as music and film programs.

The 300-ft-tall commercial office high-rise 200 Park in San Jose, Calif., is just the second tower built with the SpeedCore concrete-filled composite steel plate shear wall core system. The result is the Northern California 2024 Project of the Year.

Amazon also follows Microsoft in spinning up nuclear energy, with plan to build small reactors in Washington state and Virginia and leading $500 investment in SMR technology.

The semiconductor producer is building a wafer plant in North Carolina and plans to expand a fab in New York.

The 2024 ENR California’s Best Projects competition honors an array of projects boasting dynamic and innovative design and construction methods.

A grand opening in December 2023 marked the completion of this $22-million design-build, multiphase project that expanded and replaced an outdated pool facility with a 25,800-sq-ft recreation and aquatic center.

Constructed on a 20-acre site, this $219.5-million state-of-the-art wastewater treatment facility treats between 8-10 million gallons of water per day.