While states and municipalities seek to adopt ordinances that require “green” or “sustainable” construction, code officials are scrambling for appropriate practices and language to include. Related Links: Illinois DOT Seeks $300-Million TIGER Grant for Chicago Region Environmental and Transportation Efficiency Program Indiana Seeks $71.4 Million in Stimulus Funds for Northwest Rail Improvements New IDOT Web site Offers Data about all Illinois Bridges Landscape Architect Society Now Offers Sustainability Guides On Line Missouri DOT Starts Work on Page Extension for Route 364 Geotechnology Awarded Contracts on Missouri Bridge Program and Army Corps of Engineers Project New International Code for Commercial Buildings
Related Links: Supplement No. 1 to ANSI/AISC 358-05 Available for Free Download Hydraulic Institute Publishes Rotodynamic Pump Vibration Measurements and Allowable Values Standard Structural Engineers Offer Seminar About Designing Aluminum Structures Nov. 18 Six Wight & Company Projects Receive LEED Gold Certification The Wood Products Council’s WoodWorks initiative and RISA Technologies have released Phase II of RISA’s building-design software. The new release incorporates a full range of wood-design features. The updated software can be used to design all-wood buildings or hybrid structures of wood and steel, concrete or masonry says Bruce Bates, president of RISA Technologies. Bates also says the
Photo: Ragnar Benson Construction A new $8.7-million office building is the first constructed in Phase One of the new Bell Valley Commons subdivision near Rockford, Ill. Related Links: Turner Selected for $110-Million Renovation of Dirksen Courthouse in Chicago Meridian Completes Chicago Build-To-Suit Bulley & Andrews Completes Swissotel Chicago Renovation and Expansion Need Sparks Wisconsin�s First Free-standing Emergency Center Morgan/Harbour to Complete Build-Out for the Hinsdale Orthopaedic Group Pingree Grove Police Facility Earns LEED Silver Certification Holland Construction Builds New Aquatic Center McShane Completes 294-Unit Luxury Apartment Complex A new three-story, $8.7-million, office building has sprung up in a former cornfield
Sheet Metal Workers� Local 36 and the Sheet Metal Workers� Joint Apprenticeship and Training Program, St. Louis, have added Steve Sneed as an apprentice instructor and coordinator of their newly developed Building Information Modeling (BIM) program. Related Links: New Textbook About HVACR Trade Basics Available ASCE Adopts New Post-disaster Assessment Manual AGC of Milwaukee Names Dairyland Electric�s Martinez as its Associate of the Year Green Building Initiative Launches Personnel Certification Programs St. Louis' Construction Careers Center Wins National Award Somerville Earns 2009 Sustainability Leadership Award Download Free Safety Publications From Power Tool Institute Web Site BIM is rapidly growing in
Wight & Company, Darien, Ill., recently earned Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Gold certification for six projects. Photo: Wight & Co. Though it originally targeted LEED Silver certification, Atlantic Hall No. 3 at the Great Lakes Naval Training Center, Great Lakes, Ill., actually earned the higher LEED Gold rating. Related Links: Supplement No. 1 to ANSI/AISC 358-05 Available for Free Download Hydraulic Institute Publishes Rotodynamic Pump Vibration Measurements and Allowable Values Standard Structural Engineers Offer Seminar About Designing Aluminum Structures Nov. 18 RISA Engineering Software First with Full Range of Wood Features Mark Wight, chairman, says each project’s
Somerville Inc., architects and engineers, Green Bay, Wis., received a 2009 SE2 (Sustainability and Energy Efficiency) Leadership Award for its design of the Fox Valley (Wis.) Technical College - Waupaca Regional Center. Photo: Somerville The sustainable design of the Waupaca, Wis., regional Fox Valley Technical College earned architectural and engineering firm Somerville Inc. a 2009 Sustainability and Energy Efficiency Leadership Award. The award is presented by group of seven industry associations. Related Links: New Textbook About HVACR Trade Basics Available ASCE Adopts New Post-disaster Assessment Manual AGC of Milwaukee Names Dairyland Electric�s Martinez as its Associate of the Year Green
St. Louis� Construction Careers Center charter high school, operated by the Associated General Contractors of St. Louis, was recently awarded the Founder�s Award by the American Council for Construction Education (ACCE). Photo: AGC of St. Louis Leonard Toenjes, president of AGC of St. Louis (left) and Brandon Dyer, 2009 Construction Careers Center graduate (second from left) help display the Founder�s Award. Related Links: New Textbook About HVACR Trade Basics Available ASCE Adopts New Post-disaster Assessment Manual AGC of Milwaukee Names Dairyland Electric�s Martinez as its Associate of the Year Green Building Initiative Launches Personnel Certification Programs Sheet Metal Workers� Local
The Structural Engineers Association of Illinois is offering a seminar about designing aluminum structures from 7:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. at the Four Points Sheraton in Schiller Park, Ill., on Nov. 18. The seminar earns 7.5 hours of continuing education credit. Related Links: Supplement No. 1 to ANSI/AISC 358-05 Available for Free Download Hydraulic Institute Publishes Rotodynamic Pump Vibration Measurements and Allowable Values Standard Six Wight & Company Projects Receive LEED Gold Certification RISA Engineering Software First with Full Range of Wood Features The presenter is J. Randolph Kissell, who has been involved in the design, fabrication, erection, and inspection
Delmar, a provider of learning solutions has released HVACR 201, the second book in a four-part series of heating, ventilation, air conditioning and refrigeration (HVACR) training textbooks for HVACR apprentices, entry-level technicians and students. Related Links: ASCE Adopts New Post-disaster Assessment Manual AGC of Milwaukee Names Dairyland Electric�s Martinez as its Associate of the Year Green Building Initiative Launches Personnel Certification Programs Sheet Metal Workers� Local 36 Expands BIM Curriculum St. Louis' Construction Careers Center Wins National Award Somerville Earns 2009 Sustainability Leadership Award Download Free Safety Publications From Power Tool Institute Web Site The book was written in partnership
Related Links: Meridian Completes Chicago Build-To-Suit Bulley & Andrews Completes Swissotel Chicago Renovation and Expansion Need Sparks Wisconsin�s First Free-standing Emergency Center Morgan/Harbour to Complete Build-Out for the Hinsdale Orthopaedic Group Pingree Grove Police Facility Earns LEED Silver Certification Holland Construction Builds New Aquatic Center McShane Completes 294-Unit Luxury Apartment Complex Ragnar Benson Completes Office Building The U.S. General Services Administration has selected Turner Construction Co. to provide construction and construction-management services for the $110-million renovation of the Everett McKinley Dirksen U.S. Courthouse in Chicago, Ill., which was constructed in 1964 and designed by Mies Van Der Rohe. The courthouse
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