Related Links: An Unprecedented 11 Partners Propel Integrated Project Delivery at $320-million California Hospital Sutter's Improved Relational Contract on Its Way The steel contractor for Sutter Medical Center, Castro Valley, was not invited to join the 11-party relational contract as a partner. But Herrick Corp. did sign on for preconstruction services and a negotiated contract, in support of the $320-million hospital's integrated form of agreement.And like the partners, Herrick opened its books. “We also established a target price,” which included profit and changed as the scope increased, says Robert Hazleton, vice president of the Stockton, Calif.-based Herrick. HAZELTON“If we under-ran
Related Links: Hospital's Steel Contractor Collaborates without Signing a Relational Contract Sutter's Improved Relational Contract on Its Way Prior to the $320-million Castro Valley project, Sutter Health's Digby R. Christian had never managed a hospital job, let alone one with a relational contract.But that isn't stopping him from making integrated project delivery history in earthquake-prone California and in the U.S. For the 230,000-sq-ft Sutter Medical Center, Castro Valley near San Francisco, Christian skipped over the baby steps of IPD with a tri-party agreement and went straight to IPD with an unprecedented 11 partners sharing risk and reward.“I wanted to be
Related Links: An Unprecedented 11 Partners Propel Integrated Project Delivery at $320-million California Hospital Sutter Health, a pioneer in integrated project delivery, will soon release a revamped relational-contract form. The Sacramento-based non-profit healthcare system, in the midst of a $5.5-billion capital program, is culling lessons learned from its IPD projects to improve the form, making it more user-friendly. The form will also integrate building information modeling into the main agreement.The basic underlying philosophy of the integrated form of agreement (IFOA) will stay the same, says Howard W. Ashcraft, a partner in Hanson Bridgett LLP, San Francisco, which is Sutter's outside
Never mind her asthma, Carla Bonacci recalls thinking on Sept. 11, 2001, after her PATH train from New Jersey got diverted from her World Trade Center stop to a station about a mile north.The Port Authority of New York & New Jersey manager, seeing smoke billowing from the 110-story twin towers of the WTC, raced toward the infernos. She was hell-bent on getting to her team, housed on two floors high in the north tower. Just before she made her destination, the south tower collapsed. To her, it sounded like a bomb and brought back vivid memories of the first
Bottom Photo by Nadine M. Post for ENR DETERMINED On 9/11, Lyons, wearing his firefighter-brothers spare gear, went looking for him at Ground Zero. Lyons has worked there since. Related Links: Witnesses to 9/11, Devoted to Rebuilding World Trade Center At New York's New World Trade Center, Uncommon Cooperation Brian Lyons, 51, has worked on 10 projects at Ground Zero. The man is on a personal crusade to rebuild the World Trade Center “bigger and better than before.” His mission was born on 9/11, when he made his way to Ground Zero to look for his 32-year-old brother—a firefighter with
Photo by Gustavo J. Parra-Montesinos Orthogonal layouts of shear stud reinforcing at slab-column connections in flat-plate concrete frames do not perform well, says researcher. Photo by Gustavo J. Parra-Montesinos A researcher suggests radial layouts should replace orthogonal layouts of shear stud reinforcing at slab-column connections in flat-plate concrete frames. Related Links: Healthy Doses of Steel Fiber Clear Rebar Congestion Structural designers say there is cause for concern but no reason to panic over research that indicates potential for premature failure of flat-plate concrete frames reinforced at slab-column connections with a popular shear-studs-on-a-rail detail.Engineers estimate that in seismic zones alone there
Rendering Courtesy of Tishman/Turner Challenges ahead include fabricating the curving, sloping "bones" of the dove in heavy steel in Italy, transporting them to the site and stabilizing them during erection. The expressed steel framing for the grand-scale sculptural transit hall of the WTC’s Transportation Hub, designed by architect-engineer Santiago Calatrava to evoke a dove of peace, already has been simplified to keep it from literally flapping its wings. Yet it still is going to be “as challenging a steel project as it gets,” says Dan Payea, vice president of operations for Skanska Koch, a Carteret, N.J.-based division of Skanska Civil
Related Links: See All Of ENR's Rebuilding Ground Zero Stories, Videos and Photos Video: An Overview of Ground Zero Video: Progress in Rebuilding Ground Zero A Slide Show History of the World Trade Center At New York's New World Trade Center, Uncommon Cooperation Key Transit Links Help Reshape Manhattan Below Grade at WTC Hub, a Transit Tango 9/11 Memorial Is Centerpiece of World Trade Center Redevelopment Slide Show: ENRs World Trade Center Saga Continues Port Authoritys World Trade Center Site For workers raising the Western Hemisphere's soon-to-be tallest skyscraper, “fast food” has an extra dollop of meaning.With hundreds of eateries
The redevelopment of the World Trade Center site is only the latest chapter in a construction story that began more than half century ago. This slide show timeline covers the full scope of the World Trade Center's history, from the earliest planning to the current reconstruction efforts.
