Items Tagged with 'public buildings'

Lawsuit targets planning and contracting records for the White House ballroom as construction moves forward under legal and preservation scrutiny.

With only his shovel and a squeegee for company, Tony Ingram cut a lonely figure after hours one night last spring, as he cleared runoff from a torrential rain that had turned a section of the rear entrance of the 1,100-acre Longwood Gardens in Kennett Square, Pa., into a mud flat.

The project's centerpiece, the West Conservatory, is an expressed-steel glasshouse with doubly curved members, little repetition and tight tolerances.

A $250-million makeover of the landmark garden near Wilmington, Del., which will add a conservatory with geothermal and other sustainable systems, is the most ambitious development of a 40-year grand plan.

The city of Thornton’s 29,000-sq-ft design-build Fire Department Administration Headquarters includes offices, conference rooms, break rooms and work areas on the second floor, along with four large pull-through apparatus bays, 10 bunk rooms, a large dayroom and kitchen space, decontamination areas, locker rooms and an indoor-outdoor fitness center on the first floor.

In 1985, Congress created the Program Manager for Chemical Demilitarization to destroy the remaining 10% of the U.S. chemical weapons stockpile. To date, chemical weapons have been eliminated at six of the eight original storage sites. 

Hotel transformed into an alternate care facility in days.

Construction in Illinois, Indiana, Ohio and Wisconsin is seen as essential infrastructure, so work continues on most sites in those states. Minnesota, Kentucky, Missouri and Kansas's orders broadly exempt outdoor activities. Michigan's order includes public works construction as essential.

A new report says replacing two Cape Cod Canal bridges for an estimated $1 billion would be more cost-effective than rehabilitating them. 

Engineers and architects have the responsibility to hold paramount the safety, health, and welfare of the public. Until building codes adapt, building professionals must seriously consider integrating passive design into their projects to ensure occupant safety during extreme weather events.