Design

Precast Standards' Work Under Way as Brittle Fracture Warnings Aired

October 9, 2019

American Concrete Institute says its first-ever initiative to develop a precast standard is not related to an article in Concrete International that sounds the alarm about the potential for brittle failures of non-code-compliant precast, prestressed-concrete double-T parking decks, with flanges reinforced with a high-strength polymer-coated carbon-fiber grid product, called C-Grid.

Draft of AISC Structural Steel Seismic Retrofit Standard Out for Review

October 2, 2019

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Portions of the draft of an American Institute of Steel Construction standard, Seismic Provisions for Evaluation and Retrofit of Existing Structural Steel Buildings (AISC 342), are available for public review until Nov. 4.

World Green Building Council Calls for Net-Zero Embodied Carbon in Buildings by 2050

Nadine M. Post

October 2, 2019

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World Green Building Council sets lofty goals for zero EC in new buildings, infrastructure, retrofits by 2050

Norway Picks Design for World's Longest Floating Bridge

Peter Reina

September 27, 2019

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Once considered an "impossible" project, Norway has settled on a design for a 5-kilometer-long floating bridge to cross the 550-meter-deep Bjørna fjord.

render of Vancouver International Airport terminal

Vancouver Airport Plans to Add New Gates, and Trees

Tim Newcomb

September 25, 2019

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An open-air forest and an intermodal transportation center are highlights of Vancouver International Airport’s grand Flight Plan.

Debra K. Rubin

September 11, 2019

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Public-private consortium wants $300K project to weigh floating wind farm technology economics.

CII Study Finds Virtual Reality Helps Reduce Design Errors

Scott Blair

September 11, 2019

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Compared to traditional desktop-based review methods, construction novices with less than three years of experience in the industry were able to double their ability to spot design errors in a 3D model using an immersive virtual reality interface, according to a new study released by the Construction Industry Institute at its annual conference in San Diego last month.

Reviewers OK Fix for San Francisco's Leaning Millennium Tower

Nadine M. Post

September 11, 2019

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An independent engineering review team has given its nod to the San Francisco Dept. of Building Inspection regarding permitting of the proposed $100-million structural shoring scheme for the 645-ft-tall Millennium Tower—which has settled 17.3 in. over more than a decade.

LaGuardia Terminal Project is First to Go 'Platinum'

Tom Stabile

August 28, 2019

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$5.1B NYC airport revamp met the new Envision infrastructure sustainability rating bar as an overall $8B upgrade copes with record summer volume.

Building Documenters Offer New Model for Standards

Stephanie Loder

August 28, 2019

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A new Level of Accuracy Specification for commissioning construction measurement services, such as scanning, was released on Aug. 20 by the U.S. Institute of Building Documentation.

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