‘E-construction’ as the Norm Is Still 10 to 15 Years Away- McGraw-Hill Construction | ENR
Call it electronic data interchange (EDI), interoperability, building information modeling (BIM), virtual building or e-construction. It’s a design and construction process that experts say holds the
Publication Date: 20 February , 2006
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Vegas Bets on $737-Million Convention Center Upgrade - McGraw-Hill Construction | ENR
Las Vegas is placing a high-roller bet on a $737-million convention center upgrade to draw more people to the gambling Mecca. The city saw 38.56-million visitors in 2005, a 3.2% increase from the previous
Publication Date: 20 February , 2006
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China Building TV Tower to the Sky - McGraw-Hill Construction | ENR
One of China's oldest cities, Guangzhou, is reaching high by starting two record-breaking buildings, both supported by external structural steel skeletons. On one side of the city, foundation work recently
Publication Date: 14 February , 2006
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Baby-Boomer Wave Will Alter Adult-Living Housing Market - McGraw-Hill Construction
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The Boomers are coming! The Boomers are coming! Baby boomers, the 75-million strong group born in the U.S. between 1946 and 1964, start turning 60 this year at a rate of about 8,000 a day. Half are already
Publication Date: 06 February , 2006
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Smithsonian Picks Mall Site for African American Museum - McGraw-Hill Construction | ENR
The Smithsonian Institution's board has selected a prime site on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., for a planned new National Museum of African American History and Culture. In a Jan. 30 vote, the Smi
Publication Date: 30 January , 2006
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Las Vegas Condo Boom Cooling
As Some Projects Are Canceled - McGraw-Hill Construction | ENR
Some Las Vegas high-rise condominium projects have been canceled by developers due to rising construction costs and slow sales. It might be one of the first signs of flagging investor activity that some ec
Publication Date: 23 January , 2006
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Mississippi Streamlines Construction For Those Who Build According to Plan - McGraw-Hill Construction | ENR
The rebuilding of 120 miles of Gulf coastline in Mississippi is off to a good start, according to some of the architects and planners who jump-started the process at the urging and direction of Gov. Haley
Publication Date: 23 January , 2006
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Fiberglass Ground Anchors Bolstered by Metal Connections - McGraw-Hill Construction | ENR
Kulchin Foundation Drilling Co. started using fiberglass soil nails on several San Diego projects. Kulchin had been using removable steel nails in PVC sleeves. But in 2001, it used 300 sleeveless 20-ft-long x 1-in.-dia fiberglass bars over a 15,
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Publication Date: 16 January , 2006
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Florida Contractor Marshalls Forces for Huge Placement - McGraw-Hill Construction | ENR
The Miami-based construction company placed 13,511 yards of concrete that will serve as the foundation for Trump Royale, a 55-story, $180 million oceanfront condominium that is part of the $750 million Trump Grande Ocean Resort and Residences, a
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Publication Date: 09 January , 2006
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Pittsburgh Hospital Selects Barton-Mallow, P.J. Dick Venture - McGraw-Hill Construction | ENR
A contracting team has been chosen for a $174 million hospital building in Pittsburgh.
Publication Date: 06 January , 2006
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Holocaust Museum Architect James Ingo Freed Dead at 75 - McGraw-Hill Construction | ENR
The architectural firm lost its poet Dec. 15 when Freed died from complications of Parkinson’s disease, which he had for more than 25 years. He was 75 years old.
Publication Date: 26 December , 2005
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Maglev Makes Its Next Move, From Trains to 'Trane' Dealers - McGraw-Hill Construction | ENR
Magnetic levitation is not just for high-speed trains anymore. The super-efficient motors also are humming away deep inside mechanical rooms far from public view. And U.S. embassies are among the customers
Publication Date: 26 December , 2005
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Failed Concourse’s Redesign Moves Ahead at Paris Airport - McGraw-Hill Construction | ENR
Designers in France are a few months into studies for a new steel truss roof to replace the concrete vault that collapsed over the concourse of Charles de Gaulle Airport’s Terminal 2E in May last year
Publication Date: 19 December , 2005
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Industry Pitching In To Help Severely Disabled Veterans - McGraw-Hill Construction | ENR
The sight of severely wounded soldiers coming home from Iraq on television prompted John Gonsalves, a home contractor and construction supervisor, to search the Internet. His goal was to find a veterans
Publication Date: 19 December , 2005
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Tokyo Scandal Grows Over Faulty Towers - McGraw-Hill Construction | ENR
“The credibility of the entire [buildings] system is on the rocks,” said Construction and Transport Minister Kazuo Kitagawa, at a Nov. 25 press conference.
Publication Date: 19 December , 2005
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Designer ‘Tests’ Its Own Work With User Satisfaction Survey - McGraw-Hill Construction | ENR
"We will continue to do this on library projects and may adapt it to others, especially academic buildings and laboratories," says Paul Zajfen, a principal with CO Architects, Los Angeles, the former Anshen+Allen Architects.
Publication Date: 12 December , 2005
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First Lower Manhattan Headquarters Since 9/11 Attacks Gets Under Way - McGraw-Hill Construction | ENR
Tishman Construction Corp., the New York City-based construction manager that built the original World Trade Center, has a project "plate" in lower Manhattan that has gone from full to overflowin
Publication Date: 12 December , 2005
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Phoenix Stadium Panels First Roll Was Free of Bumps - McGraw-Hill Construction | ENR
It "went swimmingly," says Lenart Nielsen, senior electrical engineer for the roof mechanization consultant, Uni-Systems LLC, Minneapolis. The lift of the preassembled assembly–complete with travel system–and its arced profil
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Publication Date: 12 December , 2005
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Virginia Governor Proposes New Mental Health Facilities - McGraw-Hill Construction | ENR
Virginia Gov. Mark Warner (D) has proposed closing aging state mental health hospitals and training centers and replacing them with new facilities. The four new buildings in Warner's plan, announced Dec. 6
Publication Date: 08 December , 2005
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New Statewide Building Code Will Burden Home Repairs - McGraw-Hill Construction | ENR
The legislation, which Gov. Kathleen Blanco (D) is expected to sign, not only requires that new construction adhere to the IBC, but that the code be applied to home repairs if costs are more than 50% of pre-storm valuation. While many applaud th
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Publication Date: 05 December , 2005
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Relaxed Casino Siting Rules Prime Gulf Building Boom - McGraw-Hill Construction | ENR
A casino construction boom is quietly gathering on the Mississippi Gulf Coast to take advantage of the state’s post-Katrina relaxation of siting rules that had restricted coastal casinos to floating l
Publication Date: 05 December , 2005
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Tests Called Big Step Toward Better Design - McGraw-Hill Construction | ENR
The success of the first shake table tests ever done on a seven-story section of a concrete shear-wall structure, designed using a displacement rather than a force-based approach, have exciting implication
Publication Date: 05 December , 2005
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New Orleans’ Rebuilding Plan Due By End of the Year - McGraw-Hill Construction | ENR
WRT is working for the Bring New Orleans Back Commission. BNOB was charged by Mayor C. Ray Nagin to produce a master plan for rebuilding by year-end. But WRT will produce a framework plan because it lacks time and data to produce a true master p
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Publication Date: 28 November , 2005
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Green Rating System Receives a Revamp - McGraw-Hill Construction | ENR
Five year-old LEED, the rating system that has become widely accepted in the U.S. as the standard of sustainability for buildings, is becoming more user-friendly. Responding to complaints that the system i
Publication Date: 21 November , 2005
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Restoring New Orleans Takes Team Effort and Federal Help - McGraw-Hill Construction | ENR
Blanco spoke at a Louisiana Rebuilding and Recovery Conference held in the city Nov. 10-12. Her message was consistent throughout the conference, with the need for federal support coming through again and again, as well as calls for local offici
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Publication Date: 21 November , 2005
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Skyscraper Sway Generally Confirms Predicted Behavior - McGraw-Hill Construction | ENR
Unprecedented research on behavior of skyscrapers has so far determined that U.S. design assumptions generally are valid in predicting building sway. Researchers, who monitored three instrumented Chicago t
Publication Date: 21 November , 2005
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Deadline Looms To Prequalify - McGraw-Hill Construction | ENR
Representatives from nearly 1,000 construction and construction-related firms attended the conference in Crystal City, Va., Nov. 2., where State Dept. officials highlighted some upcoming projects and the timetable for project awards for 2006.
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Publication Date: 14 November , 2005
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DOE Seeking To Reevaluate Yucca Mountain Operation - McGraw-Hill Construction | ENR
The agency instructed Bechtel SAIC, the site’s joint-venture managing contractor, to devise a plan to operate the repository as a non-contaminated facility, which will eliminate construction of several multibillion- dollar buildings for han
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Publication Date: 07 November , 2005
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New Air Force Memorial Taking Shape in Virginia - McGraw-Hill Construction | ENR
The illuminated three-spire structure, which looks like contrails from a split formation, is intended as a tribute to all Air Force personnel and heritage organizations and to the technological achievements of American air power. Dallas-based Ce
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Publication Date: 07 November , 2005
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WTC Report Praised for Effort, Criticized for Vague Content - McGraw-Hill Construction | ENR
The $16-million report’s 30 recommendations, aimed at making commercial buildings stronger and safer, do not differ substantially from those issued in June (ENR 7/4 p. 10). Critics charge that the report, released at an Oct. 26 House Scienc
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Publication Date: 07 November , 2005
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Manhattan High-Rise Is Chock Full Of Jarring Juxtapositions - McGraw-Hill Construction | ENR
The Hearst Building leaves no room for error and has "no forgiveness," says Ted Totten, president of Cives Steel Co.’s Northern Division. The fabricator, based in Gouverneur, N.Y., furnished and erected the job’s 12,000 tons
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Publication Date: 31 October , 2005
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Vacuum Technique Cuts Soil Settlement Time in Half - McGraw-Hill Construction | ENR
To speed up ground settlement at the site of a Vietnamese powerplant, French engineers are vacuuming water from a 16-meter-deep layer of compressible clay. Final ground levels are due to be reached in unde
Publication Date: 31 October , 2005
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Wilma Pounds Florida, Cuba With Surprising Strength - McGraw-Hill Construction | ENR
EQECAT Inc., Oakland, Calif., an extreme risk modeler, says insured losses in Florida could range from $4 billion to $8 billion. Other analysts say the total cost in the U.S. could reach $25 billion. Mexican authorities are estimating close to $
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Publication Date: 31 October , 2005
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NIST Releases Final Report on World Trade Center Collapse - McGraw-Hill Construction | ENR
After more than three years of study, the National Institute of Standards and Technology has issued its final report on why New York City's World Trade Center collapsed in the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist att
Publication Date: 27 October , 2005
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‘Crystalline’ Shape Presents Engineering Challenges - McGraw-Hill Construction | ENR
At a transit-oriented development across the street from Philadelphia’s 30th Street Station, the location is a winner for everyone but the design and construction team. The site is convenient to commu
Publication Date: 17 October , 2005
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Poor-Quality Buildings Downed in Pakistan - McGraw-Hill Construction | ENR
Engineered buildings in Pakistan’s capital city fared well–or not–in the magnitude 7.6 earthquake that hit on Oct. 8, depending on the individual builder, say local sources. Most government
Publication Date: 17 October , 2005
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Call for Robust Partnerships Follows Embassy Update - McGraw-Hill Construction | ENR
The U.S. State Dept.’s Bureau of Overseas Buildings Operations issued the next round of embassy and consulate construction contracts Sept. 30., for new construction worth $1.7 billion. The list is top
Publication Date: 10 October , 2005
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Obstacles and Change Await Katrina Housing Contractors - McGraw-Hill Construction | ENR
FEMA has canceled a previously awarded indefinite delivery, indefinite-quantity contract to Fluor Corp., Aliso Viejo, Calif., to serve in a supervisory role for the temporary housing program in Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama. The agency also
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Publication Date: 10 October , 2005
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Disaster Recovery - Teams Begin To Survey Damage Throughout Gulf - McGraw-Hill Construction | ENR
Many members of NCSEA’s Structural Engineers Emergency Response Plan have already been trained in building safety evaluation. But to date, their offers to help have been in vain. Both the Federal Emergency Management Agency and the U.S. Arm
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Publication Date: 03 October , 2005
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Katrina Exacts Heavy Toll On Gulf Architectural Legacy - McGraw-Hill Construction | ENR
A coalition of nonprofit, professional, and government agencies is moving to protect hurricane-battered historic structures throughout the Gulf region. The Heritage Emergency National Task Force has formed
Publication Date: 03 October , 2005
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Coordination Czar for $21 Billion of Work Is Perfect For The Job - McGraw-Hill Construction | ENR
For Charles Maikish, recently drafted by New York State to coordinate $21 billion worth of public and private investment in less than a square mile of densely packed lower Manhattan, it’s almost d&eac
Publication Date: 19 September, 2005
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Strategy for Seven World Trade Center Exceeds Expectations - McGraw-Hill Construction | ENR
At the dawn of a marketing blitz for tenants to join him in the first office tower to rise from Ground Zero, Seven World Trade Center developer Larry Silverstein is all gab about the souped-up-for-more-sa
Publication Date: 12 September, 2005
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A Reverent Renovation For a Modernist Landmark - McGraw-Hill Construction | ENR
When Illinois Institute of Technology students return to the school’s Chicago campus Aug. 25, they will find its modernist icon, S.R. Crown Hall, much modernized. Contractors this summer completed the
Publication Date: 29 August , 2005
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A Reverent Renovation For a Modernist Landmark - McGraw-Hill Construction | ENR
When Illinois Institute of Technology students return to the school’s Chicago campus Aug. 25, they will find its modernist icon, S.R. Crown Hall, much modernized. Contractors this summer complete
Publication Date: 29 August , 2005
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Bovis To Run Ground Zero Demolition - McGraw-Hill Construction | ENR
The Lower Manhattan Development Corp. has awarded Bovis Lend Lease a $75-million contract to manage demolition and environmental cleanup of the former Deutsche Bank building. The 41-story high-rise south
Publication Date: 29 August , 2005
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Design Groups Concerned About WTC Recommendations - McGraw-Hill Construction | ENR
After lauding the massive effort, design groups blast or question the majority of the recommendations for changes to building codes, standards and practice in the federal draft building and safety report o
Publication Date: 15 August , 2005
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Engineering is Key to Silence At New Nanotechnology Lab - McGraw-Hill Construction | ENR
Designers challenged with creating a laboratory for vibration-sensitive nanotechnology research on a tight, steep site with a fire-lane cutting off one corner have found a solution by going both up and dow
Publication Date: 15 August , 2005
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Bovis Awarded Demolition Contract for Ground Zero's Contaminated Deutsche
The Lower Manhattan Development Corp., the agency coordinating the rebuilding of post-Sept. 11 lower Manhattan has awarded new contracts to cover the long-controversial demolition of the former Deutsche B
Publication Date: 12 August , 2005
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McGraw-Hill Construction | New York City announces $700-million bioscience complex in Manhattan
East River Science Park
Publication Date: 11 August , 2005
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Seismologist and Earthquake Hazard Expert Bruce Bolt Dies at 75 - McGraw-Hill Construction | ENR
Bruce A. Bolt, California Seismic Safety Commissioner, respected UC Berkeley professor, author and international seismic consultant, died Thursday, July 21, of pancreatic cancer at Kaiser Permanente Medica
Publication Date: 02 August , 2005
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Congress, as Owner, Presses Capitol Visitor Center Team - McGraw-Hill Construction | ENR
No owner of a complex construction project sees the job completed without some headaches, and the U.S. Congress is no exception. The 535-member owner of the estimated $550-million U.S. Capitol Visitor Cent
Publication Date: 01 August , 2005
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Embassy’s Photovoltaic System Helps Geneva’s Grid - McGraw-Hill Construction | ENR
The U.S. State Dept.’s design for an upgraded embassy in Geneva, Switzerland, has a $1.6-million photovoltaic panel network with a fully-integrated solar electric system–the first for a U.S. dipl
Publication Date: 01 August , 2005
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Epic Rehab Helps Religious Center Stay for Centuries - McGraw-Hill Construction | ENR
It is taking more than a leap of faith for a world religion to restore its historic temple near Chicago and protect the building’s complex precast cladding against rain, wind and ice for centuries to
Publication Date: 01 August , 2005
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82% of Deaths Were in Homes
Last year, 82% of all civilian fire deaths occurred in the home and 78% of fires in structures occurred in residential properties, reports the National Fire Protection Association. There were 3,190 deaths
Publication Date: 25 July , 2005
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Recommendations Gain Qualified Support - McGraw-Hill Construction | ENR
A high-rise safety advisory committee for the National Fire Protection Association has registered qualified support for most of the recent federal recommendations for changes to building codes and standard
Publication Date: 25 July , 2005
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Structural Engineers Labor To Unravel Mysteries of Building Codes
"You’re in big trouble if you design a new building structure and don’t meet the letter of the code," says Schwinger, quality assurance manager at Cagley Harman & Associates, King of Prussia, Pa. "Even if there is no
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Publication Date: 18 July , 2005
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Full Replacement Set for Arena Roof
Both the roof panels and possibly also the vapor barrier of the Petersen Events Center will be replaced, says John Jennings, Pittsburgh’s assistant chief building inspector. Apart from its size, the design is not unusual, says Jennings.
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Publication Date: 11 July , 2005
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Princeton Prepares for Class Of 2010 with Major Expansion
The scope of the program is ambitious for a relatively small university. "There are certainly universities with bigger programs than ours, but in dollars per student, ours is probably one of the largest," says John Ziegler, assistant t
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Publication Date: 11 July , 2005
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Team Races To Revise Freedom Tower Plans
While the world lauds or derides the redesigned Freedom Tower at the World Trade Center, reworked from bottom to top and shifted 65 ft to the east to meet New York City Police Dept. security concerns, the
Publication Date: 11 July , 2005
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In California Farm Country, University Builds A Campus From Scratch
The new location will be the University of California’s tenth campus but the first in the Central Valley, where college attendance has trailed the rest of the state. "When [officials] began exploring the idea of a new campus in the lat
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Publication Date: 04 July , 2005
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