Green Builders Tackling Sensitive Technical Issues
Proponents of sustainable buildings are grappling with technically difficult and politically charged issues, particularly relating to the use of refrigerants in mechanical systems. The issue rose to the s
Publication Date: 22 November , 2004
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Caracas Tower Floor Beams Deflected but Did Not Collapse
The origin of the fire on the 34th floor, where crews had been painting, is still under investigation by a "technical-scientific" subcommission. Caracas Fire Chief Rodolfo Briceno says progress is slow because of the danger implicit in
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Publication Date: 15 November , 2004
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Rating System Makes Headway
The U.S. Green Building Council is launching its LEED for Existing Buildings rating system. Independently, San Francisco’s green building ordinance went into effect recently. To date, 10 cities requi
Publication Date: 08 November , 2004
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Contractors Join Fight To Stamp Out Killer Hospitals
The numbers are shocking. More people die each year in hospital accidents than in car accidents. According to the Centers for Disease Control, a patient has nearly a one in 20 chance of picking up a so-called nosocomial infection in a hospital.
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Publication Date: 01 November , 2004
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WTC Findings Uphold Structural Design
Structural and fire experts are gratified but not surprised by the latest "interim" findings of the National Institute of Standards and Technology on the behavior of the World Trade Center’s
Publication Date: 01 November , 2004
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Annan Seeks Additional Security Funds for U.N.
United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan has proposed an additional $97 million to upgrade security at the U.N.'s headquarters complex in New York City and field offices in other countries. The proposal
Publication Date: 28 October , 2004
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Firms Dig In to Clean Up Damaged Florida Hospitals
Thanks to visits this summer by hurricanes Charley, Frances, Ivan and Jeanne, Nashville-based healthcare giant HCA Inc. estimates its 42 florida hospitals need $40 million of repairs. Damage ranges from leaky roofs and blown-out windows to colla
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Publication Date: 25 October , 2004
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Second WTC Insurance Trial Looks to Settle $1.1-Billion Dispute
The NIST report can be found at www.nist.gov/public_affairs/releases/wtc_ latest_ findings_1004.htm.
Publication Date: 25 October , 2004
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Venezuela's Tallest Building Can Be Salvaged After Blaze
A fire that started on the 34th floor of the building on Saturday night, Oct. 16, burned for nearly a day, thanks to locked stairwells and a faulty sprinkler system. A commission formed to study the incident will report findings to Venezuela
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Publication Date: 25 October , 2004
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McGraw-Hill Construction | ENR - World Trade Center Investigation "Exonerates" Twin Towers' Design in Sept. 11, 2001 Collapse
Structural steel of the twin 110-story towers of the World Trade Center was stripped of its fireproofing by debris from the aircraft impact and weakened by the resulting fires, eventually causing the towe
Publication Date: 21 October , 2004
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Architects Chosen For Cultural Complex at WTC
The Lower Manhattan Development Corp. has announced the selection of Los Angeles-based Gehry Partners and Oslo, Norway’s Snøhetta as architects for the cultural complex on the World Trade Cente
Publication Date: 18 October , 2004
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London Has Big Designs On 'Europe's Tallest' Title
Engineers in London are completing preliminary design for what will be Europe’s tallest building. Depending on market conditions, London Bridge Tower could be up to its full height, just under 310 m,
Publication Date: 18 October , 2004
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Art Museum in Golden Gate Park is Full of Twists And Turns
The sprawling, low-slung roof undulates like sand dunes. Copper cladding, dimpled and perforated to mimic daylight shining through leaves, lets in the sun and sky and will oxidize to a leafy green patina.
Publication Date: 11 October , 2004
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Probe Blames Fire Deaths On Conflicting Building Codes
The 11-month study outlines 81 administrative failures that led to six deaths and 13 injuries in the "typical" office fire. "We were critical of just about everybody," says James Lee Witt, chairman of the eponymous Washington
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Publication Date: 11 October , 2004
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HOK, Leader of the 'Home Team,'Selected to Design Kansas City Arena
Kansas City, Mo., yesterday selected the most prolific sports architect in the country, HOK Sport+Venue+Event, as the lead architect for the city's new $250-million arena. The HOK unit is based in Kans
Publication Date: 01 October , 2004
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Temporary Pools Plunge Into Indiana Arena
Members of an Indianapolis design-build team are racing against the clock to build a temporary natatorium inside a 10,000-seat basketball arena. The work prepares Conseco Fieldhouse, home of the Indiana Pa
Publication Date: 01 October , 2004
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Building Codes In Balance
In Alabama and Louisiana, the International Building Code is used as a statewide code. It is also tougher than its predecessor in that it contains higher wind-speed design levels for hurricane prone coasta
Publication Date: 27 September, 2004
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Engineers Sink Nazi U-Boat For Chicago Naval Exhibit
Engineers working for a Chicago museum knew it would be difficult enough to move a 700-ton Nazi submarine 1,000 ft and squeeze it into a 42-ft-deep, underground exhibit, but they first had to figure out h
Publication Date: 20 September, 2004
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Results of Truss Fire Tests Rattle Design Assumptions
FLOOR SPECIMEN. 17-ft-long assembly with 1/2-in. fireproofing, before the Aug. 25 test.
Publication Date: 13 September, 2004
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Skyscraping Enthusiasm
Frank J. Sciame Jr. has extra-special affection of late for the Brooklyn Bridge. It all began one day in 1999, when he stood on his favorite structure and gazed back at the East River’s historic seapo
Publication Date: 13 September, 2004
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World Trade Center Building Push Nears
For the first time since terrorists destroyed the World Trade Center on Sept. 11, 2001, officials leading lower Manhattan’s $7-billion redevelopment are issuing a collective sigh of relief. Though the
Publication Date: 13 September, 2004
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World Trade Center's Rebuilders Find Opportunity In the Face of Tragedy
Larry Silverstein owes his life to his fair complexion, his wife of 48 years and two simple words that saved his skin. To resolve an argument three years ago, the 73-year-old developer uttered, "Yes,
Publication Date: 13 September, 2004
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Florida Changes Building Codes Between Storms
With the buzzsaw blade of another major hurricane taking aim at south Florida, the Florida Building Commission, meeting in Fort Lauderdale, focused its attention on proposed changes to the state's building
Publication Date: 02 September, 2004
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Deal Cut To Expedite Miami Arts Center Job
The owner, architect and builder of the $419-million Miami Performing Arts Center have reached a $44-million settlement that is expected to put the high- profile project on positive footing after years of
Publication Date: 30 August , 2004
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Florida Recovery Focuses On Housing, Services, Debris
Clean-up crews working in the area ravaged by Hurricane Charley’s Aug. 13 rampage through Florida say the work is well under way and shifting from the response to the recovery phase. Some believe the
Publication Date: 30 August , 2004
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Chicago Scrutinizes Problems At Baseball’s Wrigley Field
Chicago officials are studying recent repairs made to Wrigley Field, the Cubs’ 90-year-old baseball park, following three incidents this summer when chunks of delaminated concrete fell from underneath
Publication Date: 23 August , 2004
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New Florida Codes Bring Mixed Success
In a truly unlucky day for millions of homeowners, Hurricane Charley blasted through parts of southwestern and central Florida on Friday, Aug. 13. Winds of up to 145 mph blew aparts utilities, buildings a
Publication Date: 23 August , 2004
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Boston Building Uses a Little Of Everything to Gain Foothold
Building a 30-story residential high-rise on a tight site in downtown Boston has challenged the foundation contractor to create an excavation support system that eliminates bracing and tiebacks and uses on
Publication Date: 02 August , 2004
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945-ft 'Glass' Skyscraper May End Up Greenest of Them All
As planned, the 2.1-million-sq-ft office tower will have all the usual bells and whistles of a high-performance skyscraper and then some. A proposed anaerobic digester plant to produce methane from food waste and a "green" roof may not material
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Publication Date: 26 July , 2004
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House Approves 2% Boost for DOD Constructions
The House passed a 2005 spending bill that would increase Dept. of Defense construction spending a modest 2%, to $10 billion. But on the House floor, a provision was stripped out that would have expanded the Pentagon's program of using private d
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Publication Date: 26 July , 2004
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Officials Look to R&D Clusters as A Development Catalyst
Since the founding of Stanford Research Park in Menlo Park, Calif., in the 1950s, research parks have seen an explosion of growth. Now, their development is tied to life sciences, a field seen by its pract
Publication Date: 19 July , 2004
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Officials Look to R&D Clusters as A Development Catalyst
Since the founding of Stanford Research Park in Menlo Park, Calif., in the 1950s, research parks have seen an explosion of growth. Now, their development is tied to life sciences, a field seen by its pract
Publication Date: 19 July , 2004
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Public, Private Sectors Are Busy Chasing R&D's Frontiers
One key area of federal R&D investment now is in nanotechnology–the emerging field of molecular and atomic level research, from one to 100 nanometers. A nanometer is one-billionth of a meter. The National Nanotechnology Initiative, laun
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Publication Date: 19 July , 2004
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Public, Private Sectors Are Busy Chasing R&D's Frontiers
One key area of federal R&D investment now is in nanotechnology–the emerging field of molecular and atomic level research, from one to 100 nanometers. A nanometer is one-billionth of a meter. The National Nanotechnology Initiative, laun
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Publication Date: 19 July , 2004
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R&D Market Is Industry's New Testing Lab
Construction industry firms have long followed science, designing and building structures that allow research to move from untested concept to proven reality. As 21st-Century R&D explodes in new direct
Publication Date: 19 July , 2004
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R&D Market Is Industry's New Testing Lab
Construction industry firms have long followed science, designing and building structures that allow research to move from untested concept to proven reality. As 21st-Century R&D explodes in new direct
Publication Date: 19 July , 2004
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Questions Raised Over Steel Roof Struts
External tubular steel struts puncturing the shell-like concrete roof of Paris Charles de Gaulle Airport’s newest concourse likely triggered the May 23 collapse, say preliminary findings of a French g
Publication Date: 12 July , 2004
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Columns Likely Failed First in Terrorist-Triggered WTC Fires
The June 18 announcement in New York City, made by Shyam Sunder of the National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, Md., implies that floor trusses, under close scrutiny since 9/11, did not fail first.
Publication Date: 28 June , 2004
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315-Meter-Span Roof Arch Pivoted into Place in London
Starting in late May, the arch lift was delayed by several weeks, in part because of repairs to faulty welds, according to the main contractor. “Every weld on the arch is nondestructively tested...because the arch is such a critical element
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Publication Date: 21 June , 2004
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Stacked Theater for Texas
On June 9, the Dallas Center for the Performing Arts Foundation unveiled the design for a 600-seat multiform theater by the Office for Metropolitan Architecture of Rotterdam and New York City—architec
Publication Date: 21 June , 2004
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Sustainable Development Tops the List of Priorities
Skokie, Ill.-based PCA introduced the Cement Manufacturing Sustainability Program June 11 in Chicago at the American Institute of Architects 2004 National Convention and Design Exposition. The theme of sustainable development permeated the June
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Publication Date: 21 June , 2004
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October Groundbreaking Seen for New Berlin Complex
In 1996, State picked a team led by Moore Ruble Yudell Architects with Gruen Associates to design the building, next to the Brandenburg Gate on Pariser Platz, the site of a former
Publication Date: 07 June , 2004
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Skyscrapers' Supporters Infuriated By Fire Fearmongers
"My husband and 3,000 other innocent victims–people that want to work in what they thought was a safe environment–were slaughtered by the buildings, not the planes…. The need for reform of not only the
Publication Date: 07 June , 2004
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VA Plans $888 Million Construction Program for Rest of 2004
Moving quickly on its new, multi-year, multi-billion-dollar facilities program, the Dept. of Veterans Affairs has drawn up an ambitious 2004 blueprint. In an interim report sent to Congress on May 20, VA s
Publication Date: 07 June , 2004
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Focus on Construction of Columns at Airport
Construction problems with supports of the vaulted concrete concourse that partially collapsed early on May 23 at the year-old Terminal 2E at Paris Charles de Gaulle Airport will likely be a focus of inves
Publication Date: 31 May , 2004
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Old Store’s Delicate Crown Is Lifted to New Heights
The 62-ft-tall, 100-ft-dia dome, along with one façade of the old store, will be incorporated in a $410-million, 1-million-sq-ft addition to San Francisco Center, a retail complex owned by Westfield America Trust and Forest City Enterpris
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Publication Date: 31 May , 2004
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Biggest Public Building in Massachusetts Maintains Low Profile
Publication Date: 24 May , 2004
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Investigators Probe Collapse of Paris Airport Concourse
With little warning, the collapse occurred along a roughly 30-m-long section concourse built on an elevated platform in front of the $900-million Terminal 2E main building. Clad in glass, the 650-m-long concourse building is enclosed by a concre
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Publication Date: 24 May , 2004
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Supreme Court Allows Accessibility Lawsuits Concerning State Courthouses
The U.S. Supreme Court has handed disability rights advocates a victory, though a more limited one than they had sought. The high court on May 17 ruled that states could be sued under the 1990 Americans Wi
Publication Date: 18 May , 2004
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Structural Reviews Slow California’s Seismic Upgrades
In reaction, state lawmakers introduced a bill in February, supported by dozens of hospitals and systems, that would establish a 90-day state review period for both new construction and remodeling projects. The bill is in committee.
Publication Date: 10 May , 2004
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VA Secretary Approves Massive Construction Affairs
In an effort to match its facilities to the current needs of veterans, the Dept. of Veterans Affairs has approved a plan that proposes more than $5 billion in construction and renovation over the next sev
Publication Date: 10 May , 2004
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CSI Divisions Expand But Not to Everyone’s Liking
As Hellmuth, Obata + Kassabaum Inc. CEO Patrick MacLeamy urges the construction industry to change its processes—by standardizing more and collaborating differently—the Construction Specification
Publication Date: 03 May , 2004
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Fatal-Fire Probes Raise Legal Issues
When the Illinois Dept. of Labor issued 16 safety citations to the City of Chicago and Cook County on April 15, it attacked local government for the deaths of six office workers caught in an Oct. 17 high-r
Publication Date: 03 May , 2004
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Transparent Curtain Walls Perform Well in Blast Tests
Open architecture does not have to be sacrificed in this age of security jitters. So said experts during a recent conference in Chicago called “Transparency: the Art and Science in Building Design,
Publication Date: 03 May , 2004
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508-m Taipei Megatower •Anointedê Worldês Tallest
A 508-meter-tall skyscraper nearing completion in Taiwan’s capital has grabbed the title of world’s tallest building from the 452-m-tall twin Petronas Towers in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. The realig
Publication Date: 26 April , 2004
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Manhattan May Get 835-Ft-Tall Tower
Dismissing those who might feel skittish about living in a supertall building a stone’s throw from the World Trade Center site, a local developer-contractor recently announced a plan to build an 835-f
Publication Date: 29 March , 2004
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$2.5-Billion Brooklyn Minicity Could Create Exclusive New Address
Brooklyn’s proposed $2.5-billion arena project, if built, would take the urban sports village to new heights, depths and lengths. The phased, 7.7-million-sq-ft megadevelopment in the New York City bo
Publication Date: 08 March , 2004
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$2.5-Billion Brooklyn Minicity Could Create Exclusive New Address
Brooklyn’s proposed $2.5-billion arena project, if built, would take the urban sports village to new heights, depths and lengths. The phased, 7.7-million-sq-ft megadevelopment in the New York City bo
Publication Date: 08 March , 2004
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Deutsche Bank To Demolish Lower Manhattan Building
With a nudge from government officials, Germany’s Deutsche Bank and its insurers have reached a long-awaited agreement over the bank’s Sept. 11, 2001-damaged office building next to Ground Zero
Publication Date: 08 March , 2004
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Pittsburgh's Long-Dormant North Shore Shows Signs of Life
Three years after the opening of a football stadium and a ballpark, the strategy to revitalize Pittsburgh’s North Shore is beginning to bear fruit. When complete, the $240 million of construction, pl
Publication Date: 08 March , 2004
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