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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San Diego's Ballpark Neighborhood Is a Grand Slam Against Slums
There’s victory in the air around San Diego’s ballpark neighborhood, a 26-block section of the city’s most blighted area. Never mind that opening day at the $452.6-million PETCO Park, the ne
Publication Date: 08 March , 2004
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San Diego's Ballpark Neighborhood Is a Grand Slam Against Slums
There’s victory in the air around San Diego’s ballpark neighborhood, a 26-block section of the city’s most blighted area. Never mind that opening day at the $452.6-million PETCO Park, the ne
Publication Date: 08 March , 2004
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Theme Mania Sparks Urban Renewal
Deliberately using sports venues as "locomotives to create a sense of place and destination in a no-man’s land" is "revolutionary thinking," says Marc Salette, a partner in Gehry Partners, Los Angeles, master planner and
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Publication Date: 08 March , 2004
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Theme Mania Sparks Urban Renewal
Deliberately using sports venues as "locomotives to create a sense of place and destination in a no-man’s land" is "revolutionary thinking," says Marc Salette, a partner in Gehry Partners, Los Angeles, master planner and
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Publication Date: 08 March , 2004
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Sandblasters To Tone Down Glare-Prone Section of Skin
Publication Date: 01 March , 2004
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WWII Tribute Nearly Ready A Decade After Conception
The controversial World War II Memorial will be dedicated May 29 in Washington, D.C., more than 10 years after plans were first announced and longer than it took Allied Forces to defeat Germany, Italy and
Publication Date: 01 March , 2004
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Las Vegas Hosts Another Large Continuous Concrete Pour
About 130 trucks and 191 people placed 11,730 cu yd of concrete in 16.5 hours as crews poured the concrete mat foundation for a new $289-million, 26-story hotel tower at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas on Feb.
Publication Date: 16 February , 2004
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Performance-Based Design Tops Research Wish List
Dismissing the exemplary performance record of high-rise steel structures in "pure" fires, attendees of a government-sponsored workshop on fire safety voted for a blue-ribbon committee to develop
Publication Date: 16 February , 2004
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Team Struggles To Impose Order on Chaos
The flashy silver "lion" with an unruly mane enthroned in Chicago’s $475-million Millennium Park is the city’s first Frank O. Gehry structure. And the "newbies" chugging along
Publication Date: 09 February , 2004
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Demographics Drive Market Kids Keep School Work Going Strong
School construction, spurred on by a surge in student enrollments, has been one of the industry’s strongest markets over the last decade. While state fiscal problems are expected to slow the double-di
Publication Date: 02 February , 2004
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Museum, District Collaborate To Build An Unusual Hybrid
In South Central Los Angeles, an area long plagued by overcrowded schools, the offspring of a partnership between the district and a state-owned science museum is taking shape. The progeny of the collabora
Publication Date: 02 February , 2004
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New Jersey Officials Focus on Bringing In New Blood
Perth Amboy may be a typical old-line industrial town in New Jersey, but town officials are hardly using a traditional approach to build a new $100-million high school. Eager to move away from the status q
Publication Date: 02 February , 2004
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To Help Save Time, Structural Engineer Wears Harder Hat
Washington’s Tacoma Public School District has become a reluctant pioneer in the slow-but-steady paradigm shift toward computer-aided design and construction, thanks to a convincing argument from the
Publication Date: 02 February , 2004
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Engineer Defined Modern Principles of Structural Concrete
Chester P. Siess, prominent structural engineer and scholar, died Jan. 14 in Urbana, Ill. He was 87 years old.
Publication Date: 27 January , 2004
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World Trade Center Project Likely To Cost $350 Million
On Jan. 14, the Lower Manhattan Development Corp., with New York Gov. George E. Pataki (R) and Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg (R), unveiled the revised design of Reflecting Absence, the memorial competition winner announced Jan. 6 (ENR 1/12 p. 7). B
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Publication Date: 26 January , 2004
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Research May Never Pinpoint Sequence of Events on 9/11
Officials leading the federal investigation into the destruction of the World Trade Center say the $16-million study may never determine the exact sequence of events that led to the collapses triggered by
Publication Date: 19 January , 2004
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Officials Release Revised Design for World Trade Center Memorial
On Jan. 14, after weeks of collaboration with World Trade Center master planner Daniel Libeskind, the Lower Manhattan Development Corp. unveiled the revised design of World Trade Center memorial comp
Publication Date: 14 January , 2004
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‘Reflecting Absence’ Picked For World Trade Center Site
A revised version of architect Michael Arad’s and landscape architect Peter Walker’s combined vision for the memorial to the victims of Sept. 11, 2001, will be unveiled this week, says the Lower
Publication Date: 12 January , 2004
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Cheap Homes, Rich Benefits
The residential corridor between southeast Chicago and northwest Indiana once was a vibrant community whose inhabitants thrived under the success of the domestic steel industry and its plentiful job opport
Publication Date: 12 January , 2004
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McGraw-Hill Construction | ENR - Building Feature Articles
Publication Date: 01 January , 2004
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McGraw-Hill Construction | ENR - Building Projects Articles
Publication Date: 01 January , 2004
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Earthquake Hits California
A magnitude 6.5 earthquake struck central California Dec. 22, triggering the collapse of a two-story masonry commercial structure in downtown Paso Robles, about halfway between Los Angeles and San Francisc
Publication Date: 29 December , 2003
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Tower’s Top Adapted From Bridge Design
Work on the planned Freedom Tower at Manhattan’s World Trade Center is throttling up, now that schematic design for what is being touted as the world’s next tallest building is out. With the WTC
Publication Date: 29 December , 2003
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Unreinforced Masonry Construction Caused High Death Toll in Iranian Quake
Traditional materials used in most buildings destroyed by the late-night Dec. 26 Iranian earthquake contributed to the high death count, according to local observers. As international rescue teams prepared
Publication Date: 29 December , 2003
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Freedom Tower Design Unveiled
Tishman Construction Corp., the contractor for the original World Trade Center complex and the firm managing construction of the replacement for Seven WTC, has been named as the builder of the planned 1,77
Publication Date: 19 December , 2003
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Trade Center Probe Clears Data Hurdles
Federal officials say they have reached a milestone in the progress of the $16-million federal building and fire safety investigation into the destruction of the World Trade Center on Sept. 11, 2001. The U
Publication Date: 15 December , 2003
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Turkish Blasts Prompt Debate
At the consulate, 10 staff members died when a suicide bomber detonated explosives outside the mid-19th Century building complex. Staff had been temporarily located in offices just inside the perimeter wall for repairs to the central main mansio
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Publication Date: 01 December , 2003
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Work Resumes in Berlin On Holocaust Memorial
Work recently resumed on Germany’s $32.5-million Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe, after a supplier was suspended over its World War II role in the holocaust. More than 30 of the planned 2,751
Publication Date: 24 November , 2003
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WTC Memorial To Be Chosen From Eight Designs
The 13-member jury charged with selecting the winner of the World Trade Center memorial competition expects to render its decision by year's end. Between now and then, the jury will be deciding which of th
Publication Date: 19 November , 2003
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Chicago Sprinkler Debate Heats Up Around Residential High-Rises
After what fire engineers are calling a "landmark" high-rise blaze in downtown Chicago last month, the city now is faced with two retroactive ordinance proposals mandating that owners install spr
Publication Date: 18 November , 2003
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Shipping Containers Show Promise for Living Space
With tens of thousands of empty shipping containers clutteringAmerica’s seaports, one New York City architectural firm has developed a novel idea for converting the ubiquitous metal boxes into low-cos
Publication Date: 17 November , 2003
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House Approves 13% Cut in Military Construction
The Senate has approved legislation that trims the Dept. of Defense's fiscal 2004 construction budget by 13%, to $9.3 billion. The Senate's 98-0 approval on Nov. 12 is the final congressional action on the
Publication Date: 13 November , 2003
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Seattle's Eccentric 'Book Behemoth' Shatters Stereotypes
Seattle's 412,000-sq-ft "book bag" has been cheered as outrageous architecture and reviled as architectural outrage. Rem Koolhaas, the Dutch "starchitect" for the $154-million library, reminiscent of a st
Publication Date: 03 November , 2003
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Lynn Beedle, Founder of Tall Buildings Council, Has Died at 85
Lynn S. Beedle, founder of the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat, died Oct. 30. He was 85.
Publication Date: 31 October , 2003
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Deadly Blaze Raises Same Old Questions
A limited but deadly blaze in a 35-story Cook County office building in Chicago has raised not only the question of retroactive codes for fire sprinkler systems but the question of requiring pressurized st
Publication Date: 27 October , 2003
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Building Materials Sho Artsy Side
A new exhibit at the National Building Museum in Washington, D.C., takes an unorthodox look at traditional building materials including stone, tile, brick and concrete block. Four architects who worked wit
Publication Date: 20 October , 2003
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McGraw-Hill Construction | ENR - Chicago's Soldier Field To Cost "$50 million Over Budget
The Chicago Bears Football Club, lessee of the recently unveiled Soldier Field (ENR 9/29 p. 9), has revised its cost estimate for the stadium and expects overruns to hit as high as $50 million. According t
Publication Date: 15 October , 2003
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Experts Debate Using Structure To Resist Fire Loads on a Structure
At a recent workshop on fire safety design and retrofit of structures, there were almost as many opinions about the role of structure in fire resistance as there were building research and practice discipl
Publication Date: 13 October , 2003
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Smithsonian Jewel Set to Open Thanks to a $60-Million Gift
Over 20 years in planning, the Smithsonian Institution’s new National Air and Space Museum is nearing completion in Chantilly, Va. But without a private donation of $60 million, it probably would neve
Publication Date: 06 October , 2003
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Calatrava Dropped as Designer Of Oakland’s New Cathedral
Three years after the Diocese of Oakland, Calif., awarded Zurich-based Santiago Calatrava the commission for the Cathedral of Christ the Light, the architect and client have gone their separate ways, "
Publication Date: 29 September, 2003
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Team At Odds On Miami Job
Owner accusations of poor quality control and excessive errors have builders of the Performing Arts Center of Greater Miami scratching their heads. "We’ve never seen anything like this before,
Publication Date: 22 September, 2003
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California's Adoption of New Standard Creates Controversy
As California’s Oct. 7 recall election rivets the nation, a potentially far-reaching, if less sensational, dispute is simmering over the state’s adoption of a model building code written by the N
Publication Date: 15 September, 2003
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Call Center Reconstruction Continues At Trade Center Disaster Site
Repairs to Verizon Communication's 32-story call center on the north side of the World Trade Center site are at various stages of completion. The project has peaked for the last couple of months with almos
Publication Date: 11 September, 2003
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Hope Turns to Faith In $10-Billion Rebuild
Two years after terrorists reduced the 12-million-sq-ft World Trade Center to rubble, officials charged with the site’s $10-billion redevelopment are cautiously celebrating the end of a major bottlene
Publication Date: 08 September, 2003
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Army Engineers on Front Line After U.N. Blast in Baghdad
The 203rd Engineer Battalion had two objectives after being dispatched to the United Nations compound after it was struck by a truck bomb on August 19. "First, we tried to secure the communication ant
Publication Date: 01 September, 2003
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Long-Shuttered Gem Ready To Reopen in Golden Gate Park
Curators are putting finishing touches on exhibits at San Francisco’s Conservatory of Flowers, following a $25-million restoration that involved almost complete disassembly and reconstruction.
Publication Date: 01 September, 2003
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Monster Wood Ceiling Crowns City of Angels’ Music Heaven
On June 30, the Los Angeles Philharmonic first took to the stage of the new, $274-million Walt Disney Concert Hall and played Mozart, Beethoven and Stravinsky to a very select group. The "house"
Publication Date: 11 August , 2003
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New Shake Table in California Based on a Solid Proposition
Earthquake shake tables are rarely found outside the halls of academia, but one company is taking a $10-million plunge into the research business. Simpson Strong-Tie Co., a structural connections manufactu
Publication Date: 11 August , 2003
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Emergency Seismic Upgrade Turns Into Major Production
For the cast involved with the $127-million overhaul of the Seattle Center's opera and ballet theater, the reality drama that began in 1994 with unsettling results of a seismic study is likely more rivetin
Publication Date: 28 July , 2003
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Structural Engineers Try to Boost Quality
A Guideline Addressing Coordination and Completeness of Structural Construction Documents is "intended for information purposes only" and "not to be regarded as legal advice." But it is likely to set a new standard of care, s
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Publication Date: 21 July , 2003
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Collapse in Shanghai
The collapse of a subway station's pedestrian tunnel being built near the Huangpu River caused the July 1 collapse of a floodwall at the project site, leading to a massive influx of water in the tunnel and
Publication Date: 14 July , 2003
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National Building Museum Names New President
After a search of several months, the National Building Museum announced on July 11 that it has named Tennessee museum official Chase W. Rynd as its new president. Rynd, 57, is the founding executive direc
Publication Date: 14 July , 2003
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Taiwan Tower Is On Course To Break World Height Record
With the topping out of structural steel on July 1, a tower in Taiwan is on track to become the world’s tallest building upon completion next year.
Publication Date: 14 July , 2003
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Senate Votes to Cut DOD Construction 14% for 2004
Publication Date: 11 July , 2003
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Angles, Stresses, Strains Add Up to Beehive of Activity In New York
There is nothing small potatoes about this Big Apple job–said to be the largest commercial development in the city since the 12-million-sq-ft World Trade Center that opened in the early 1970s. AOL Time Warner is financed by a $1.3-billion l
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Publication Date: 07 July , 2003
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Mold Fix Puts Expensive End To School District Legal Battle
Along legal struggle between contractors and a school district near Fresno, Calif., has come to a costly end as an extensive mold abatement project begins this summer at a 10-year-old high school complex.
Publication Date: 07 July , 2003
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Damper-Studded Diamonds
Standing on seismic Mexico City's dry central lake bed or "bowl of jello," where many buildings collapsed in 1985's magnitude 7.3 earthquake, Latin America's tallest building might be mistaken fo
Publication Date: 30 June , 2003
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$1-Million Kinetic 'Skylight' Is Showstopper in Illinois
At a 1,100-seat theater at Rock Valley College in Rockford, Ill., the curtain isn’t the only thing that goes up.
Publication Date: 16 June , 2003
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Focus Shifts To Persuading Owners To Use Data-Sharing Tool
"The ostensible news is the release of IFC 2x2," which has increased capability for activities such as architecture, and electrical and structural engineering, said Stephen E. Selkowitz, department head in the Building Technologies Div
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Publication Date: 26 May , 2003
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