Baseball Park in Nation’s Capital Is on Its Way to Breek the Speed - ENR | McGraw-Hill Construction
“We’re probably pushing the limits of fast track,” says Rick “Buck” Buckovich, senior project manager for structural steel and precast for Clark/Hunt/Smoot (CHS). The Bethesda, Md.-based design-build joint venture
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Publication Date: 05 December , 2007
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Baseball Park in Nation's Capital Is on Its Way to Breek the Speed Record - ENR | McGraw-Hill Construction
"We're probably pushing the limits of fast track," says Rick "Buck" Buckovich, senior project manager for structural steel and precast for Clark/Hunt/Smoot (CHS). The Bethesda, Md.-based design-build joint venture is led by Clark Construction
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Publication Date: 05 December , 2007
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Capital Ballpark Benefits from Earlier Experience - ENR | McGraw-Hill Construction
Two years ago, Burns’ colleagues in the Washington, D.C., office of Thornton- Tomasetti started using a newer version of XSteel, Tekla Structures, on the D.C. Major League Baseball Park. It has been a completely different ball game as the
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Publication Date: 05 December , 2007
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Green Rating Almost a Labor of Love - ENR | McGraw-Hill Construction
HOK estimates it takes 600 hours for architectural documentation and administration when it submits an office building design for LEED certification by the U.S. Green Building Council. For the D.C. Major
Publication Date: 05 December , 2007
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Pier Pressure May Make Or Break Spire - ENR | McGraw-Hill Construction
Publication Date: 05 December , 2007
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No Matter What You Call It, This Is One Strange Structure - ENR | McGraw-Hill Construction
The scientific nomenclature is Alces alces, which is known as an elk in Sweden and a moose in North America. In either case, it's a very unusual model for a structure.
Publication Date: 30 November , 2007
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Developers Shift to Mixed-Use, Office Projects in Wake of Housing Dive - ENR | McGraw-Hill Construction
Mixed-use complexes with offices on upper floors and retail spaces at street level are cropping up in towns and cities across the nation as developers ride the momentum of a stoked economy that is keeping businesses’ and retail buyer
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Publication Date: 21 November , 2007
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Homebuilders’ Verification Tool Aims To Audit Green - ENR | McGraw-Hill Construction
The National Association of Homebuilders is testing a verifiable, green residential construction certification program built around the association’s Green Building Guidelines. The trial, which runs
Publication Date: 21 November , 2007
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MGM Mirage and Dubai World Conclude Vegas CityCenter Deal - ENR | McGraw-Hill Construction
MGM Mirage and Dubai World, four months after its initial announcement, completed their joint-venture agreement on Nov.15, resulting in a 50/50 ownership of the $7.4-billion CityCenter mixed-use developmen
Publication Date: 19 November , 2007
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Building Energy Retrofits, ‘Eco-Calculators’ Sprouting - ENR | McGraw-Hill Construction
Publication Date: 14 November , 2007
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If You Verify, They Will Buy: Refining Green Home Standards - ENR | McGraw-Hill Construction
The National Association of Homebuilders is running a trial of a new, verifiable, green residential construction certification program built around the association's Green Building Guidelines. The test, wh
Publication Date: 14 November , 2007
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MIT Sues Gehry and Skanska Over Alleged Building Flaws - ENR | McGraw-Hill Construction
Publication Date: 14 November , 2007
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USGBC to Revamp Green Building Rating System - ENR | McGraw-Hill Construction
The U.S. Green Building Council is planning to revamp its popular Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design green building rating system, in an effort to make it more user-friendly. USGBC, which hopes
Publication Date: 09 November , 2007
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Energy Performance Data Largely Lacking - ENR | McGraw-Hill Construction
While there are awareness-raisers galore about the need to put buildings on crash energy diets, there is an equivalent dearth of performance data to indicate whether new buildings designed to be “gre
Publication Date: 07 November , 2007
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Sky-High Building to Link CCTV Headquarters Towers- ENR | McGraw-Hill Construction
With steelwork for the two leaning towers of Beijing’s 234-m-tall Chinese Central Television Headquarters building now in place, engineers are preparing to link their tops with a bridge building. The
Publication Date: 06 November , 2007
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Code Changes Offered To Calm Jittery Building Officials - ENR | McGraw-Hill Construction
Proposed 2009 International Building Code changes for risk assessment and structural integrity are supported by the 15 industry organizations involved in their crafting. But sources say the proposals are u
Publication Date: 31 October , 2007
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Contractors to Break Ground for Virginia Army Hospital - ENR | McGraw-Hill Construction
Groundbreaking is scheduled Nov. 8 for a new, $649-million Army hospital complex at Fort Belvoir in northern Virginia. The Army Corps of Engineers on Sept. 28 awarded the constuction contract for the proj
Publication Date: 17 October , 2007
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Hotel Skylight Collapse Cause Remains a ‘Head-Scratcher’ - ENR | McGraw-Hill Construction
Investigators are hoping to shed light on an atrium roof collapse at an Embassy Suites hotel in Hunt Valley, Md. A 60-ft x 29-ft glass skylight broke loose and fell eight stories on Oct. 10, crashing onto
Publication Date: 17 October , 2007
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Kodak Retools and Reduces Historic Rochester Sit - ENR | McGraw-Hill Construction
The digital age has ushered in many changes at the Eastman Kodak Co. One is a 15-million-sq-ft “footprint reduction program” at its aging industrial complex in Rochester, N.Y. Two adjacent buil
Publication Date: 17 October , 2007
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New Shake Device Simulates Quake Motion Upstairs, Inside - ENR | McGraw-Hill Construction
Publication Date: 17 October , 2007
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Wider Stairs In High-Rises Fought - ENR | McGraw-Hill Construction
The Building Owners and Managers Association International and others are against a model code change proposed for the National Fire Protection Association’s 2009 life safety and building codes
Publication Date: 17 October , 2007
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Building Groups Fight Against Third Stairwell in High-Rises - ENR | McGraw-Hill Construction
The American Institute of Architects and other building groups, including the Building Owners and Managers Association and the U.S. General Services Administration, are on campaigns to keep a requirem
Publication Date: 10 October , 2007
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Capital’s ‘Southeast’ Staging a Comeback - ENR | McGraw-Hill Construction
A just-started $1.7-billion development in Washington, D.C., is a major attempt at revitalizing the city’s beleaguered Southeast section. The 42-acre Southeast Federal Center, planned as the biggest
Publication Date: 10 October , 2007
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Kodak Reimaging Rochester Site - ENR | McGraw-Hill Construction
The digital age has ushered in many changes at the Eastman Kodak Co. One is a 15millionsqft "footprint reduction program" in Rochester, N.Y. Two adjacent buildings were imploded Oct. 6 as pa
Publication Date: 10 October , 2007
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Historic Space Program Pads Fall to Explosives and Torches- ENR | McGraw-Hill Construction
History is crashing to the ground at Cape Canaveral. As the 50th anniversary of the USSR’s Oct. 4, 1957, launch of Sputnik, the first man-made Earth satellite, quietly passes, contractors are explosi
Publication Date: 03 October , 2007
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Taller Version of Tower Prompts Fancy Footwor - ENR | McGraw-Hill Construction
At first glance, steel columns leaning against London’s Broadgate Tower seem like over-large supports for its canopy, reaching to an adjacent lowrise. They are, in fact, 20-tonne legs of five-st
Publication Date: 03 October , 2007
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Owner Is Radiant About Lobby’s Radiant Cooling - ENR | McGraw-Hill Construction
The immediate attention-grabber upon entering Manhattan’s year-old Hearst Tower is the world’s largest “air conditioner” a two-story, stepped waterfall, sliced in two by escalators
Publication Date: 26 September, 2007
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Strategy Lets Pile Work For New Job Begin Early- ENR | McGraw-Hill Construction
A suspended, upper structure of an existing 12-story building, in the way of London’s future 225-meter-tall “Cheesegrater” highrise, is allowing the new tower’s foundation to begin
Publication Date: 26 September, 2007
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Study Shows Big Advantages - ENR | McGraw-Hill Construction
A year-old green roof on the American Society of Landscape Architects’ Washington, D.C., headquarters delivered “significant” economic and environmental benefits, says Nancy Somerville, t
Publication Date: 26 September, 2007
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Top-down Demolition Speeds Ground-up Construction - ENR | McGraw-Hill Construction
Top–down demolition of a tower in London will speed construction of a new office tower on the same site.
Publication Date: 21 September, 2007
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Most Sectors are Going Gangbusters, But Credit Crunch Is Potential Threat - ENR | McGraw-Hill Construction
“Until August, I had a pretty optimistic view of the market,” says Ralph Esposito, director of business development at Bovis Lend Lease, New York City. “Through 2006 and the first half of 2007, we were exceptionally strong in m
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Publication Date: 19 September, 2007
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Structural Plastics Standard Finally Under Development - ENR | McGraw-Hill Construction
If all goes as planned, in about four years, structural engineers will have a technical standard to help them design systems made of composite materials. Development of a consensus pre-standard is under wa
Publication Date: 19 September, 2007
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Trio System in Seattle Makes Wall a Good Neighbor - ENR | McGraw-Hill Construction
Soldier piles, soil nails and tieback anchors saved the day-and nearly $1.5 million over a pipe-bracing shoring alternative-allowing the excavation for a 39-story residential condominium in Seattle to pro
Publication Date: 12 September, 2007
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Amputee Training Center Project Sets the Stage For Scholarships - ENR | McGraw-Hill Construction
Amputees from the military conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan, patients at the Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, D.C., for the past year have been watching the progress of a new structure as it emerged from what used to be the hospit
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Publication Date: 05 September, 2007
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Ground Zero Demolition Job Faces Post-Fire Scrutiny - ENR | McGraw-Hill Construction
The sixth anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks will be a particularly uneasy one for New York City’s construction community. It comes amid continuing investigation into a fatal fire last month during
Publication Date: 05 September, 2007
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Heating, Cooling Authority Makes Headquarters Green - ENR | McGraw-Hill Construction
The American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers Inc. plans to put its money where its mouth is—and a bit more. Not only is ASHRAE spending $5.4 million to upgrade its At
Publication Date: 05 September, 2007
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California Arts Owner Sues Architect, Contractor, Over Delays and Costs - ENR | McGraw-Hill Construction
The Orange County Performing Arts Center in Costa Mesa, Calif., is suing the architect and contractor that built its new $240-million, 2,000-seat Renee and Henry Segerstrom Concert Hall. It blames them for
Publication Date: 29 August , 2007
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New York Projects Face Tough Safety Scrutiny After Fatal Demo-Job Fire - ENR | McGraw-Hill Construction
As work remained largely shut down on the fire-scarred Deutsche Bank abatement and demolition job at the former World Trade Center site in lower Manhattan, contractors and city agencies are scurrying to me
Publication Date: 29 August , 2007
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New York City Toughens Construction Fire Protection Rules in Wake of Fatal Ground Zero Blaze - ENR | McGraw-Hill Construction
New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg ordered Aug. 27 a crackdown on fire safety protections for all city demolition, decontamination and construction projects following an Aug. 18 blaze at the Deutsche Ba
Publication Date: 27 August , 2007
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Tension Escalates at Stricken NYC Demolition Site - ENR | McGraw-Hill Construction
As debris cleanup and scaffold repair got under way Aug. 23 in the wake of a fatal and suspicious fire Aug. 18 at Ground Zero's Deutsche Bank demolition site, two firefighters were injured when a pallet ja
Publication Date: 23 August , 2007
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Concern Expressed That High-Strength Rebar Is Proprietary - ENR | McGraw-Hill Construction
Sources say 100–ksi reinforcing steel for use as seismic confinement in tall concrete buildings is a bright spot on the horizon. But they are concerned about the ability of the sole supplier of the p
Publication Date: 22 August , 2007
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Fatal Ground Zero Blaze Raises New Questions on Demo Job - ENR | McGraw-Hill Construction
The Aug. 18 fire at the Deutsche Bank building shell in lower Manhattan that killed two city firefighters has focused new attention on a demolition project already steeped in problems.
Publication Date: 22 August , 2007
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High-Strength Rebar Called Revolutionary - ENR | McGraw-Hill Construction
After years of struggling to improve constructibility of tall concrete frames in high seismic zones, a solution is in the works–code–approved use of high–strength reinforcing steel for se
Publication Date: 22 August , 2007
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Cleanup and Reconstruction From Peru Quake May Take Years - ENR | McGraw-Hill Construction
After days of searching for survivors of the magnitude 8.0 earthquake that struck Peru on Aug. 15, rescuers turned to recovering bodies and President Alan Garcia called in engineers.
Publication Date: 21 August , 2007
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Death by Adobe as Peru Struggles in Quake's Aftermath - ENR | McGraw-Hill Construction
PISCO, Peru–It took just two minutes to reduce the town of Pisco, Peru to rubble.
Publication Date: 21 August , 2007
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Florida Contractor Melds CEMEX, Rinker in Big Pour - ENR | McGraw-Hill Construction
A monolithic pour by WELBRO Building Corp. placed 8,900 yards of 7,000 psi concrete in 10–12 hours Aug. 11 for a mat foundation on which the new Hilton Orlando Hotel at the Orange County Convention C
Publication Date: 17 August , 2007
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In Siberia, 'Mammoth' Ecological Concerns Resolved- ENR | McGraw-Hill Construction
If completed as planned by 2010, the estimated $18-million World Mammoth and Permafrost Museum in the Russian Republic of Sakha won’t just display ancient artifacts. The proposed 5,625-sq-meter museu
Publication Date: 15 August , 2007
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Two Years After Katrina, FEMA Pulls Plug on Trailers - ENR | McGraw-Hill Construction
Two years after Hurricane Katrina, nearly 69,000 Gulf Coast residents about 43,000 in Louisiana and 26,000 in Mississippi still dependent upon Federal Emergency Management Agency temporary travel trailer s
Publication Date: 09 August , 2007
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Garage collapse halts work on $2.9 billion Las Vegas mega-resort - ENR | McGraw-Hill Construction
An Aug. 6 parking garage collapse halted work on the $2.9–billion, 8.2–million–sq–ft Fontainebleau Resort Hotel in Las Vegas. Four days earlier, a worker was killed in a fall on the
Publication Date: 08 August , 2007
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Buildings Teach by Revealing Their Inner Workings - ENR | McGraw-Hill Construction
It's not a brand-new concept, but some educators believe that exposing columns, beams, pipes, ducts and other parts of a classroom can expose students to hands-on lessons about how buildings work. Designer
Publication Date: 01 August , 2007
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For Audacious Architecture in Louisville, Form Follows Structures - ENR | McGraw-Hill Construction
How many structural engineers does it take to shape a building? Ordinarily, none. That’s the architect’s job. But the $490-million Museum Plaza, smack on an Ohio River flood plain between a lev
Publication Date: 01 August , 2007
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Purdue Model of WTC Impact Conflicts with Federal Study - ENR | McGraw-Hill Construction
Findings of a recent Purdue University study counter conclusions of the federal investigator regarding the trigger for the failure of the 110–story One World Trade Center, after hijacked planes slamm
Publication Date: 01 August , 2007
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Two Former Rem Koolhaas Proteges Show Audacious Approach to Architecture - ENR | McGraw-Hill Construction
After six years running OMA New York, architect Joshua Prince-Ramus felt it was time to cut the umbilical cord with his largely absentee partner-mentor, Rem Koolhaas.
Publication Date: 01 August , 2007
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Skanska Nabs Preconstruction CM On $1.9-Billion U.N. Renovation - ENR | McGraw-Hill Construction
The United Nations announced the selection of Skanska USA Building of Parsippany, N.J., as construction manager for preconstruction on its $1.9 billion renovation of the UN Headquarters in Manhattan.
Publication Date: 27 July , 2007
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Curtain Going Up or Down On First Water-Walled Building- ENR | McGraw-Hill Construction
Visitors to the 2008 World’s Exposition in Zaragoza, Spain, won’t need raincoats or umbrellas to stay dry as they enter the 400-sq-meter entrance pavilion, even though, if all goes as planned,
Publication Date: 25 July , 2007
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Bedeviled Newark Arena Readied To Open on Time- ENR | McGraw-Hill Construction
In its own way, construction of an 18,000-seat arena in Newark, N.J., mirrors the city’s troubled history, with one big exception. The city’s downtown revival is not only bumpy, it is long over
Publication Date: 25 July , 2007
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Purdue Researchers Focus on Plane Impact - ENR | McGraw-Hill Construction
What happens when a passenger jet full of fuel hits a building? The issue is still being studied, including what happens when a large volume of fluid strikes the structure.
Publication Date: 06 July , 2007
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Purdue Researchers Focus on Plane Impact - ENR | McGraw-Hill Construction
What happens when a passenger jet full of fuel hits a building? The issue is still being studied, including what happens when a large volume of fluid strikes the structure.
Publication Date: 06 July , 2007
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Purdue Researchers Focus on Plane Impact - ENR | McGraw-Hill Construction
What happens when a passenger jet full of fuel hits a building? The issue is still being studied, including what happens when a large volume of fluid strikes the structure.
Publication Date: 06 July , 2007
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Purdue Researchers Focus on Plane Impact - ENR | McGraw-Hill Construction
What happens when a passenger jet full of fuel hits a building? The issue is still being studied, including what happens when a large volume of fluid strikes the structure.
Publication Date: 06 July , 2007
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