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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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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Publication Date: 01 January , 2004
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Chinese Engineers Dig in Deep To Build Runyang’s Dynamic Duo
The islet has about 15,000 residents, while the nearest river crossing lies upstream 80 km away at the the Nanjing Second Yangtze River Bridge.
Publication Date: 24 November , 2003
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Megastructure Supports Taipei’s 508-Meter ‘Megatower’
Residents of Taiwan’s capital may be worried about the 101-story building rising in their typhoon- and earthquake-prone city, especially in this era of heightened fears of terrorism. However, Taipei&#
Publication Date: 24 November , 2003
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Rack-and-Pinion Hoists Still Deliver
Although four high cranes crowned construction of Taiwan’s Taipai 101 tower, an unglamorous set of rack-
Publication Date: 24 November , 2003
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Russia Resurrects Large Floodgate To Protect St. Petersburg
Floods strike the city twice a year on average. A 25.4-kilometer embankment across Neva Bay, featuring some of the world’s largest horizontal sector gates, was designed in the 1970s, started in the 1980s but halted in 1987 for environmental
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Publication Date: 24 November , 2003
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Waiting to Exhale After A Year of Turmoil
The world held its breath in 2002. Few had recovered from the year-earlier shock of the terrorist destruction o
Publication Date: 28 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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Damper-Studded Diamonds
Standing on seismic Mexico City's dry central lake bed or "bowl of jello," where many buildings col
Publication Date: 30 June , 2003
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High-Speed Link Testing Dutch Skills With Tough Going In Low Country
Along an arc roughly south from Amsterdam to Belgium, six teams are now forming the base for a 300-km-per-hour train service, due to start operations in 2006. Their tools include a tunnel boring machine with the world’s biggest cutting head
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Publication Date: 30 June , 2003
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High-Speed Link Testing Dutch Skills With Tough Going In Low Country
Along an arc roughly south from Amsterdam to Belgium, six teams are now forming the base for a 300-km-per-hour train service, due to start operations in 2006. Their tools include a tunnel boring machine with the world’s biggest cutting head
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Publication Date: 30 June , 2003
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Some Countries Are Bad to the Bone On Bribery
With middlemen diverting cash into the Swiss bank accounts of a corrupt southern African official, the Lesotho Highlands Water project epitomizes graft in international construction. Continuing court activ
Publication Date: 30 June , 2003
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Some Countries Are Bad to the Bone On Bribery
With middlemen diverting cash into the Swiss bank accounts of a corrupt southern African official, the Lesotho Highlands Water project epitomizes graft in international construction. Continuing court activ
Publication Date: 30 June , 2003
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Southeast Europe Emerging As Public Works Hot Spot
In European construction markets during 2002, "total construction output reached zero growth overall and decreased by 0.2%" in real terms, said Anna Gáspár, a top Hungarian construction official. She attributed this to "increasing
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Publication Date: 16 June , 2003
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Global 'Starchitects' Sow Passion into Land Of Pragmatism
Santiago Calatrava, Renzo Piano, Rem Koolhaas, Tadao Ando, Norman Foster, Fumihiko Maki and Jose Rafael Moneo–to name only seven. When it comes to designer labels, made in the U.S.A. is wearing thin a
Publication Date: 05 May , 2003
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Beijing Picks Olympic Stadium Design
A design with a birds' nest-like enclosure has been selected for Beijing's $500-million stadium, which will be the centerpiece for the 2008 Olympic Games. The operable roof stadium was designed by a team t
Publication Date: 14 April , 2003
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Croatia Tries to Unlock Economy With Multibillion-Dollar Motorway
For centuries, Croatia's geographic location as a flash point between East and West has made the small Balkan country a battlefield. Culturally tied to the West and often dominate
Publication Date: 26 August , 2002
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Croatia Tries to Unlock Economy With Multibillion-Dollar Motorway
For centuries, Croatia's geographic location as a flash point between East and West has made the small Balkan country a battlefield. Culturally tied to the West and often dominate
Publication Date: 26 August , 2002
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Soft Markets Lead To Search For Value Over Volume
For ENR's Top 225 International Contractors, 2001 was a down year. International revenue for the Top 225 fell 8.1% to $106.5 billion from $115.9 billion in 2000 and 11.5% from 1999's high of $118.7 billion. Part of this drop-off can be explained
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Publication Date: 26 August , 2002
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Two Jobs Not for the Faint of Heart
Amid political chaos, international environmental protest and outright violence, the world's two highest roller-compacted concrete dams are taking shape in South America at a rate of up to 585 cu yd per ho
Publication Date: 19 August , 2002
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A Time of Suspense for High-Speed Rail Developments Worldwide
A throng of waiting riders in Bremen, Germany, this spring watched the three-car train rise 10 mm off the 400-volt DC rail track, levitated by a bay of magnets that are repelled by reaction rails fastened
Publication Date: 29 July , 2002
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Aviano Air Base Falls into Step Under Central Line of Command
Five years after the U.S. Air Force moved its 31st Fighter Wing to Italy's Aviano Air Base, the Pentagon's largest military construction project was slogging almost to a halt. Bureaucratic contracting comp
Publication Date: 22 July , 2002
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Aviano Air Base Falls into Step Under Central Line of Command
Five years after the U.S. Air Force moved its 31st Fighter Wing to Italy's Aviano Air Base, the Pentagon's largest military construction project was slogging almost to a halt. Bureaucratic contracting comp
Publication Date: 22 July , 2002
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Sluggish Markets Show Signs of Recovery
The international design market has been sluggish for several years, with Asia and Latin America experiencing spasms of economic turmoil. The market doldrums have had an impact on ENR's Top 200 Internation
Publication Date: 22 July , 2002
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Alpine Tunneling Is Swift So Far As Crews Probe For Unstable Rock
Switzerland's intent to force road vehicles onto the railroads will relegate the 1913 Lötschberg Alpine rail tunnel, built with pneumatic drills and hand shovels, to a secondary role. Crews building t
Publication Date: 15 July , 2002
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Houston Stadium Is Open and Shut Case
A roof–Texas sized and priced–was a must before the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo would move from the Astrodome to a planned venue "next door." The rodeo would not budge on a ceiling
Publication Date: 01 July , 2002
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Historic Expansion of U.S. Capitol Showcases Its Historic Use of CM
Publication Date: 17 June , 2002
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Cleveland Gets A Case of Gehry's Totally Unreserved
The forecast called for snow, the first storm of the season even though it was mid-January. Construction crews rebuilding the Pentagon had been working 20-hour days, six days a week and were making remarka
Publication Date: 27 May , 2002
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Big Turnabout In Green Markets
Waves of optimism are coursing through the veins of green building enthusiasts. Thanks to a growing track record of success, a proliferation of government incentives and grant programs and honed marketing
Publication Date: 29 April , 2002
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Pentagon Crews Making Good On High-Profile, Fast-Track Schedule
The forecast called for snow, the first storm of the season even though it was mid-January. Construction crews rebuilding the Pentagon had been working 20-hour days, six days a week and were making remarka
Publication Date: 04 February , 2002
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Firms Scramble to Better Positions in Quiet Market
The international contracting market this year resembles nothing so much as a duck swimming on a pond: Calm with little going on above the water, but furious activity just below the surface, as internation
Publication Date: 20 August , 2001
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Panama's Canal Holds Visions of New Growth
Standing on a barge cruising through the Panama Canal's Gaillard Cut, Maximiliano DePuy beams proudly. The geotechnical engineer for the Panama Canal Authority points to the 539-ft-high Gold Hill promontor
Publication Date: 30 July , 2001
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Japan Wrestles with Construction
Japan’s once-proud construction industry is painfully realizing its glory days are gone. Construction was once a pillar of the Japanese economy, accounting for nearly a fifth
Publication Date: 04 June , 2001
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