New engineering study prices cost up to $250M to bolster very old earthen dikes that are the only defense for a low-lying, critical Nova Scotia-New Brunswick transportation corridor.
For the past several years, the main attractions for construction buffs in Orlando have been at the airport itself.
Manhattan office project aims to beat city’s 2030 carbon emission targets by 46% and meet its 2050 carbon-neutral goals.
Salt Lake City adopted the nation’s first two consensus standards that address offsite construction last March, six months in advance of their publication by the International Code Council and the Modular Building Institute. Though ICC and MBI expect other jurisdictions to follow suit, to date there have been no other takers.
What to do about natural gas will be one of the biggest challenges facing a new state-appointed commission on decarbonizing the building sector in the Bay State.
3D printing could very well represent the next frontier for the construction of everything from affordable housing to high-end residential properties.
The expansive wave-shaped skylight erected over what was formerly the mail sorting room of New York’s historic James A. Farley Post Office was perhaps the single most eye-catching feature of this $1.6 billion renovation.
Centene Corporation, a leading multi-national healthcare enterprise, is establishing an East Coast headquarters in Charlotte, North Carolina.
DUO from PERI is challenging the state of the industry with its Fiber Reinforced Polymer formwork system that delivers quality concrete finish without the need for plywood and added equipment.
The century-old Times Square venue is being physically lifted into place at the $2.6-billion, 46-story building being constructed on its site.
“Building Material Selection and Use: An Environmental Guide” (BMEG) includes a database of 50 building materials and their properties.
Amazon’s 2.1-million-sq-ft Metropolitan Park office development near the nation’s capital could become a model for other large-scale sustainable projects. The building team is tracking a 15% reduction in embodied carbon in the project's 200,000 cu yd of concrete and the two 22-story buildings are on course to qualify as net-zero operational carbon.
There was no measurable settlement during the Dec. 1-3 drilling for the second permanent pilot pile installed at the northwest corner of the troubled Millennium Tower in San Francisco, says Ronald O. Hamburger, engineer-of-record for the perimeter pile upgrade designed to stem settlement of the 645-ft-tall residential condominium.
Its monumental architecture gives the parliament complex a historical look, although the design and construction techniques, especially for the classically inspired dome, are unmistakably modern.
First test pile operation did not increase building settlement at troubled foundation fix of San Francisco's Millennium Tower.
By installing a pilot pile for the settling Millennium Tower's troubled foundation repair, Shimmick Construction hopes to prove the efficacy of revised construction methods so that work can continue without triggering accelerated building settlement.
SpeedCore leads the way in the American Institute of Steel Construction's Need for Speed campaign, which also includes SpeedFloor, SpeedConnection and speedier simple bridges.
UMass Chan Medical School is betting big on geothermal heating and cooling to slash the greenhouse gas emissions from the newest addition to its Worcester campus, a $325 million research and education complex.
The team working on the troubled foundation fix of the settling Millennium Tower has switched gears again due to equipment troubles.
New technology is being used to reinforce the 90-year old Afsluitdijk dike, which has been delayed by miscalculations in water level and wave data provided to the contractor.
Winthrop Center recently became the first tower in the city to insert an unusual concrete foundation known as a “sky mat.”
After successfully completing the mind-boggling top-down expansion of the 932,000-sq-ft facility, with its 45-million-lb landmark roof shored safely overhead, the Mortenson-led building team overcame myriad supply chain disruptions caused by COVID-19.
Shimmick Construction successfully completed the 36-in.-dia pilot pile casing installation at San Francisco’s Millennium Tower, proving the efficacy of the initial step of a less-disruptive construction method designed to allow the paused foundation fix to resume.
Previous projects at Intel facility required special construction considerations to deal with the heat.
Residents of the 1,396-ft-tall 432 Park Avenue in Manhattan seek $250 million in compensation for alleged building flaws.
It was a long-standing dream—not only of Ersin Arıoğlu, but of a nation. Could a suspension bridge someday cross the Dardanelles Strait in Turkey and provide another link between Europe and Asia?
A pilot pile program to prove the efficacy of a less-disruptive method for the paused foundation fix at the ailing Millennium Tower in San Francisco could begin the week of Oct. 4.
An analysis has projected the potential for reduced greenhouse gas emissions from cleaner concrete production even with increased use of the material.