Buildings | Design | ENR: Engineering News Record | McGraw …

11/12/14 Construction Week: $1.4B Fulton Center Opens in Lower Manhattan; Industry Jobless Rate Drops By Tim Grogan and ENR Staff The $1.4-billion Fulton Center opens in lower Manhattan and the industry's jobless rate drops to the lowest level in seven years. 11/11/14 Engineers Welcome Designer-Friendly Structural Concrete Standard By Nadine M. Post American Concrete Institute publishes the first major overhaul of its structural concrete building code, ACI 318-14, since 1969 10/22/14 Construction Week: Superslim NYC Tower Tops Out; Dodge Momentum Index Falters By Tim Grogan and ENR Staff Topped out skyscraper, at 1,396 ft, will be tallest residential tower in the Western Hemisphere. 10/08/14 1,000-ft Observation Tower in Miami Expected To Open in 2018 By Tim Grogan and ENR Staff 1,000-ft-tall SkyRise Miami observation tower expected to open in 2018. 09/03/14 Construction Week: ABC's CBI Hits Record High; EPA Criticizes Calif. Delta Tunnel Project By Tim Grogan and ENR Staff Contractors backlogs pickup, EPA takes issue with Delta water tunnel plan and ACC and USGBC's new partnership. 08/26/14 New Bridge Design Tool From Bentley Packs Features for Steel Spans By Tom Sawyer Parametric 3D modeling and integrated structural analyzer, code checker and load rater for straight and curved I-girder and box-girder bridges in one interface 07/10/14 New Atlanta Stadium Roof Will Slide, Not Spin By Nadine M. Post Kinetic architecture consultant advises on the roofs travel mechanism to make sure 360 Architectures design intent is met. 07/10/14 New Atlanta Falcons Stadium Design More Than a Box With a Lid By Nadine M. Post New Atlanta Stadiums complicated kinetic roof is driving the critical path for the entire 1.8-million-sq-ft project 07/09/14 Corvette Museum Will Make Sinkhole a Permanent Fixture By Candy McCampbell The National Corvette Building Museum will make a sinkhole that opened in February a permanent part of the displace, once the perimeter is reinforced by micropiles. 06/04/14 Researchers Generate Tornadoes on Demand By luke Abaffy, With Nadine M. Post The worlds first vortex creating wind chamber aims to advise tornado-resistant building design. 06/04/14 Communities Ramp up Tornado Defenses By Luke Abaffy, with Nadine M. Post Building societies are publishing tornado-resistant design requirements, oversight and guidance for the first time. 06/04/14 New Atlanta Falcons Stadium Roof Mimics Camera Lens By Nadine M. Post The oculus design by 360 Architecture, with engineer Buro Happold, for the convertible roof of a $1.2-billion multipurpose stadium in Atlanta represents a radical departure from kinetic roofs of other sports facilities. 06/04/14 Cracks on Willis Tower Platform Glass Are Startling, But Not Structural Threat By John Gregerson Sightseers scatter after a protective layer atop the Skydeck shatters like a windshields safety glass. 05/08/14 BIM Survey Says More Structural Engineers Use Building Information Modeling By Nadine M. Post Structural engineers also report issues associated with BIM care and feeding. 05/05/14 Builders Solve Calatrava's Florida Polytechnic Puzzle By Scott Judy Overcoming numerous constructability challenges, builders are delivering the $60-million project on schedule, and on budget 04/30/14 Millennium Tower Concrete Pour Is Largest in Boston's History By Tim Grogan and ENR Staff Subcontractor S&F Concrete pours 6,000 cu yd of concrete in 36 straight hours. 04/09/14 Construction Week; Dodge Construction Momentum Index March 2014; Employment Picture Improving By Tim Grogan and ENR Staff The Dodge momentum index slips for second consecutive month, and Detroit's bankruptcy proceedings may benefit a local airport. 02/18/14 London Firm Will Design Urban Plan for Angolan Capital City By Shem Oirere Broadway Malyan wins international competition to design urban growth plan for Luanda to accommodate expected population growth. 02/14/14 Spending Millions To Fix 'Walkie Talkie' Glaring Error By Peter Reina Crews hung a curtain over much of the south elevation as a temporary screen. 02/12/14 Government, Public Buildings: Ralph L. Carr Colorado Judicial Center The CJC consolidates seven judicial and legal agencies that had leased office space in 10 different Denver locations. 11/13/13 First Tower Opens on World Trade Center Site in New York By Esther D'Amico After five years of construction, 4 WTCthe first tower on the original 16-acre World Trade Center sitewas set to open on Nov. 13 10/30/13 Los Angeles Mayor To Tap Quake 'Czar' to Assess Vulnerability of Older Reinforced-Concrete Buildings By Nicholas Zeman Promise comes is response to a report in the Los Angeles Times that labeled over 1,000 buildings as at-risk for collapse in a quake. 10/22/13 Architects, Commerce Dept., Embark on Trade Mission to Brazil By Pam Hunter American architects' expertise in sustainability generates interest among Brazilian architects, AIA officials say. 09/10/13 Another 'Death Ray' Building Heats Up Reflective Solar Rays By Peter Reina Checking for solar glare is becoming a standard design practice, engineers say. 09/04/13 Architects Launch 10-Year Program to Develop Methods to Improve Health of Urbanites By Nadine M. Post Decade of Design: Health and Urbanism is focusing attention on health through research, community planning and community engagement. 07/31/13 U.S. Firm Pushes DEVAP Cooling for India Net-Zero University By Neelam Mathews in New Delhi Chicago-based dbHMS is finalizing a masterplan with the goal of making Indias $260-million Nalanda University campus a net-zero energy user. 07/30/13 Singapore's Soon-To-Be Tallest Building Is Rising By Tom Sawyer Singapore's multi-use Tanjong Pagar Center will boast 1.7 million sq ft of retail, office and residential space 07/25/13 9/11 Blazes Debunk Code Assumptions About Fire Behavior in Open-Plan Offices By Nadine M. Post Performance-based structural fire engineering is heating up in the U.S. and Europe, thanks to the "traveling fires" observed on Sept. 11, 2001. 06/25/13 The World's Top 10 Tallest Airport Control Towers By Scott Lewis ENR tracks down the ten tallest airport control towers. 06/19/13 Resiliency Task Force Recommends Changes to New York City Building Code By Nadine M. Post With only a few exceptions, a task force on building resiliency is recommending building code changes for only new buildings and substantial renovations. 06/11/13 KONE's High-Rise Elevator System Called Breakthrough Technology By Peter Reina, with Nadine M. Post KONE launches an elevator system with carbon-fiber-based belts that weigh significalty less than steel ropes. 06/10/13 UltraRope Lightweight Elevator System Can Double the Maximum Run to 1 Kilometer, Says KONE By Peter Reina KONE's patented elevator technology, named KONE UltraRope, is lightweight, durable, can save on operating costs and can increase the maximum elevator run to 1 kilometer, says KONE. 05/29/13 Deadly Oklahoma Twister Spurs Safe-Room Discussion By John Gregerson As emergency workers address the aftermath of an EF-5 tornado that struck Moore, Okla., on May 20, lawmakers and industry members are grappling with whether regions vulnerable to EF-4 and EF-5 events should require safe rooms in schools and other non-residential facilities. 05/07/13 Ethiopia Aims To Host Africa's Tallest Building By Shem Oirere Africa's tallest building planned for 99 floors 01/30/13 Boston Plans Twin High-Rises for Public Plaza Downtown By Johanna Knapschaefer Two skyscrapers are planned for the Christian Science Plaza in downtown Boston. 01/07/13 The World's Tallest Freestanding Towers By Scott Lewis The essential function of all tall towers is to enable broadcasters to transmit signals, but they also do more. 11/05/12 World Record Sports Facilities By Scott Lewis Professional sports team owners often push the envelope in their quest to build excitement for and attendance at their events. Major residential and resort developers also build record-breaking recreational facilities as drawing cards. 09/25/12 Israel Picks U.S.-Based Architect for $70-Million National Library By Neal Sandler in Jerusalem A global competition to design the privately funded project, set for completion in 2017, had sparked controversy among Israeli architects. 08/24/12 Design for Ethiopia's New Stadium Blends Tradition With Modern Materials, Engineering By Shem Oirere Ancient forms, modern forces sculpt Ethiopian stadium design 08/08/12 One World Trade Center's New Spire Will be Coverless By Nadine M. Post The future 408-ft-tall spire of One World Trade Center in Lower Manhattan has been stripped of its cladding. 08/06/12 Solicitation Coming for Earthquake Engineering Research Centers By Nadine M. Post National Science Foundation to kick off its second competition for earthquake engineering research centers in October. 08/06/12 Towering 'Flames' Light Up Baku By Nadine M. Post Thanks to nine, custom-lit high-rise facades, Baku, Azerbaijan has its very own version of the familiar lyric, "Star bright, star light, will you guide my way tonight." 07/20/12 U.S. Architect To Design Major China Project By Scott Lewis U.S. architecture firm selected to design a major mixed-use project in China. 06/11/12 Seismic Monitoring Program Expected to Validate 'Extreme' Earthquake Engineering By Nadine M. Post Instrumentation on nations tallest skyscraper built using performance-based seismic design is the most ambitious program in the U.S. designed to monitor the behavior of skyscrapers under earthquake and wind loads. 05/21/12 Unusual Tower Creates Landmark for Seoul Development By Peter Reina Unusual double-helix external bracing will stabilize a 620-meter-tall tower at the center of the 20-building Yongsan International Business District, planned for a huge site next to the Han River in Seoul, South Korea. 04/30/12 UC San Diego Shake Test Studies Hospital Non-Structural Components, Systems By Robert Carlsen In the first of a series of seismic shake-table tests to gauge the effects of major earthquakes and fire on a hospital's nonstructural components and systems, the five-story specimen and its contents came through with flying colors. 04/09/12 Construction Week: Collapse Resistance Guidance for Engineers; More Nuke License By Edited by Time Grogan and Debra K. Rubin Construction Week 03/27/12 New Balance Files Plan for HQ Complex in Blighted Boston Area By Johanna Knapschaefer The proposed complex proposed will include at least four office buildings, restaurants, a 175-room hotel and a sports complex with a 200-meter track-and-field facility. 03/26/12 More Good News for Design and Construction of Tall Buildings in Seismic Zones By Nadine M. Post Better-than-expected results of first large-scale tests on reinforced-concrete link beams with embedded structural steel sections are likely to improve design and construction of tall structural concrete buildings in high seismic zones. 03/19/12 Disappearing Act is a 'Whalebone' of a Feat By Nadine M. Post Skylight over 470-ft-long retail corridor of City Creek development is called the most complicated one to date by its designer-builder, a veteran of moving roofs. 03/19/12 Stream Replica at City Creek Complex is so Real, it Even has Fish By Nadine M. Post No one would suspect how much heavy lifting it took to build a 1,225-ft-long replica of a creek through a 23-acre development in Salt Lake City. 02/13/12 Composite Shear Wall Assembly Could Speed Construction of Steel Frames By Nadine M. Post The system is promising for multi-hazard mitigation because it is good for seismic, wind and gravity loads as well as blast resistance. 02/06/12 Is a Revival on the Horizon for Historic Miami Marine Stadium? By David Sokol The Miami City Commission is deliberating whether to give a nonprofit group the green light to rehabilitate Miami Marine Stadium, an abandoned Modernist landmark designed in 1963 by then 27-year-old Cuban-American architect Hilario Candela. 01/30/12 NYC Hudson Yards Developers Name Tutor Perini as Contractor, Form JV with Tishman By Esther DAmico Related Cos. and Oxford Properties choice of Tutor Perini for the Hudson Yards project angers some union contractors. 01/02/12 Chiseled Tower by FXFOWLE To Mark Eastern Gate to Istanbul By Ann Uysal In Istanbul, construction is slated to begin soon on a 606-foot tall tower designed by FXFOWLE, a New York-based architecture firm. 11/28/11 Shear-Stud Code Defenders Slam Recent Contentions that the Model Code is Flawed By Nadine M. Post An upcoming test may help subdue a festering dispute over whether the American Concrete Institutes model code for shear stud reinforcement in two-way concrete slabs needs a fix. 10/31/11 Global Skyscraper Group Ventures into Research for the First Time By Nadine M. Post in Seoul Mission of Council on Tall Buildings & Urban Habitat is to Standardize Skyscraper Design Practices Worldwide 10/10/11 American Society of Civil Engineers 2010 Wind-Load Design Standard is Under Fire By Nadine M. Post Structural engineers say design wind-load provisions of ASCEs 2010 standard are unnecessarily complex and contain errors. 08/25/11 East Coast Engineers Assess Quake Damage, Seismic Codes By Bruce Buckley Structural engineer expects to see building codes adjusted to "require a higher level of force to be included in the overall seismic design. 08/24/11 Tests Show Premature Failure of Shear-Stud Reinforcement By Nadine M. Post Structural designers say there is cause for concern but no reason to panic over research that indicates potential for premature failure of flat-plate concrete frames reinforced at slab-column connections with a popular shear-studs-on-a-rail detail. 08/24/11 News Briefs: DOE OK's ASHRAE Standard; TVA's Unfinished Reactor and Israel's High-Tech Fence Related Midwest, a unit of New York City-based Related Cos., plans to convert an unfinished Chicago condominium into a 65-story, 500-unit luxury apartment building. Also in this week's news briefs: DOE Backs ASHRAE Standard and stimulus-funded project rescued by pipeline developer. 08/15/11 'Dove of Peace' Soars Above Transit Hall By Nadine M. Post Challenges ahead include fabricating the curving, sloping bones of the dove in heavy steel in Italy, transporting them to the site and stabilizing them during erection. 08/15/11 9/11 Memorial Is Centerpiece of World Trade Center Redevelopment By Esther D'Amico The eight-acre urban park of the $700-million National September 11 Memorial & Museum is the emotional focal point of the $19-billion World Trade Center redevelopment in Lower Manhattan. The construction team is pushing to deliver it for the 10th anniversary. 08/03/11 First Palestinian Planned City Taking Shape By Scott Lewis Developer Bashar Masri is building the first Palestinian planned city. 07/15/11 Report Finds Las Vegas Hotel Could Potentially Collapse in a Code-Level Earthquake By Tony Illia A new report finds that Foster + Partners unfinished Harmon Hotel tower on the Las Vegas Strip is beyond repair and dangerous in a code-level earthquake. 06/16/11 Gensler Team Wins 2011 Iron Designer Challenge By Laura Mirviss Eight teams faced off during the 2011 Iron Designer Challenge, hosted by the School of Design and Construction. 06/01/11 Firms Selected To Build Cubs Training Venue in Arizona By Scott Blair Spring is in the air for two firms selected to construct a new spring training and western headquarters facility for the Chicago Cubs Major League Baseball team in Mesa, Ariz. Populous, Kansas City, Mo., beat out nine competing firms to win the design contract, while Hunt Construction Group, Scottsdale, Ariz., bested eight others for the general contractor job. 05/23/11 A Cautionary Digital Tale of Virtual Design and Construction By Nadine M. Post in Pittsburgh Insurance settlement related to a building information model shows that BIM without communication can be costly 05/20/11 As London Nears 2012 Olympics Finish Line, Brazil Starts Race to 2016 Games By Peter Reina With London's preparation for the 2012 Olympic Games at 90% of completion, Brazil is leaving the starting gate for the 2016 Games in Rio de Janeiro. 05/12/11 10 Minutes With State Dept. Embassy Program Officials By Tom Ichniowski The initiative will affect areas besides design, including contracting and maintenance. 05/11/11 Defensive-Design Aid Coming By Nadine M.Post Guidelines for the performance-based design of structures to resist disproportionate collapse are under development by the American Society of Civil Engineers' Structural Engineering Institute. SEI expects to release a draft next year and publish the guidelines in 2013.

Read this article:
Buildings | Design | ENR: Engineering News Record | McGraw ...