Articles Tagged with ''building''

Engineers and architects have the responsibility to hold paramount the safety, health, and welfare of the public. Until building codes adapt, building professionals must seriously consider integrating passive design into their projects to ensure occupant safety during extreme weather events.

Crews demolishing a school across the street from Fenway Park plan to have the building down by the end of March, just before the Red Sox April 9 home opener. 

Our Midwest Top Contractors are on track to show growth over 2016, despite a somewhat slower rate of growth in 2017,

Los Angeles-based CIM Group and Chicago's Golub & Co. unveiled plans this week for the redevelopment of Chicago's neo-gothic Tribune Tower and the land surrounding it. A 1,422-ft-tall tower would rise adjacent to the 1923 landmark, according to the plan, and the soon-to-be-former home of the Chicago Tribune would be converted to 165 residential units and new retail shops.

More than 209,000 residential buildings would likely require retrofitting if a proposed New York City law, spurred by the Trump Tower fire, is passed.

The approval of a project called Embark Richmond Highway in Fairfax County, Va. will result in a major makeover of the U.S. Route 1 corridor near Mt. Vernon.

West Virginia had the largest job growth in the nation from January 2017 to January 2018, according to Associated General Contractor workforce data. 

After three nor’easters pummeled the East Coast this year, architects, engineers and environmental groups are calling for regulators to force building owners to protect their properties from extreme wind, flooding and heat related to climate change and sea level rise. 

ENR New York is once again ranking the largest projects that began in the past year.

A high-rise tower with mixed-income apartments will soon rise in Cambridge’s Central Square above existing brick and other low-rise buildings that harken back to earlier days.