Articles Tagged with ''Arup''

Little Island Park turned a former pier into a 2.4-acre public space over the Hudson River that includes 132 giant concrete pots planted with full sized trees that connect via walkways to each other and to an outdoor performance venue. 

Beauty and beastly strength: Concrete made by Fort Miller Group, which precast the giant concrete flowerpot-like structures for Manhattan’s Little Island park on the Hudson River, boasts this traditionally unlikely combination.

ENR California and Northwest Editor Erica Berardi speaks with Arup Principal Erin McConahey about building decarbonization and what construction can do in the fight against climate change.

Report says adjusted paces, not mass synchronization of walkers, caused negative lateral damping that shut down footbridge in 2000.

The $250-million, 2.4-acre multilevel public outdoor space, which replaces an old Hudson River pier in Manhattan, uses precast concrete components, deep pilings and MEP systems in innovative ways. Says its project executive: "When I started working on the project, we weren't really sure if it could be built."

First new building in 50 years at Fermilab in Batavia, Ill., is built for the future

Innovations in construction technology are reconfigured for the COVID-19 pandemic as firms look to preserve the momentum behind digitization

The joint venture will complete engineering work on the new $930-million U.S. Route 181/Harbor Bridge in Texas, taking over from original engineer-of-record FIGG.

Team building (W)rapper’s ribboned exoskeleton, which is not self-supporting until it is done, relies on falsework for stability during steel erection.

The span was shut down twice in five years, once for its too-bouncy design, but its rebuild now aims for a lasting solution