Tasked to build a complex medical center that combines three different hospitals and an office building in a tight downtown space amid fast-changing regulation, technology and workforce trends, the University of California, San Francisco and its construction team “identified early the need to deliver this project differently,” says its project submission.
Despite being hemmed in on all sides by a tight downtown Atlanta site, contractors leading construction of the 94,000-sq-ft, three-story College Football Hall of Fame and Chick-Fil-A Fan Experience executed their plan to finish 24 days ahead of schedule—with zero OSHA recordable incidents.
Bell Helicopter’s newest world-class aerospace assembly facility was built on a 14.5-acre site at Lafayette Regional Airport using a design-assist strategy that enabled the project team to bring the facility quickly on line to meet growing back orders for the Bell’s newest commercial helicopter, the 505 Jet Ranger X.
Albuquerque Convention Center authorities engaged the project team to transform the 1960s-era building into a structure that would capture “Albuquerque’s unique spirit” while not impinging on operations.
Builders’ 15-month conversion of an occupied Atlanta office tower into a high-energy commercial space for technology-based startup companies proved the potential of innovative design and construction.
One World Trade Center’s 408-ft-tall steel spire, which sits atop the skyscraper’s 1,368-ft superstructure, makes the 1,776-ft-tall One WTC the tallest building in the Western Hemisphere and the fourth tallest in the world.
Rural Lake Mills, Wis., replaced an overcrowded, outdated elementary school, built in 1964, with a K-4 elementary school that was not just up to date but also designed under the LEED v4 Beta Program, the next version of the LEED rating system.
A portion of the World Trade Center Transportation Hub’s long-awaited and overdue Oculus atrium opened on March 3, along with a pedestrian tunnel to a new hub entrance at Liberty and Church streets.
Promulgators of the Living Building Challenge, acknowledged as the most demanding certification program for the production of ultragreen buildings, are on a campaign to scale up the size of the projects that register for the rigorous net-zero annual energy- and water-use performance categories.
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