Three ocean engineering firms in January completed testing of wave energy converters in a unique wind-wave test basin at the University of Maine, gauging how they will respond to severe offshore storms.
Randall L. Barr ranks the $299-million first phase of the overhaul of the San Ysidro Land Port of Entry linking Mexico and California—the world’s busiest border crossing—as a standout among his projects during a nearly 42-year career with contractor Hensel Phelps.
When Porsche-obsessed South Florida developer Gil Dezer told builders he wanted his 60-story condominium to have a car-elevator system so that residents could park their luxury vehicles inside their respective units, he was asking for something that had never been done.
Thanks to problems with elevator-cable girth, weight and sway, supertall-building specialists often get hung up on the ropes when designing towers taller than 500 or 600 meters.
In 2010, when Ronald W. Wackrow was about four months shy of completing the rescue of the troubled 6.5-million-sq-ft Cosmopolitan in Las Vegas, his boss, Related Cos. Chairman Stephen M. Ross, suggested his next assignment: Relocate to the East Coast to steer design and construction of the developer’s 17.5- million-sq-ft Hudson Yards—a 26-acre mini-city primarily sited over the Long Island Railroad yard on the far West Side of Midtown Manhattan.
To create Blox’s stacked box profile “hovering over the road,” many trusses are needed to transfer loads around spaces varying from apartments to a 200-seat auditorium.
A Los Angeles car museum gets a renovation to match its collection with a cherry-red exterior and 310 distinct metal panels flowing around it like a fluid-dynamics wind-tunnel test.
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