A public inquiry into the cause of the 2017 fire that killed 72 found the design, materials and manner of construction for a refurbishment contributed to the disaster.
Computer chip manufacturers are responding to pandemic-driven supply chain hurdles—as well as to state government incentives and federal funding allocated by the CHIPS and Science Act signed by President Biden in August—with projects to build plants and boost their U.S.-based production.
Hines has broken ground on phase one of its 200-acre Riverwalk San Diego development. The project, which has a reported value of $3 billion, aims to transform Riverwalk golf course into a transit-oriented “live-work-play” neighborhood.
The Smithsonian museum on the National Mall in Washington, originally designed by SOM in the 1970s, is undergoing a three-stage upgrade and expansion as visitor numbers grow.
In 2018, EPC contractor TGE Top Down delivered a $112-million, 10-story, 621,000-sq-ft office building in Bangalore, India, using a patented top-down building system.
Top-down construction—assembling the floor of a building on the ground and lifting it into place—has long presented a possible alternative to the labor-intensive process of building steel frames, floors, walls and all components at height.