The Dept. of Veterans Affairs construction program has been hit with more criticism, this time from the Army Corps of Engineers, which says “a transformative change” is needed in how VA manages building major new hospitals.
Jeppesen Terminal at Denver International Airport has a new front door. Rising above the terminal's newly reconfigured south entrance is the 14-story Westin Hotel and Conference Center, still under construction.
An international project team battled unprecedented flooding while treading lightly on Calgary's landscape to build the St. Patrick's Pedestrian Bridge across the Bow River.
The project team confronted the challenge of working within the owner's budget while incorporating cutting-edge 3D design talent to work with materials new to the region.
Fluor Canada Ltd. helped Shell Oil to create its first utility-scale carbon capture and storage (CCS) project, which will capture and store about 1 million metric tons per year—the equivalent of removing 250,00 vehicles off the roads annually.
After a competition that drew interest from more than a dozen firms from around the world, a joint venture of Ugandan and South African firms has won a $79-million contract for a multibuilding complex of government facilities and commercial housing in Kampala, Uganda.
The members of the building team charged with landing what appears to be a winged flying saucer at Florida Polytechnic University's new campus would have had enough on their plate if they were all huddled in the same place, scratching their heads over design architect Santiago Calatrava's futuristic forms. But they weren't. The designers, builders, fabricators and other material and product suppliers were scattered around the globe.The geographic divide made an already difficult job even more so. For the 162,000-sq-ft Innovation,
Composed of two semicircular hotel wings that spiral around an elliptical core, the 45-story Regent Emirates Pearl Hotel, located in Abu Dhabi, rises to a height of 840 ft and dominates the surrounding coastline. While visually arresting, the 1.4-million-sq-ft facility required extensive modeling and analysis to accommodate its complex geometries.
It took three and a half years to bring Yas Mall, a 2.5-million-sq-ft retail development, from design to completion. The shopping mall, which was completed in November 2014, is now one of the largest retail developments in the United Arab Emirates.
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