Related Links: Corvette Museum Will Make Sinkhole a Permanent Fixture Repairs Under Way at Corvette Museum After Sinkhole Swallows Cars That sinkhole at the National Corvette Museum that ate eight Corvettes in February, revving up whopping increases in visitors and sales at the venue, will be filled in this winter.The Bowling Green, Ky., museum’s board of directors had kept that option open in an earlier vote to leave the sinkhole open. But the extra cost and the possibility of harm from humidity from the gaping hole in the ground – caves run off two sides of it – changed their
Photo by Eduardo Miranda/Stanford A wood-framed house sitting on a system of new, low-cost base isolators survived two series of shake-table tests with no structural damage. Photo by Eduardo Miranda/Stanford Dish-shaped isolator made from galvanized plates and high-density plastic allows the house to recenter itself after an earthquake. Related Links: New Concrete Bridge Bent System May Minimize Seismic Damage Shaking Things Up to Improve Seismic Design Recent shake-table tests on a wood-framed house—equipped with newly developed low-cost seismic base isolators—confirmed predictions that the two-story house would come through structurally unscathed. The goal of the research, considered an important step toward
Photo By Nadine M. Post/ENR The 1,776-ft-tall One World Trade Center is expected to open this fall. Photo by Nadine M. Post/ENR Completion of the nearly $4-billion World Trade Center Transportation Hub is expected in about a year. Related Links: At New York's New World Trade Center, Uncommon Cooperation Lower Manhattan's beleaguered World Trade Center redevelopment is inching slowly forward, with some major milestones expected in the next year or so.The 1,776-ft-tall One World Trade Center—the tallest building in the Americas—is set to open this fall. It will be nearly 60% leased, says the Port Authority of New York &
Related Links: Bored of the Rings: Alice Goes Underground in New Zealand SubTropolis Website General contractor Mark Meyer's clients have been keeping him in the dark quite a bit recently— working underground, that is—and he couldn't be happier.Over the past 12 months, his firm, Meyer Brothers Building Co., has been working on two unusual projects as part of an ongoing expansion of SubTropolis, a roughly 6-million-sq-ft facility in Kansas City, Mo., that bills itself as the world's largest underground business complex.While working 150 ft below the surface in low-lighting conditions has its challenges, Meyer says there are upsides to building
Photo by AP Wideworld Early damage estimates top $1 billion from a magnitude-6.0 quake that struck Napa, Calif., on Aug. 24. Nearly 100 residential and commercial buildings have been condemned in Napa County due to structural damage, mostly to unreinforced masonry buildings. However, engineers are investigating why some recently reinforced buildings also sustained damage.Emergency rooms treated more than 200 patients, mostly for minor injuries, but there were no fatalities. Around 90 broken water mains are being repaired, and some roadways buckled, but all of the area's bridges remain safe, according to Caltrans. Dozens of minor aftershocks continue to rock Napa's
Tesla Motors moved closer to selecting a site outside of Reno, Nev., for its $4-billion to $5-billion factory to produce lithium batteries for electric vehicles. The company confirmed that a 600-acre site has undergone some preconstruction work but fell short of committing to the site because of unidentified candidates in Arizona, California, New Mexico and Texas.In a conference call with shareholders on July 31, Tesla CEO Elon Musk said the same type of work that has been completed at the recently paused site, located 17 miles east of Sparks, Nev., will be duplicated at other sites before a final decision
The original name of the beleaguered 22-acre sports village in Brooklyn—a $4.9-billion development that overcame myriad lawsuits, years of controversy, an architect switch and the recession—has not survived. The controversial mixed-used project formerly known as Atlantic Yards is now called "Pacific Park Brooklyn."The renaming comes two months after the formalization of the sale of 70 percent of the development—exclusive of the nearly two-year-old Barclays Center arena and the B2 Bklyn apartment building under construction—to Greenland USA, a subsidiary of Shanghai-based Greenland Group Co., by Forest City Enterprises Inc., the parent company of the original developer Forest City Ratner Cos.Greenland Forest
Photo Courtesy of Magnusson Klemencic Associates/Michael Dickter Related Links: New Atlanta Falcons Stadium Design More Than a Box With a Lid The multipurpose Levi's Stadium, which will be used primarily for football's San Francisco 49ers and soccer's San Jose Earthquakes, will be completed within the $1.27-billion budget and delivered on time by the Turner-Devcon Joint Venture, says Jack Hill, the 49ers project executive.The first game, between the Earthquakes and the Seattle Sounders, will be on Aug. 2. As construction winds down, planning is revving up for an estimated $6.5-billion development on 215 acres across the street. The city approved this
Courtesy of SHoP Architects Plan for $4.9-billion Atlantic Yards Project amended to fast-track construction of affordable housing units. By Nadine M. Post for ENR A 32-story modular high-rise, called B2 BKLYN, rises alongside the Barclays Center arena, which was the first building completed in the 22-acre sports village. Related Links: Developer Gambles on Modular High-Rise for Atlantic Yards Sports Village Green Light for Proposed Record-Tall Modular Building At Atlantic Yards Fancy Footwork to Steady the Course of Brooklyn's Atlantic Yards Sports Village New York Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo (D) recently announced a plan to accelerate construction of the residential components—including
Related Links: Demolition Contractors Ask for a Larger Role in Disaster Planning Engineers Surprised by Damage to Modern Buildings in Christchurch Instability From Soil Liquefaction Remains A Danger, Says Engineer Economists predict it will take some $35 billion and 50 to 100 years for New Zealand to recover from the February 2011 Canterbury earthquake, which killed 185 people and devastated Christchurch, the nation's second-largest city. To date, the New Zealand government has committed more than $13 billion to rebuilding the greater Christchurch area. Many projects—both public and private—are under development, including a convention center, a $45.9-million Bus Interchange, the redevelopment
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