Designed to earn certification as the first LEED Platinum-rated law school in the country, the Angelos Law Center in Baltimore required extensive coordination efforts to achieve its performance goals.
Photo by Tim Griffith A network of five shoring and underpinning systems preserved a historic facade, rising 90 ft high in places. Related Links: 2013 Best of the Best Projects Winners Bay Area Stadium Rehab Boosts Seismic Safety A poor seismic safety rating and general deterioration prompted the University of California, Berkeley, to undertake $300 million in renovations for the California Memorial Stadium, built in 1913. Because it is sited above an active fault, engineers treated it as a series of discrete blocks, each capable of accommodating up to 2 ft of vertical and 6 ft of horizontal movement during
photo by Maxwell Mackenzie the University of Virginia added 127,000 sq ft of new space to its Charlottesville teaching hospital. photo by Maxwell Mackenzie Related Links: MidAtlantic: Best Health Care Project Using existing structural capacity, the University of Virginia added 127,000 sq ft of new space to its Charlottesville teaching hospital, the University of Virginia Medical Center.To reduce disruption to the existing nursing units, a 2-ft, 8-in. gap was left between the new construction and the old exterior wall. When the addition was fully enclosed, crews built out the gap, removed the old facade and renovated the adjacent space, creating
Photo courtesy W architectural Photography This $65-million mixed-use residential project was built on a triangular infill site at busy La Cienega Boulevard and Burton Way. Related Links: 2013 Best of the Best Projects Winners Dramatic Infill Project Offers High-End L.A. Living The 253,000-sq-ft modern apartment development, featuring a mixed-use layout and a yacht-like shape, sits on a hemmed-in, triangular infill site that serves as a gateway to Beverly Hills, Calif., at one of Los Angeles' busiest intersections. The 90-ft-tall tower gives commanding views of the Hollywood Hills, downtown Los Angeles and the Pacific Ocean.Building the post-tensioned concrete-and-glass structure that mimics
Rendering courtesy of HKS Group Construction of stadium, scheduled to open for the 2016 football season, is just getting under way. Related Links: Minnesota Stadium Amenities Likely Getting Trimmed to Meet $975M Budget Estimate The Minnesota Supreme Court dismissed a motion by former Minneapolis mayoral candidate Doug Mann and several co-petitioners that delayed a crucial $468-million bond sale meant to pay for design and construction work—already performed—on the $1-billion Minnesota Vikings Stadium just getting under way. In a five-page order, the court says it does not have jurisdiction over the case.State budget officials are moving quickly to start the bond
Photo by Getty Images Workers will strip tiles from two curved facades and exposed steel will be painted white until a permanent solution is found. With tiles falling off its shell-like facades, remedial work started recently to safeguard the eight-year-old Queen Sofia Palace of Arts opera house in Valencia, Spain.Crews are stripping loose tiles from the two 4,000-sq-meter curved facades and painting the exposed steel white until a permanent solution is found for the centerpiece of Valencia's City of Arts and Science.The opera house's facades are formed by steel frames covered with metal plate, onto which some 20,000 irregularly shaped,
Rendering Courtesy of Millennium Partners The California Geological Survey's map of the Hollywood fault and its connected splays and traces show proposed Millennium Hollywood (above) and the underway BLVD 6200 (below) projects atops splays of the active fault. Photo by Nicholas Zeman for ENR Related Links: Suit Against Los Angeles Triggers Debate Over Building on Hollywood Fault California Geological Survey Millennium Hollywood BLVD 6200 The California Geological Survey's recently released map of active splays around the 10-mile Hollywood fault in Los Angeles shows two projects—one proposed and one under construction—in violation of state law because they are sited atop splays
In September, an illegally constructed five-story building collapsed in Mumbai, India, killing more than 60 people. It was the latest in a series of collapses this year alone, which included a section of a hospital and another three-story building. Though too late for this year's casualties, the Urban Development Ministry of Mumbai's Maharashtra state government recently rolled out a much-awaited cluster development program for new buildings in Mumbai. They will soon be taking bids from developers for commercial districts, including Crawford Market, Bhendi Bazaar and Mohammed Ali Road.Cluster development addresses zones where, due to certain traditional and conventional presence over a
Related Links: AECOM Takes a Charge Related to Libyan Uprising Libya has revived its $100-billion housing infrastructure development program and re-contracted US firm AECOM Technology Corp. to manage its implementation and offer advice to the ministry of housing and utilities. The revival of North Africa's region's largest home-building program by state-owned Housing and Infrastructure Board (HIB) come at a time when many foreign companies are returning to Libya. Many firms fled during the bloody revolution of 2011 that toppled strongman Muammar Gaddaffi. Companies are trooping back as the new government intensifies renegotiation of stalled contracts. AECOM announced last week it has signed
Photo by James S. Russell Two-year-old Dallas Museum Tower (above) wreaks havoc with daylighting design of the Nasher Sculpture Center (below). Photo Courtesy Nasar Sculpture Center Related Links: Another 'Death Ray' Building Heats Up Reflective Solar Rays Nasher Sculpture Center Dallas Police and Fire Pension System Museum Tower Renzo Piano Building Workshop Arup Johnson Fain Representatives of the decade-old Nasher Sculpture Center in Dallas and the neighboring 42-story Museum Tower condominium are at a standstill over a fix for a tower-triggered sun-glare problem that affects the museum and threatens to damage its contents. Last summer, the Dallas Police and Fire
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