Photo by Luke Abaffy At Breezy Point in Brooklyn, N.Y., cleanup is under way and homeowners can register for NYC Rapid Repairs. Related Links: Hurricane Sandy NYC Rapid Repairs Contractor Registration FEMA Disaster Response Registry System for Award Management Sandy Recovery News and Resources Contractors can now register online for New York City’s rapid repairs program that will help homeowners rebuild after Superstorm Sandy. The Building Trades Employers Association of New York City is helping to reach out to contractors and suppliers by hosting a registration form on its website.The program, called NYC Rapid Repairs, was announced Nov. 9 by
Related Links: Progress Report on Brazil's Stadium Work for the 2014 World Cup Two Years to World Cup Kickoff for Brazilian Stadiums At Brasília’s new National Mané Garrincha Stadium, the project design and construction teams are using building information modeling to craft a signature sports facility in time for two upcoming high-profile soccer competitions. Looking to the past and the future, the arena’s architects seek to conform with the Brazilian capital’s surrounding landmark architecture as well as meet standards for sustainability.At the site, contractors have met the biggest challenge of the soccer arena’s construction: The compression concrete ring is ready.
Photo by AP Wideworld Many houses in this Queens, N.Y., neighborhood on the Atlantic Ocean shoreline are built up four feet off the ground. That height didn't protect them from the 8-ft storm surge or the winds. Photo Courtesy of USACE In New Jersey shore communities, structural damage assessments are under way, but few details about the condition of the houses were available at ENR press time. Related Links: Post-Sandy Mobilization Shifts into High Gear Prices for Windstorm Coverage May Not Be Changed New York Ponders Plan For Next Storm With NYC Tower Crane Secure, Plan Shifts To Recovery NJ
Related Links: Sidebar: At 49ers Stadium, Buckling-Restrained Braces Are a Big Plus Cities Stuggle with Sports Villages, But Keep Building Sports Construction Vets Cry Foul on Owners' Reps New Santa Clara Stadium http://pm-alliance.com For five uneasy years, the team responsible for building the San Francisco 49ers' $1-billion new home had hung together through three work hiatuses, a recession and a regrouping caused by a site relocation 45 miles to the south—from San Francisco's Candlestick Point to Silicon Valley's Santa Clara. Then, early last fall, things changed. Suddenly, the snail's pace became a race.Based on an early opportunity to secure financing,
Photo Courtesy of Turner/Devcon, Joint Venture. A BRB lateral system weighs significantly less than an equivalent concrete shear-wall system. Related Links: 49ers Use Collaborative Delivery 'Special Teams' To Speed Stadium Construction Cities Stuggle with Sports Villages, But Keep Building Sports Construction Vets Cry Foul on Owners' Reps MCEER Report on Buckling Restrained Braces During both the conceptual and schematic design phases for the San Francisco 49ers' stadium, the structural engineer developed a matrix of 66 structural-system scenarios. Then, the design and construction team evaluated each for schedule and cost. The team ultimately selected a steel frame, with composite metal decking
image courtesy of Gensler Proposed Farmers Field would join a sports-and-entertainment district in downtown Los Angeles. Image courtesy HKS HKS's concept for a football stadium in the Twin Cities. Related Links: 49ers Use Collaborative Delivery 'Special Teams' To Speed Stadium Construction Sidebar: At 49ers Stadium, Buckling-Restrained Braces Are a Big Plus Even in today's corporatized-sports era of millionaire players, billionaire owners and billion-dollar stadiums, sports is deeply embedded in a city's identity. Planners and city boosters inevitably want to harness that emotional connection as an engine of urban development. They have found it is not all that easy to do.In
Photo by Robert Hernandez, courtesy Miami-Dade Fire Rescue The five-story structure at Miami Dade College, estimated to have been 90% complete, suffered a sudden progressive collapse near midday of Oct. 10. Photo by Robert Hernandez, courtesy Miami-Dade Fire Rescue Crews with Miami-Dade Fire Rescue discovered the last buried worker five days after the building collapse. Related Links: News Blog: Fourth Body Found at Miami Garage Collapse Site Bad Design Cited in Collapse of Jacksonville, Fla., Parking Garage Building Sequence Probed at Cincinnati Casino Collapse A section of a $22.5-million parking garage project under construction near Miami collapsed without warning on
Related Links: After Engineer Declares Roof Sound, A Deadly Collapse 2010 Disciplinary Action Against M.R. Wright & Associates When it comes to inspecting old structures that may be damaged by water and salts, an engineer can rarely rely on visual inspection to provide enough information to justify a declaration that a building is structurally sound.But that is exactly what the engineer appears to have done twice in four years before a collapse at a two-story shopping mall and rooftop parking deck in Ontario. The second inspection was made two months prior to a June 23 failure that sent slabs crashing
Photo Courtesy of Andrew Craft At 2,000 ft, an old communications tower in Elizabethtown, N.C., becomes tallest structure to be felled by explosives. The operation was done at no cost, and proceeds of the scrap metal will go to the Green Beret Foundation. Related Links: Watch the implosion of the structural-steel tower in Elizabethtown, North Carolina. A demolition contractor imploded a 2,000-ft-tall structural-steel tower on Sept. 20 in Elizabethtown, N.C. The structure, the tallest in the U.S. east of the Mississippi River, had been used as a Raycom Media communications tower but became obsolete in 2008 when television station WECT
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