To reduce project cost and schedule length while addressing the skilled labor shortage, many owners and contractors are moving work from the construction site to a fabrication facility.
This letter is a rebuttal to online comments posted by Michael McNally and Robert T. Williams in response to the cover story, “From the Top Down” (ENR 10/31-11/7/22, p. 18), and its associated sidebar about TGE Top Down LLC, where I am chairman.
Structural Engineers 2050 Commitment Program is supporting the ambitious SE 2050 Challenge, which states that “all structural engineers shall understand, reduce and ultimately eliminate embodied carbon in their projects by 2050.”
Updating the building’s security system was a key focus of a major renovation, with the Cairo museum’s rare collection also including works by Paul Gaugin, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Claude Monet and more than 100 other artists.
For this project in Mucombeze, Shook’s eight workers—teaming up with SAM Ministries—constructed teacher dormitories at the 600-student primary school, where students walk as much as 10 miles to get to classes.