Susceptibility to extreme seismic forces need not be a barrier to the use of accelerated bridge construction methods, according to researchers at the University of Nevada, Reno’s Earthquake Engineering Laboratory.
About six months after the Envision infrastructure project sustainability rating tool launched in 2012, Superstorm Sandy generated $68.7 billion in damage.
Studies by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention show that 5% to 10% of patients in acute care facilities contract infections there—a figure that’s been on the rise for the last 30 years.
A three-person peer-review panel has given a green light to the cutting-edge structure for Seattle’s Rainier Square Tower, an 850-ft-tall “proof of concept” for a new core system, which will have a tied dual-plate shear wall, field-filled with rebar-less concrete.
New York City-based AKRF has kept a low profile since its start in a Manhattan loft in 1981 as an early specialist in the then-new field of mandated project environmental review, as its website notes.
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