Related Links: Joseph R. Loring & Associates Inc. Virginia Tech College of Engineering Joseph R. "Joe" Loring, founder and former CEO and chairman of the New York City electrical-mechanical design firm that handled electrical engineering for the 12-million-sq-ft World Trade Center six years after the company's launch, died on May 30 in Arlington, Va., at age 86.LORINGLoring founded the now 90-person Joseph R. Loring & Associates Inc. in 1956. The firm had key roles on large jobs, such as Manhattan's Citicorp Center in the 1970s and Australia's Parliament building in the 1980s (ENR 1/15/87 p. 20).The firm's work in replacing
Related Links: July 31 Deadline for Cervantes Online Fundraiser/Tributes page Los Angeles Community College District Builds Green ENR California's 2007 Owner of the Year: LACCD Michael Cervantes, an architect whose development of building information modeling (BIM) standards for firms participating in the Los Angeles Community College District's (LACCD) $6-billion sustainable building program was touted by owners and designers nationwide for their ease of use and practicality, died suddenly on May 16 in Long Beach, Calif., of an unknown cause, according to information provided by district colleagues.Cervantes, 38, had been the district's BIM manager since 2009.The district's BIM approach "has been
Northern Ireland's first new hospital in ten years was also the first project in Northern Ireland to be built under a public-private partnership agreement.
Serving up to 80 students, this 6,000-sq-ft early childhood development center and teacher training facility in Johannesburg, South Africa, was the culmination of two years of planning, design and construction led by student volunteers from Cornell University.
Part of the 16-acre World Trade Center complex under construction in Manhattan, the memorial is a public space centered around two reflecting pools that sit in the footprints of the original towers.
When the project team started plotting its construction strategy for The Shard, no one in the U.K. had ever planned a 306-meter-tall building or worked at such lofty heights.
Lacking reliable infrastructure, nearby suppliers and skilled workers, the project team building a $135.8-million U.S. embassy in war-torn Liberia faced an uphill battle.
The Zuellig Building, a $171-million, 33-story office building in the Makati Central Business District in Manila, was the first building in the Philippines to be pre-certified Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Gold by the U.S. Green Building Council.
Photo Courtesy of Stantec Photo Courtesy of Stantec Related Links: Global Best Projects Awards B.C. Stadium Attracts New Vancouver Casino-Hotel Vancouver Rebuilds Key Road in the Shadow of the Olympics Vancouver's BC Place, built in 1983 and home to the 2010 Olympic Games, needed a new retractable roof. Key roof components came from three continents. Mast sections were fabricated in Thailand during blockades and political unrest. A volcanic eruption in Iceland delayed airfreight from Europe and the tsunami in Japan disrupted shipping in the Pacific. The project team, led by PCL Constructors Westcoast Inc., worked with more than 150 consultants, subcontractors
Soaring over a 300-meter-wide, 40-m-deep canyon, the Chavon River Bridge provides a vital link in the 70-km-long Autopista del Coral project to link Punta Cana and La Romana.
RSS
