Related Links: ASCE Awards 2013 Class of Distinguished Members National Academy of Construction homepage Website of The Moles Website of The Beavers Man Chung-Tang, chairman of infrastructure design firm T.Y. Lin, has been awarded the 2013 Gold Medal by the Institution of Structural Engineers for outstanding contribution to the structural design of major long span bridges around the world. He has over 44 years of design and construction engineering experience, working on more than 100 bridges globally, and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1995 for contributions invcable-stayed bridge design.The Design-Build Institute of America has named Michael
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.
Be Like Brit is a 19,000-sq-ft, two-story orphanage on a four-acre site 30 miles east of Port-Au-Prince. It is named in honor of Britney Gengel, a 20-year-old American college student who died in the 2010 earthquake.
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