Builders of Miami International Airport's new $1.1-billion North Terminal transformed a 50-year-old building into a mile-long, 3.2-million-sq-ft transportation hub.
Related Links: Global Best Projects Awards Geno Armstrong , Principal, KPMGARMSTRONGGeno Armstrong serves as KPMG’s global leader for its major projects advisory service as well as the international head of its engineering & construction industry practice. He has over 20 years of domestic and international major project development and construction experience, including construction development strategies, troubled project recovery and project controls. Armstrong worked in Fortune 100 corporate real estate and construction groups and was project manager for an ENR Top International engineering and construction company before joining KPMG. A registered professional engineer, Armstrong is active with major projects in the energy
Two international firms, Odebrecht and OHL, teamed to build the 2.4-mile-long Metrorail extension to Miami International Airport's new intermodal center.
Accurate pipe-pile placement was confirmed by a Jones-designed device that has a conical nose to self-center in piles, an inclinometer to plumb and two GPS units for location.
Photo Courtesy Pritzker Prize The Toyo Ito Museum of Architecture, completed in 2001 in Imbari-shi, Ehime, Japan. Related Links: The Pritzker Architecture Prize Tokyo-based architect Toyo Ito joins previous recipients Kenzo Tange, Fumihiko Maki, Tadao Ando and the team of Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa as the latest winner of the Pritzker Architecture Prize, founded by the late Jay A. Pritzker and his wife, Cindy, sponsored by the Hyatt Foundation and awarded since 1979.ITOThe seven-person jury calls Ito's architecture innovative, fluid and superbly executed. Over 40 years, Ito, 71, has designed libraries, theaters, parks, houses, shops, office buildings and museums,
The largest chunk of construction in the $14.6-billion ring of storm-surge defenses built by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers around post-Katrina New Orleans is a $1-billion concrete wall across a marshy bay on the eastern flank of the city.
Mitchell Collins, chief surveyor with Alberici Constructors, St. Louis, helped take laser scanning and precision fabrication and concrete placement to new heights in 2012 on the Seabrook Floodgate Complex for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in New Orleans. C
The daughter of a bridge engineer in Iowa, Avery Bang spent a lot of her childhood accompanying her father on bridge inspections—"even on holidays," she recalls. Now, Bang builds bridges in developing countries around the world.Bang's globe-trotting tendencies started in college, where she earned a civil engineering degree from the University of Iowa.
In a corner of Appalachia used to visits from bureaucrats and other would-be do-gooders, it's not hard to understand why, a decade ago, the people of Tennessee's Coal Creek region were suspicious of geotechnical engineer Barry Thacker's offer to clean up their mine waste-tainted waterways.
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