The Sports and Exhibition Authority of Pittsburgh and Allegheny County had a few tall tasks for the project team on its new 720,000-sq-ft arena for the National Hockey League's Pittsburgh Penguins: a tight schedule, a firm budget and construction on a steeply sloped site.
Sculpting a pair of residential towers on a patch of undeveloped land in Manhattan may sound straightforward at first blush, but the new J1 and J2 buildings on the giant West Side 75-acre Riverside South complex illustrate how starting from scratch presents its own challenges.
The 125,000-sq-ft Robinson Nature Center is a three-story structure built into a hillside. It is currently on track to become one of three LEED-Platinum buildings in the state of Maryland.
The $31.5-million, four-story Towson University West Village Commons mixed-use student-services facility in Towson, Md., was built into a steep hillside between two resident halls.
The $212-million Croton Tunnel project in New York was extensive. It entailed construction of a raw water tunnel from the New Croton Aqueduct to the Croton Water Treatment Plant, which is currently under construction, and two treated water tunnels between the plant and existing distribution lines adjacent to the Jerome Park Reservoir in the Bronx.
For the first time in its 26-year history, the United States Institute of Peace, a nonpartisan organization created by Congress, has a permanent home that will enable it to increase programming aimed at advancing international peace.
Battling to keep business afloat in a tough economic climate is hard enough, but the 98 contenders in this year's Best Projects competition had to go further than just completing the job.
The $20-million American Trucking Associations Capitol Hill Legislative office involved integrating three adjacent structures into one space. It also included the building of two levels of underground parking with 55 spaces that encompass the footprint of all three buildings.
Mandated under the Base Realignment and Closure Act of 2005, Walter Reed Army Medical Center moved from Washington, D.C., to the campus of the National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda, Md.
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