U.S. Army Corp. of Engineers' researchers, leading a team that recently completed the 3D printing of 9.5-ft-tall reinforced concrete walls for a 32-ft x 16-ft deployable barracks, are setting their sights on a future project--3D printing of concrete roof beams--even before they have put the precast concrete lid on the printed walls.
Saint-Gobain, one of the world's largest building materials makers, decided to prove the performance of its products in a real work setting by creating a high-performance environment in its North American headquarters in Malvern, Pa., and using the 289,000-sq-ft retrofit expansion of a 1960s building as a guinea pig for an occupant comfort study. The three-year research program went further than most occupant comfort studies by including a survey of staff in the former headquarters in Valley Forge, Pa., with its more traditional, rather than open-plan, office layout.
Delegates at the American Institute of Architects annual meeting late last month in New York City resoundingly passed an anti-abuse and anti-harassment resolution to amend the AIA Code of Ethics and Professional Conduct.
Structural engineer D. Stanton “Stan” Korista, who had worked in the Chicago office of architect-engineer Skidmore, Owings & Merrill since 1965, died on May 8.
