Related Links: Pankow Foundation Releases Free Owner's Guide for Maximizing Integrated Building Teams An Unprecedented 11 Partners Propel Integrated Project Delivery at Sutter's New California Hospital Integrated-Project-Delivery Boosters Ignore Many Flashing Red Lights Sutter Health Unlocks the Door to a New Process Since 2006, lawyer Howard W. Ashcraft has structured nearly 80 multiparty integrated-project-delivery agreements for more than 30 owner-developer clients. He is such a believer in the ultra-collaborative, risk-and-reward-sharing model that, at times, he even has skin in the IPD game.Of Ashcraft's 77 IPD projects, 75% are exceeding contractual targets for schedule, cost, quality or profitability, says the Hanson
Related Links: Maximizing Success in Integrated Projects, An Owner's Guide Integrated Building Teams Are Good For Projects, Study Says In support of speedier delivery and reduced cost and schedule growth, researchers have released a guide to help building owners maximize team integration under any contracting scenario."Even when an owner is constrained by procurement rules, there are opportunities for greater team integration and group cohesion," says Robert M. Leicht, a professor in the architectural engineering department at Pennsylvania State University and the lead author of "Maximizing Success in Integrated Projects: An Owner's Guide."The recommendations for owners are based on the findings
By Nadine M. Post/ENR Wood proponents have proposed code changes that would allow residential buildings with heavy-timber structures to be nine stories and 100 ft tall. The American Wood Council, on a roll after it succeeded in getting new provisions into the 2015 International Building Code that allow heavy-timber structure within exterior walls, is proposing even bigger changes for the 2018 IBC, currently under development. The proposal would allow two- or three-hour-rated heavy timber to “safely serve in diverse structures” as tall as 100 ft, said Paul D. Coats, Southeast regional manager for the American Wood Council (AWC), at the
Photo courtesy of EarthCam Stadium-bowl concrete work, two-thirds complete, is expected to be done by the fall. Related Links: New Atlanta Falcons Stadium Design More Than a Box With a Lid Concrete work on the New Atlanta Stadium for football’s Atlanta Falcons is two-thirds complete and expected to be done this fall, says Wayne E. Wadsworth, principal in charge for the stadium’s general contractor, the Holder-Hunt-Russell-Moody Joint Venture, which holds a $1.078-billion guaranteed maximum price contract.For the structural concrete bowl, the work is all about the megacolumns that will support the structural steel for the signature kinetic roof, says Wadsworth.
By Nadine M. Post/ENR Crews and a crane coax an 11th-floor module into place for the delayed 32-story B2 BKLYN residential building. Work got underway again on April 24, after an eight-month hiatus. Related Links: Skanska, Forest City Ratner Sue Each Other Over World's Future Tallest Modular Building After an eight-month construction hiatus triggered by delivery and fit-up difficulties at the modular plant, crews once again are installing modules on the future 322-ft-tall B2 BKLYN in New York City, which, if completed next year as now planned, will rank as the world’s tallest volumetric modular building. The record holder for
Related Links: Danger: Railroad CrossingBuilding Manhattan's Hudson Yards Construction Begins on Hudson Yards' $700M Eastern Platform NYC Hudson Yards Developers Name Tutor Perini as Contractor, Form JV with Tishman Structural engineer Thomas Z. Scarangello is no stranger to the Long Island Railroad's West Side Yard in Manhattan, which is going under cover thanks to the 28-acre Hudson Yards development.The current chairman and CEO of Thornton Tomasetti (TT) first studied the yard in the late 1990s, when there was talk of a baseball park there. And he was involved again when New York City made its bid for the 2012 Olympic
Construction begins on Hudson Yards' $700-million Eastern Platform NYC Hudson Yards Developers Name Tutor Perini as Contractor, Form JV with Tishman Rolling trains underfoot. Around-the-clock operations. Caissons needled in between tracks. Hundreds of work-arounds to avoid tunnels and buried utilities. Track-outage hopscotch. Two-hour work windows. Sudden schedule changes. Constant scrutiny. Deadline pressure.The 11.2-million-sq-ft first phase of Manhattan's 17.4-million-sq-ft Hudson Yards—a 28-acre minicity on
During construction of Florida Polytechnic University's $60-million Innovation Science and Technology Building—which more closely resembles a flying saucer than a citadel of learning—the flappable wings ruled.
Enlarge Related Links: NIBS Off-Site Construction Council New Horizons Foundation OSCC Survey for Off-Site Implementation Guide Researchers trying to get a handle on trends and benefits of off-site construction say studies are limited by a lack of consensus about what really qualifies as prefabrication. That aside, 93% of 312 responders to a recent online survey indicate they have used, "to some degree," off-site fabricated components, with precast concrete the most frequently used. Of the responders, 83% say they will use off-site construction to the same degree or more in the next year."We need to draw the line to make the
