Related Links: Charles Pankow Foundation Owner's Guide to Maximizing Success in Integrated Projects Team integration and cohesion are better predictors of a building project's success than contract methodologies. Project delivery structures that reinforce early involvement of the major players—before the design is set—typically result in better outcomes than those that don't. The lines delineating project delivery strategies have blurred.These are among the findings of a 170-page report, called Owner's Guide to Maximizing Success in Integrated Projects, released this month by the Charles Pankow Foundation. The $375,000 study, which looked at 204 buildings, was funded by $300,000 from Pankow and $75,000
Image Courtesy Denis Hayes and Gail Boyer Hayes Related Links: COWED Denis Hayes Developed a Model for Office Buildings to Rely on Nature for Their Needs Super-Sustainable Bullitt Center is ENR Editors' Choice for Best Project in 2013 "To cow" means, among other things, to frighten with threats, to intimate and to overawe. The noun "cow" means, among other things, mature female cattle, especially domesticated cattle. "To have a cow" means to be amazed, angered or upset.A thoughtful presentation of the negative impacts of domesticated cows, "Cowed: The Hidden Impact of 93 Million Cows on America's Health, Economy, Politics, Culture
Related Links: IBI Gruzen Samton website GruzenJordan Gruzen devoted himself to urban architecture in and around New York City. He died on Jan. 27 from cancer. He was 80. In the early 1960s, Gruzen and his college classmate Peter Samton joined Kelly & Gruzen, founded by Gruzen's father in 1936. Gruzen and Samton became partners in 1967. In 2009, Gruzen Samton merged with the nearly 2,800-person IBI Group and is now known as IBI Group-Gruzen Samton. The 50-person New York City office has a portfolio that includes schools, colleges, dormitories, courthouses, transportation terminals, residential complexes, facilities for the elderly
McDonald's Corp. is encouraged by the results of a Rocky Mountain Institute-led study of the technical and financial feasibility of building stand-alone restaurants that produce as much energy annually as they use.
Photo Courtesy of RWDI Wind-tunnel tests revealed high wind loads and motion at the supertower's top, so the design team added horizontal wind slots. Related Links: Team Building 1,397-ft 432 Park Avenue Tower Went to Extremes to Make It White RWDI WSP USA Building Structures The structural engineer for Manhattan's 1,397-ft-tall 432 Park Avenue is pleased with the modifications to Rafael Viñoly Architects' design. The spaghetti-box shape performed poorly in wind-tunnel tests, especially regarding high wind loads and motion at the tower's top.The design solution was to remove windows and create five horizontal slots in the building at the double-height
Andreas Tselebidis, who has developed concrete mixes for more than 15 supertowers, says his assignment to design the mix for the world's first extra-high-strength architectural concrete supertower—the 1,397-ft 432 Park Avenue in Manhattan—is his most challenging ever.
Mix-Design Veteran Calls 432 Park Avenue's White Concrete Recipe His Most Challenging Ever Moving Up in the World Few know more about deceptive appearances than the team producing the world's first high-strength, white-concrete, exposed-perimeter structure for the tallest residential tower in the Western Hemisphere. On the face of it, Manhattan's 1,397-ft 432
HOK looms large in the memory of Bill Johnson—the architect for the daring New Atlanta Stadium—as having set inadvertently, yet fortuitously, his career path.
A kid's biology book, devoured when Christine Sheppard was 8 years old, tweaked her interest in science. A professor who helped reestablish the peregrine falcon on the East Coast opened the graduate student's eyes to environmental bird threats.
