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.
For Denis Hayes, the journey to a leadership role in the environmental movement has been informed by childhood trauma, youthful disillusionment and an epiphany.
Related Links: $741M Overhaul of San Ysidro Land Port of Entry Burdened by Myriad Site Constraints San Ysidro Land Port of Entry The maelstrom of the $741-million remake of the world's busiest border crossing—the San Ysidro Land Port of Entry between Southern California and Mexico—was the 570-ft-long by 55-ft-wide cable-stayed canopy over the 24 lanes of tandem inspection booths that process 50,000 vehicles daily. The general contractor's agreement with SYLPOE not to worsen the already-lengthy vehicle wait times during construction of the canopy—and the tandem replacement booths—turned an intensely difficult project into a hellish one."The canopy was a pretty complicated
By Nadine M. Post for ENR One World Trade Center received its first tenants in 2014. The observation deck is scheduled to open in the spring. Photo by Michael Dickter/Magnusson Klemencic Associates Levi's Stadium, for the San Francisco 49ers, opened on time last summer. Related Links: Wilshire Grand Concrete Mat Placement Sets U.S. Record Pankow Foundation Charts Ambitious Research Goals For High-Strength Rebar The Promise and Pitfalls of Modular Buildings For the buildings sector, 2014 has been a year of starts, stops and milestones—some very high profile. Though at least a year late, tenants finally began moving into the 1,776-ft-tall
Related Links: U.S. Land Port of Entry Funding Rebounds San Ysidro Land Port's Team Tames the Logistical Monster Miller Hull Partnership Hensel Phelps With the most unsettling work done, all is calm at the world's busiest border crossing—the 40-acre San Ysidro Land Port of Entry, which is nearly four years into a three-phase $741-million transformation. Once worrisome, the incessant hum of the 50,000 vehicles that line up each day to cross into California from Mexico is now music to the ears of the members of the SYLPOE team, who, for three-plus years, had to keep more than 24 lanes of
For about 50 years, many developers and design teams—salivating over the best-located piece of real estate left in the heart of Chicago—have tried unsuccessfully to come up with an economically viable project for the sliver of a site, hemmed in by active railroad tracks, viaducts, a building and the Chicago River.
Kohn Pederson Fox President of Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates, he worked on some of the worlds tallest buildings Related Links: KPF Engineering News-Record Paul Katz, president of Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates PC since 2010 and a 30-year veteran of the architecture firm, died on Nov. 20 of septic shock after a brief battle with colon cancer. The South African native was 57.Katz was known for his work on mixed-use supertall buildings, including the 101-story Shanghai World Financial Center—at 492 meters, the world's fifth-tallest building—and the 118-story International Commerce Centre in Hong Kong—at 484 m, the world's sixth-tallest high-rise.Recently, Katz was
Related Links: American Concrete Institute Engineers Welcome Designer-Friendly Structural Concrete Standard Pankow Foundation Charts Ambitious Research Goals For High-Strength Rebar More than 25,000 Twitter users participated in a Nov. 18 Twitter chat, hosted by the American Concrete Institute, to ask questions about the group's revised "Formwork for Concrete" manual, which was published last month.Topics "discussed" included polyvinyl chloride formwork; safety design of formwork; new content in the manual; the latest load and materials standards; and the benefits students can gain from the manual, says ACI. "The objectives of the manual, through many editions, are to support quality, safety and economy,"
