Developer Friends of BelovED Community Charter School 2, Inc. and the project team of Urbahn Architects and construction manager Hollister Construction Services have broken ground for the new, $12.5 million BelovED Community Charter School’s Middle School…
The Stantec Team is Making Progress on the Imagine Clearwater Downtown Revitalization Project
TAMPA, FL: The City of Clearwater approved international consulting design firm Stantec to provide architecture and engineering services on Imagine Clearwater,…
Michael Baker International Selected to Design and Develop the Livingston Executive Airport in Louisiana
Pittsburgh (March 21, 2018) - Michael Baker International, a global leader in engineering, planning and consulting services, today announced that it was…
$2 Billion Riverline Mega-Development Divides into Separate Residential Projects
Less than two years after breaking ground on one of Chicago’s most ambitious residential developments, Riverline’s owners have split the $2 billion plan into two projects along the Chicago River. Riverline’s developers said the eight-tower South Loop…
Haiti: Eight Years After
Miyamoto International created a video of the eight-year anniversary of the earthquake that devastated Haiti, describing improvements that have been made to make the new buildings (and people) more earthquake resistant.
Video: Under a Collapsed Building
I’m in Mexico City a week after the earthquake and this is our first day assisting a local engineering team. A seven-story concrete office building has collapsed. They call it Site 286. More than 40 people died here, probably the largest number of fatalities…
Civil Engineers Gather Resilience Data in Mexico Post Earthquake
Mexico City – The American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) Infrastructure Resilience Division (IRD) has a team of experts in Mexico City, Mexico this week to gather information on infrastructure resilience in earthquakes, following the Sept. 19 quake.…
Motherboard Investigates the Uncertain Future of Nuclear Cleanup in America
Inside Colorado's Rocky Flats National Wildlife Refuge, a former Superfund site that embodies the painful past and uncertain future of nuclear cleanup in America. The Raid Dominick "Dom" Sanchini wasn't sorry until he got caught. He was, at the time, a third-year…
Seoul Transforms Aging Overpass into Skygarden
Seoul has embraced a series of urban-planning projects to make public spaces more attractive to pedestrians. The latest is Seoullo 7017, an old highway overpass that has been converted into a garden in the sky. Much like New York City's Highline, the…
Materials Industry Members Prod Congress to Fix Trust Fund as Part of Tax Measure
The National Stone Sand & Gravel Association used a Sept. 24-28 legislative and policy forum in Washington, D.C., to try to build support for an effort to use tax reform discussions to find a long-term revenue stream to close the projected shortfall in…
