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Counting Carbon: Reading Between the Lines To Understand What Matters in Sustainability

August 30, 2022 - in Articles, Feature, Featured

Perhaps now more than ever, sustainability remains a predicament. In the nearly 30 years since the U.S. Green Building Council launched the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) certification program, the murky waters of certification vs. sustainability…

Don’t Knock on Wood: Nation’s Second-Tallest Mass-Timber High-Rise Gets Go Ahead in Denver

August 30, 2022 - in Articles, Feature, Featured

In the foreground (adjacent to the medical marijuana dispensary sign “Whole Meds”) is 3495 Wynkoop in Denver’s RiNo District, soon to be home of…

Wetlands Restoration: White Slough Project Engineers a Model for the Future

August 30, 2022 - in Articles, Feature, Featured

(Image: USGS) In addition to being the first project in Humboldt Bay to tackle a failing levee, sea-level rise and the loss of important habitat by improving…

Product Comparison: Precast vs. Cast-in-Place Manhole Base

July 29, 2022 - in Articles, Feature, Featured

Photos show precast manholes stacked for deployment (left), being lowered into place (middle) and ready for fill and grading (right). Construction today is all about one word: impact. Low-impact construction is all about designing and producing a sequence…

Aligning the Lines: Surveying and Scanning Combine to Build New Zealand’s First Underground Railway

July 29, 2022 - in Articles, Feature, Featured

The survey team was instrumental to building the initial 50-m-long tunnel portal for the TBM and then ensuring it stayed on the right path during boring. What often gets lost in the gloss of large construction projects are the small, precise elements that…

Future Proof: Geofoam Pre-Games Construction Challenges as Airports Expand

July 29, 2022 - in Articles, Feature, Featured

For Salt Lake City and Denver airports, general contractors Ralph L. Wadsworth and GH Phipps (left and right, respectively) worked with Atlas Molded Products to develop precise configuration plans for geofoam blocks, which were installed by hand during construction.…

Better Gardiner: Two Deteriorating Bridges Rapidly Replaced

July 29, 2022 - in Articles, Feature, Featured

(Image Credit - MaineImaging.com) Gardiner, Maine, is a small city (population less than 6,000) in Kennebec County. Founded in 1754 on the banks of the Kennebec River near the furthest point upriver that deep-draft vessels can reach, it’s a nationally…

Threading the Needle: Rebuilding 100-Year-Old Transit Infrastructure Above the Streets of Chicago

May 27, 2022 - in Articles, Feature, Featured

The city of Chicago features an undeniable legacy of design innovation. Based on a long history of pushing the limits of possibility through experimentation, Chicago has been something of a smart-city laboratory ever since the Great Chicago Fire left huge…

Redeveloping Underutilized Spaces: Growth of the Life Science and Consumer Goods Market Sectors Offers Real Estate Development and Repositioning Opportunities

May 27, 2022 - in Articles, Feature, Featured

Increased capacity plumbing and ventilation systems were specified by Montroy Andersen DeMarco in the laboratory section of the Secaucus, N.J., research and office facility of The Martin Bauer Group, a global manufacturer and provider of quality tea and botanicals.…

The Purple Pioneers: Irvine Ranch Water District Continues To Innovate

May 27, 2022 - in Articles, Feature, Featured

IRWD’s Michelson Water Recycling Plant repurposes water for multiple uses. The Irvine Ranch Water District (IRWD) has always set itself apart as a proactive and pioneering organization in mitigating environmental challenges. In the early 1980s, for example,…