Fluor Team Selected for Los Angeles International Airport Automated People Mover
IRVING, Texas – Fluor Corporation (NYSE: FLR) announced today that its joint venture team was selected as the preferred proponent to design-build, finance, operate and maintain the Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) Automated People Mover project for the Los Angeles World Airports (LAWA). Fluor plans to book its share of the contract value later this year. “We are excited to join with LAWA on its first public-private partnership, providing a best-value technical and financial solut...
Western Specialty Contractors Working with Renowned Team to Restore Iconic Saban Building in Los Angeles, CA
(St. Louis, MO) – Western Specialty Contractors branches in Los Angeles, CA and Seattle, WA are teaming up on a project to restore the historic Saban Building (formerly May Company department store) in Los Angeles, CA—the future home of the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures. Western crews are working alongside renowned historic preservation consultant John Fidler, New York Pritzker-Prize winning architect Renzo Piano with Renzo Piano Building Workshop and Gensler, general contractor Matt Constru...
Michael Baker International Awarded $4 Million Contract to Help Reduce Congestion and Commuter Safety in Dallas
Pittsburgh - Michael Baker International, a global leader in engineering, planning and consulting services, today announced that it was awarded a $4 million contract by the Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) to provide safer roadways and bridges along the southern gateway corridor for commuting into downtown Dallas. As part of the larger transportation design/build construction project, Michael Baker will perform Owner Verification Testing and Inspection (OVTI) oversight and conduct aud...
CTA Architects Begins Renovation of the Iconic STREB Lab for Action Mechanics (SLAM) Dance Performance and Rehearsal Center in Brooklyn, NY
Brooklyn, NY – CTA Architects, P.C. (CTA) is serving as architect for the first phase of the multi-phased renovation of 51 North First Street. The 5,000-square foot, one-story building in the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn houses the non-profit STREB Lab for Action Mechanics (SLAM), a dance and theater performance venue and an open-access education and rehearsal space. SLAM is the brainchild of Elizabeth Streb, a choreographer, performer, and teacher of contemporary dance, as well as a...
KWK Architects Selected Design Architect for Residence Hall Phase XVI at University of North Carolina - Charlotte
(Webster Groves, MO) Student housing expert KWK Architects has been selected the design architect for a new residence hall at the University of North Carolina - Charlotte that will replace existing Sanford and Moore Halls. Charlotte, NC-based Jenkins Peer Architects is the Architect-of-Record on the project. Sanford Hall (opened in 1969) and Moore Hall (opened in 1970), which each house 500 students and have 12 floors, will be demolished as part of the project. The new, proposed residence hal...
Voyants Solutions Optimizes Urban Regeneration Planning for Informal Settlements in Agatare, Rwanda
Leveraging Bentley Technology Shortens Delivery Schedule and Reduces Implementation Costs Amid Difficult Terrain and Failing Infrastructure Urbanization for Informal Settlements The Rwanda Ministry of Infrastructure retained Voyants Solutions (Voyants), as part of a consulting consortium to help facilitate the government’s master plan to modernize Rwanda’s infrastructure. Aligned with its vision to sustain more diversified and resilient sources of growth and increase urbanization from...
Arcadis, SCAPE and Public Sediment Team Selected to Design Alameda Creek in Next Phase of Resilient by Design’s Bay Area Challenge
San Francisco – Public Sediment, a multidisciplinary resilience team that includes Arcadis, the leading global design and consultancy firm for natural and built assets, announced today the team’s Alameda Creek resilience concept for San Francisco Bay has been selected for further study by Resilient by Design. After months of early research and exploration, learning from communities throughout the Bay Area, and collaborating with local and global design experts, the team will join with Alamed...
Vessel Structure Tops Out
Vessel is an interactive structure constructed at the center of the Public Square and Gardens at Related Co.’s Hudson Yards Development on Manhattan’s West Side. Photo by Bess Adler. Since starting construction in April 2017, the Vessel interactive structure at New York’s Hudson Yards Development has grown from its 50-foot diameter base to a final height, and width, of 150 feet. With the placement of the final steel segment atop of the 16-level structure on Dec. 6, a mile...
Precast Wall Panel System Used for Airport FAA ALS Generator Building
BUFFALO, NY (January 2018) – Using precast concrete custom-made wall panels and hollow core plank, Oldcastle Precast Newnan, Ga., working in conjunction with CNS Communications, LLC, constructed the newly upgraded emergency generator runway light control building at Buffalo’s International airport. Owner of Buffalo International Airport, the Federal Aviation Administration contracted CNS Communications, LLC to provide an upgraded FAA Approach Lighting Systems (ALS) generator building for one...
The Ataturk Cultural Center: The New Cultural Icon For Istanbul
ISTANBUL Just last month, the new Atatürk Cultural Center (AKM) was introduced in Turkey. The new contemporary culture center will appeal to a general public greater than other facilities have previously been possible to accommodate. Although it will mainly serve as a new opera house, the center will also have venues ranging from cinema and theater to exhibition halls, cafes and restaurants. The Atatürk Cultural Center will be built to accommodate performances of international statur...
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Redevelopment of Horseshoe Bay Terminal
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