Bond ... 54 Bond Street: NYC Building Restoration Wins Prestigious Award
54 Bond Street in Manhattan is a circa-1874, corner cast-iron building in the French Second Empire style. Its recent facade preservation and restoration project in Manhattan received a 2018 Lucy G. Moses Preservation Award, the New York Landmarks Conservancy’s highest honor for preservation excellence. “The $4.5 million project was phased, with the first phase being the facade restoration, and the second, final phase being the reconstruction of the sidewalk, which is currently being completed...
Sponsored Content: Taylor Devices Can Save Lives and Reduce Costs
Sponsored By: Across the globe, current building codes only require that new buildings be designed for collapse prevention. Unfortunately, they do not require easy-to-achieve “performance-based designs” that greatly improve performance during an earthquake. It’s assumed that a brand-new building meeting all modern building codes will perform well during earthquakes and allow residents to inhabit them immediately following a major seismic event. However, a brand-new...
Executive Corner: Why Is My Company’s Valuation Lower When Selling to Key Employees vs. Selling to Another Company?
I’ve spoken with countless exasperated A/E firm owners through the years who’ve asked why their firm’s internal valuation doesn’t reflect a number similar to what they believe they can reasonably expect from an external sale. Most, but not all, are first-generation owners who aren’t sure why they’re expected to sell shares internally at a discount to what they might receive on a pro-rata basis if their company were to sell to an outside acquirer. Understanding the various value levels can hel...
Emergency Operations: Loyola University Medical Center Upgrades Stormwater Mitigation System After Dangerous Flooding Event
By Bill Wood, P.E. The year 2013 typically isn’t remembered for its storms. There were no Hurricane Harveys or Marias, no Superstorm Sandys, and no Katrinas. However, while not given names, smaller storms still can severely impact communities and cause major damage and disruption at local and regional levels. This was the type of storm that hit the Loyola University Medical Center (LUMC) Campus in Maywood, Ill., just west of downtown Chicago, in April 2013. On the heels of weeklong...
Final Thoughts: Certainly Uncertain: Difficult for Engineers
Uncertainty. This is a word that engineers have a problem with, as we like to be able to predict what will happen. Nobody wants to design or construct a project for which we can’t predict the performance. Sadly, uncertainty now is part of the future of our national infrastructure. More than a year ago, when the current president took office, I prepared to write about the new infrastructure program he had promised. I collected some data and statistics to help show the need for increased emphas...
Engineered Solutions: Accelerated Vegetation Establishment on Caltrans Fire Reclamation Site
Sponsored By: By Adam Dibble, CPESC-IT, CESSWI, and Matt Welch, CPESC, CESSWI In December 2017, the Freeway Fire ignited the brush along the Interstate 210/Interstate 15 interchange near Rancho Cucamonga, Calif. Due to high winds, the blaze quickly spread and burned more than 20 acres of land before firefighters were able to get it under control. With acres of precious vegetation burned on the side of a well-traveled interstate, the California Depart...
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Change Leader: Use Technology to Find Better Ways
These profiles are based on interviews, and the opinions and statements are those of the subject and are not necessarily shared or endorsed by this publication. Michael DeLacey, president and CEO of Microdesk, has more than 25 years of experience in integrating technology into the planning, design, construction, and operations and maintenance process. Changing Mindsets The world is changing rapidly. DeLacey points to a metric indicating the number of buildings on Earth are...
Change Leader Full Interview: Use Technology to Find Better Ways
These profiles are based on interviews, and the opinions and statements are those of the subject and are not necessarily shared or endorsed by this publication. Michael DeLacey, president and CEO of Microdesk, has more than 25 years of experience in integrating technology into the planning, design, construction, and operations and maintenance process. V1 Media: Please provide a brief background of your education and work experience before Microdesk. DeLacey: My background is in comp...
Future Forward: Infrastructure Operators Increasingly Look to Industrial Wireless Networks
This page profiles innovative and impactful applied research in civil and structural engineering to spur continuing thought and dialog to create a better industry. These profiles are based on interviews, and the opinions and statements are those of the subject and are not necessarily shared or endorsed by this publication. Stewart Kantor, CEO of Ondas Networks (formerly Full Spectrum), participated in the development of a new wireless data standard for critical infrastructure operators in the...
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