Video: Restoring Paris’ Oldest Church
Built nearly 15 centuries ago, the church of Saint Germain des Prés features medieval architecture and strikingly beautiful artwork from the 19th century. Thanks to the work of non-profit organization American Friends for the Preservation of Saint Germain des Prés and their Parisian counterparts, funding for this remarkable project continues.
Western Specialty Contractors Cleans, Restores Limestone Façade of Historic Decatur, IL Courthouse
(St. Louis, MO, April 16, 2019) Throughout its history, the Macon County Courthouse in Decatur, IL has inhabited a variety of buildings, from a log cabin built in 1829 where Abraham Lincoln practiced law, to a stone and brick four-story building with a clock tower built in 1892 to its current location -- a five-story limestone building constructed in 1939. Façade expert Western Specialty Contractors - Springfield, IL branch was recently tasked with restoring the historic courthouse’s 80-year-old...
HLW New Jersey’s 2 Journal Square
In need of an innovative perspective that would help revitalize and reactivate Jersey City’s Downtown streetscape, Gaia Real Estate engaged HLW to refresh an existing 300,000 square foot building into a Class A office space with retail and restaurant capabilities on the ground floor. Originally constructed in 1987, HLW was tapped to handle full services for the renovation, which includes architecture, interiors, and signage as well as provide a landscape concept study in their redesign of the bu...
Western Specialty Contractors Provides “3 Keys to Doing Successful Property Inspections”
(St. Louis, MO ) If you are a building owner or manager and want to reduce facility maintenance costs, there are a lot of advantages to performing routine property inspections. To begin with, property inspections provide valuable information that makes the stressful maintenance decision-making process much easier and straightforward. Proper building inspections involve more than just walking around a property looking for potential issues. There are plenty of property inspections that don’t...
SG Blocks and Capital Plus Collaborate with EDS Development to Build 55 Houses in Guayama, Puerto Rico
BROOKLYN, N.Y.- SG Blocks, Inc. (NASDAQ: SGBX)—a leading designer, fabricator and innovator of container-based structures—and Capital Plus Financial, a certified Community Development Financial Institution (CDFI) and certified B Corporation, today announced a joint collaboration with EDS Development to construct 55 houses in Guayama, Puerto Rico by executing the finish out and site work of existing concrete shells. These homes will be sold to families displaced by Hurricane Maria, who will have...
SSAB Launches Strenx® 1100 Plus for Stronger and Lighter Lifting Equipment
[09.04.2019, Stockholm] SSAB today announced the launch of Strenx® 1100 Plus strip steel. Available for immediate order, this new grade of hot-rolled, high-strength steel possesses unique weld properties and delivers outstanding welding and bending performance in booms, frames, cranes and other lifting equipment. Part of the 1100 MPa range of Strenx® performance steels, Strenx® 1100 Plus brings advances in weld seam strength that are ideal for the lifting sector. This new steel grade gives cu...
City of Rochester Public Market Expansion and Renovation, Phases 1 & 2
The City of Rochester, New York, initially enlisted T.Y. Lin International (TYLI) to prepare the Master Plan for the comprehensive renovation and expansion of Rochester’s Public Market Wintershed facility. The Public Market is a year-round bustle of activity on nine acres in the heart of the city. It enjoys national acclaim; it was voted “America’s Favorite Farmer’s Market,” has operated on the same site since 1905, and attracts more than 1.5 million shoppers each year. The Market was compris...
Innovative Chicago Building Earns 2019 OCEA Honors
Learn more about this award-winning building by reading this feature article in Informed Infrastructure. And the winner is … The 150 North Riverside project in Chicago earned the 2019 Outstanding Civil Engineering Achievement Award, announced Thursday night at ASCE’s 20th annual Outstanding Projects and Leaders (OPAL) Gala. The OCEA award, established in 1960, recognizes the project that best illustrates superior civil engineering skills and represents a significant contribution t...
Coil Anodized Aluminum Paneling Makes Korean Heritage Shine
Completed in the 7th century CE, the Hwanryongsa Temple's Wooden Pagoda was built entirely of wood—with no iron nails used. At the time the tallest structure in East Asia, and the tallest wooden building in the world, this architectural feat was the center of state-sponsored Buddhism during the Silla era. Although it was destroyed in the 13th century, it remains an important symbol of the heritage of the city it once looked over, Gyeongju City, North Gyeongsang Province, South Korea.[1] When cit...
Video: Chicago's 167 N. Green Street
167 Green Street from JEFF SHAPACK on Vimeo. Watch a video created by the development team for the 167 N. Green Street building in Chicago, which is featured in Informed Infrastructure's April 2019 issue.
Video: New Roundabout Under Construction at McIver and Old Florence Roads in Darlington County
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