Redmond Elementary School’s Stormwater Detention System
Lake Washington School District’s new Clara Barton Elementary School in Redmond, Wash., is one of the new elementary schools in the Redmond Learning Community that was included in the district’s Long-Term Facilities Planning Task Force recommendations. The new school is built to house 690 elementary students under state-funded class-size reductions. As part of the project, Oldcastle Precast Auburn was contracted to supply several hundred precast concrete panel sections for two massive detenti...
ACEC New York Presents Two Platinum Awards to DeSimone Consulting Engineers
ACEC New York recently presented DeSimone Consulting Engineers, a leading engineering firm with offices worldwide, with two Platinum Awards for the structural design of 111 Murray and 512 West 22nd Street in Manhattan. As part of the 2019 Engineering Excellence Awards program, the projects will be recognized at the annual awards gala at New York City’s Hilton Midtown on Saturday April 13th, 2019. 111 Murray, a new, high-rise condominium development, towers nearly 800 feet above TriBeCa, Manha...
2018 International Green Construction Code Released
The International Code Council, ASHRAE, the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) and the Illuminating Engineering Society have released the 2018 International Green Construction Code (IgCC). The IgCC is part of the Code Council’s family of comprehensive, coordinated and modern model codes -- including the International Building Code, International Mechanical Code, International Plumbing Code and International Fire Code -- used around the world. The IgCC provides a whole systems approach to the...
Nation’s Best Design-build Projects Recognized for Collaboration
WALNUT CREEK, Calif. - The Design-Build Institute of America (DBIA) has announced the winners of its 2018 National Design-Build Project/Team Awards competition. The program promotes exceptional diversity in project size, sector, and geography while celebrating the innovative and collaborative teams who produce projects that inspire. This year’s winners, consisting of 29 projects across sectors including aviation, civic buildings, transportation, and water/wastewater, were recognized at DBIA’s...
California Beats Back Transportation Funding Repeal; Mixed Success for Other Ballot Initiatives
Nine major transportation funding-related ballot initiatives were placed before voters in eight states on Nov. 6 – two of them in Colorado alone – and once the votes were tallied, five of those ballot initiatives failed while four of them succeeded. [Above photo by Caltrans.] Yet one of those “failures” regarded an effort to repeal California’s Senate Bill 1 or SB 1 that boosted taxes on diesel and gasoline, along with other fees, back in 2017. Not only did California voters nix that repea...
Madison Square Park Tower: Slender, Inverted, Remarkable
The last decade witnessed a global boom in tall building construction, and, like every year since 2014, 2017 set another record for tall building construction with the completion of 144 buildings taller than 655 feet. New York City, practically synonymous with skyscrapers, saw its fair share of tall buildings erected as developers continue reaching for the sky. However, unlike most of the tall buildings going up worldwide, New York leads the way in a new trend: slender skyscrapers. Slender Sk...
Voters Across the Nation Demonstrate Support for Transportation Investment
(WASHINGTON)— Voters in 31 states Nov. 6 once again showed their support for transportation infrastructure investments, approving 272, or 79 percent, of 346 state and local ballot measures. In total, the approved initiatives are expected to generate over $30 billion in one-time and recurring revenue, according to the analysis conducted by the American Road & Transportation Builders Association’s Transportation Investment Advocacy Center™ (ARTBA-TIAC). The 2018 preliminary results reaffirmed...
Solar FlexRack Installed in the 2018 Silver Project of the Year Winner: Annapolis Solar Park
YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio - Solar FlexRack™, a division of Northern States Metals and an innovative leader in photovoltaic mounting and solar tracker solutions, announced today the Annapolis Solar Project, installed with its ballasted mounting technology, has won 2018 Silver Project of the Year. Awarded by Solar Builder Magazine, the project winner is the largest landfill solar project in North America. It is located in Maryland and is owned by Building Energy. The 18 MW (DC) solar project represents...
Airport, Toll Road, and Port Activity All Expected to Increase, Fitch Ratings Says
In a report issued Oct. 18, credit agency Fitch Ratings said that airports, toll roads, and ports are all facing “potential increases in borrowing costs” should the Federal Reserve continue to increase interest rates – and it has already increased interest rates three times in 2018 alone and eight times since 2015. [Above photo by formulaone.] That, coupled with increasing capital improvement spending needs, has the potential to slow growth in those three transportation sectors, noted Fitc...
Highway Deaths Account for 95 Percent of all Transportation Fatalities in 2017
Highway crashes claimed the lives of 37,133 people in 2017, accounting for 95 percent of the 38,958 who died in transportation related accidents that year, according to data provided by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration and released Thursday by the National Transportation Safety Board. The data indicate 712 fewer people died in transportation accidents in 2017, compared to the 39,670 who died in 2016. Aviation, marine and highway deaths decreased while rail and pipeline fata...
Video: New Roundabout Under Construction at McIver and Old Florence Roads in Darlington County
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