New Lindapter Hollo-Bolt Design Data
Lindapter has published new figures for designing Hollo-Bolt connections to LRFD and ASD methods, in compliance with the International Building Code. As the only expansion bolt with full ICC-ES seismic approval, this data assures building officials and the wider building industry that the Hollo-Bolt meets I-Code requirements. Download Lindapter's new ICC-ES approval data here
Oldcastle Precast Supplies Retaining Wall System for PENNDOT’s Largest Project Ever
PHILADELPHIA, Pa. (September 2016) – Oldcastle Precast, a specialist in manufacturing precast concrete components used in heavy highway and bridge construction, has supplied over 330,000-square-feet of The Neel Company’s Pennsylvania Department of Transportation approved T-WALL® Retaining Wall System for Philadelphia’s Interstate 95 Corridor Reconstruction Project. Ultimately, on separate contracts for Interstate-95 sections CP1, CP2, GR2, and GR3, Easton-based Oldcastle Precast manufactured...
Laing O'Rourke Wins Key Opera House Renewal Contract
Laing O’Rourke Australia has won a competitive tender for Early Contractor Involvement (ECI) in the Sydney Opera House’s Stage 1 Building Renewal program, which comprises $250 million of projects to be carried out over the next five years. The program is the largest package of works since the Opera House opened in 1973. It includes upgrades to the Opera House‘s two largest internal performance spaces, the Concert Hall and Joan Sutherland Theatre, as well as upgrades to the entry...
Black & Veatch Wins Hong Kong International Airport Expansion Project
Hong Kong SAR (6 September 2016) – Black & Veatch has won a water management role in the expansion of Hong Kong International Airport (HKIA) that incorporates business sustainability best practices. The Black & Veatch team will design the hydraulic and water treatment systems for the new Three-runway System (3RS) to be completed by 2024. The HKIA expansion will meet future air traffic growth and maintain its competitiveness as an international aviation hub while improving the facilities’ oper...
Marblehead, MA Pipeline Replacement Named APWA Project of the Year for 2016
BOSTON, MA – The American Public Works Association (APWA) has named the South Essex Sewerage District's Marblehead Pipeline Replacement Project as one of its Public Works Projects of the Year for 2016. The award was presented on August 29 during the APWA’s Public Works Expo in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The APWA Public Works Project of the Year Award was established to promote excellence in the management and administration of public works projects by recognizing the alliance between the managin...
Gilbane Building Company Earns Two Merit Awards from ENR Southeast Best Projects
August 2016 – ENR Southeast announced the winners of their 16th Annual Best Projects for 2016. They named two of Gilbane Building Company’s projects, LakePoint Indoor Facility and Rice Creek School, as merit award winners in their respective categories Sports/Entertainment and K-12 Education. LakePoint Indoor Facility The LakePoint Indoor Facility in Emerson, Georgia, boasts the largest continuous display of competitive hardwood flooring in the world and is the largest indoor sp...
Projects on the Road to Approval
The design process for the Hyatt Regency at the Oregon Convention Center is well underway. The Design-Build team of Mortenson Construction and ESG Architects had their first Design Review Hearing with the City of Portland on August 18th. Every new construction and remodeling project within the Portland Design Overlay Zone must adhere to this process, the purpose of which is to maintain and enhance Portland’s historical and architectural character. Results from the first Design Review Hearing...
Ramboll Wins San Francisco Planning Frameworks
To date, San Francisco has been spared when it comes to cloudbursts or sea level rise. But the City and County of San Francisco Planning Department know that the risk is there. That is a major reason the Californian metropolis have appointed Ramboll on three major frameworks for planning services. The frameworks are broad and cover among other things Strategic Planning, Resiliency Planning and Sustainability Planning. The San Francisco Planning Department explains about Sustainability Plannin...
Black & Veatch Awarded Consultancy Role in Cirebon, Indonesia Project
Jakarta, 23 August 2016 – Drawing on more than 40 years of experience in power generation development in Indonesia, Black & Veatch will oversee the scheduling, design, quality control of equipment supplied, and construction activity for the 1,000 megawatt (MW) Cirebon 2 Project just east of the City of Cirebon in West Java, Indonesia. Black & Veatch has been appointed as the Owner’s Engineer by P.T. Cirebon Energi Prasarana to help deliver an operationally efficient and much needed coal power...
Tenaska’s Advanced Natural Gas Power Station to Improve Resource Efficiency
Overland Park, Kansas - Black & Veatch has been selected to provide engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) services for a new 925 megawatt natural gas combined cycle power plant. Using advanced, high efficiency turbine technology and a recycled water cooling process, the Tenaska Westmoreland Generating Station will produce enough power to meet the energy needs of 925,000 homes. The station is located near Pittsburgh and will supply electricity to customers in Pennsylvania and 12 other...
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