If things go according to plan, it won’t be long before Masdar City in Abu Dhabi is the undisputed pacesetter for sustainable design practices.

Masdar announced today that it has chosen Chicago architecture firm Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture (AS+GG) to design its headquarters in Abu Dhabi’s Masdar City, the world’s first zero-carbon, zero-waste city fully powered by renewable energy.

A town known for it’s strawberries,broccoli and it’s original recipe tri-tip barbecue, now comes a new building that may attract more people to the center of Santa Maria than have ever come to the area.

New York City-based Thornton Tomasetti won the American Council of Engineering Companies of New York Platinum Award in the structural systems category for the firm’s work on The Ruth and Raymond Perelman Center for Advanced Medicine in Philadelphia.

Pittsburgh’s developing Consol Energy Center lies in the shadow of Mellon Arena, but the road for the NHL Penguins to secure their planned new home was anything but short.

Thanks to federal largesse and the Legislature’s only override of a Tim Pawlenty veto, Minnesota now boasts the most aggressive highway bridge repair and replacement program in the nation.

Yankee Stadium is the kind of stoic, self-conscious monument to history that befits the most successful franchise in American sports.

“Physically Fit,” highlights Thornton Tomasetti’s work on the Wesley Brown Field House at the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Md. The article was co-authored by Mark Tamaro, Matthew Horne and Calvin Austin.

Contradicting the National Transportation Safety Board’s report that blamed too-thin gusset plates for the Aug. 1, 2007, collapse of the Minneapolis Interstate 35W bridge, an independent analysis has concluded that rusted, frozen roller bearings prevented thermal expansion and caused a truss chord to fail, triggering the gusset-plate failure. The analysis by Thornton Tomasetti, New York City, using forensic bridge information modeling, was presented to victims’ families and will be deployed in an anticipated lawsuit

With the completion of Eleven Times Square, at Eighth Avenue and 42nd Street, one of the final pieces of the Times Square redevelopment project will be in place. The redevelopment has transformed the once-seedy district into an international landmark of theater and glitz.

Experts from engineering consultancy Thornton Tomasetti believe that the initiating event wasn’t the fracture of a key gusset plate in the bridge, but the failure of a horizontal beam.

An engineering firm hired by attorneys for victims of the Interstate 35W bridge collapse says the cause of the disaster was not undersized gusset plates but the failure of a nearby beam, a lawyer for the victims said Wednesday. The firm’s findings directly contradict the conclusion reached by the National Transportation Safety Board.