Thornton Tomasetti’s Dennis Poon is a featured speaker at the upcoming Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat’s (CTBUH) Young Professionals Committee presentation, “Shanghai Tower: Creating the World’s Second Tallest Building.”

Thornton Tomasetti, the international engineering firm, announces that two projects for which it provided structural engineering services – Palazzo Lombardia in Milan, Italy, and the Solar Canopy/EV Dock in Chicago, Ill. – have received the coveted International Architecture Awards.

Thornton Tomasetti, the international engineering firm, has received an American Institute of Steel Construction (AISC) IDEAS2 Merit Award for its work on Cincinnati’s Great American Tower at Queen City Square roof-top tiara.

Thornton Tomasetti, the international engineering firm, has been recognized by the American Council of Engineering Companies of New York (ACEC-NY) with two 2012 Excellence in Engineering Awards at the Council’s annual gala held on March 24.

Thornton Tomasetti, the international engineering firm, was the structural project engineer for the Pennsylvania State University Millennium Science Complex, home of the new Life and Materials Science programs for the University.

Two projects for which Thornton Tomasetti provided structural engineering services, Altra Sede Regione Lombardia and Bank of Oklahoma (BOK) Center, have been named award winners by the National Council of Structural Engineers Association for its 2011 Excellence in Structural Engineering Awards. Thornton Tomasetti was recognized at NCSEA’s 19th Annual Conference, October 20 – 22 at the Renaissance Oklahoma City Convention Center.

Thornton Tomasetti’s Waddesdon Archive at Windmill Hill project recently won the Gold prize – the top honor – as well as the Structural award at this year’s Wood Awards, the U.K.’s premier architecture and furniture competition.

The much-anticipated Martin Luther King, Jr. National Memorial opened to the public on August 22, 2011, with Thornton Tomasetti providing structural design and construction administration services for the new memorial, which occupies a four-acre site along the Tidal Basin, adjacent to the Franklin D. Roosevelt Memorial.

Thornton Tomasetti, the international engineering firm, recently served as the structural engineer for the Martin Luther King, Jr. National Memorial, which will be dedicated on August 28, 2011 in Washington, D.C.

A Thornton Tomasetti project was recently awarded a Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) award. The Windmill Hill Archive and Study Centre in Waddesdon, England is now eligible for consideration for the RIBA Stirling prize, which will be announced at the end of September 2011.

Thornton Tomasetti, the international engineering firm, received three IDEAS² National Certificates of Recognition from the American Institute of Steel Construction (AISC) for its structural design of Yankee Stadium in the Bronx, N.Y., New Meadowlands Stadium in East Rutherford, N.J. and the Viva ELVIS Theater at ARIA Resort in Las Vegas, N.V.

Thornton Tomasetti won two awards at the Structural Engineers Association of Metropolitan Washington’s (SEA-MW) Excellence in Structural Engineering Awards Gala on February 26, 2011 at the Willard Intercontinental Hotel in Washington, D.C.

Thornton Tomasetti, the international engineering firm, has been named structural engineer of record for a $105 million redevelopment of Texas Christian University’s (TCU’s) Amon G. Carter (football) Stadium in Fort Worth, Texas.

Thornton Tomasetti, the international engineering firm, received the National Council of Structural Engineers Association’s (NCSEA) 2010 Excellence in Structural Engineering Award for The Wild Beast Music Pavilion at the California Institute of the Arts (CalArts).

Dennis Poon has been named one of the 50 Outstanding Asian Americans in Business for 2010.

Several engineers at Thornton Tomasetti, the international engineering firm with practices in building structure, building skin and building performance, are featured speakers at the 2010 North American Steel Construction Conference (NASCC).

Thornton Tomasetti, the international engineering firm with practices in building structure, building skin and building performance, is the recipient of the Structural Engineers Association of Kansas & Missouri (SEAKM) 2010 Grand Prize for Engineering Excellence Award for its work on the CONSOL Energy Center in Pittsburgh, Penn.

Thornton Tomasetti received Diamond and Platinum Awards for Engineering Excellence from the American Council of Engineering Companies of New York (ACEC New York) Engineering Excellence Awards for the structural design of Comcast Center in Philadelphia and Carrasco International Airport in Uruguay.

“Tall and Supertall Buildings: Structure and Skin Performance” will be a feature topic at the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat, at the Renaissance Hotel & Convention Centre, Mumbai, February 3 – 5.

Thornton Tomasetti, the international engineering firm with practices in building structure, building skin and building performance, was the structural engineer for three Midwest-based projects receiving top honors from Midwest Construction magazine.

Thornton Tomasetti, the international engineering firm with practices in building structure, building skin and building performance, was the structural engineer for three New York-based projects receiving top honors from New York Construction magazine.

Bank of Oklahoma (BOK) Center has received top honors from the American Institute of Steel Construction (AISC) and the Structural Engineers of Kansas & Missouri (SEAKM).

On May 21, 2009, Tower B, completed in 2008, was honored with the prestigious International Real Estate Federation “FIABCI Prix d’Excellence” award in the office building category, awarded to Mirax Group – Federation Tower’s well known Russian developer.

Thornton Tomasetti, Inc., a leading building engineering and design firm, has received the American Council of Engineering Companies (ACEC) New York Platinum Award for Structural Systems for its work on The Prudential Center in Newark, N.J.

The Shanghai Tower, which is still under construction, reached 501 meters (1,643 feet) April 11, surpassing the neighboring Jin Mao Building and the World Financial Center. Shanghai Tower is now the second tallest structure in China, and will become the tallest building when it reaches completion in 2014.

Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York has won an Architizer A+ Awards in the entertainment category.

The 1.6-million-sf expansion of Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, Md. is this month’s cover story. Managing Principal Wayne Stocks and Vice President Zach Kates discuss the structural design challenges of the 205-bed Charlotte R. Bloomberg Children’s Center and the 355-bed Sheikh Zayed Bin Sultan Al Nahayan Tower.

Join Joseph Burns for a look beneath the skin of this complex project: the structure and foundations and how it was constructed. He will also explain provisions for a future train station to the airport beneath the block and future residential towers along Randolph.

Thornton Tomasetti is providing structural design services and performance-based seismic analysis of the new 73-storey tower at the Wilshire Grand development, to the engineer-of-record. The new tower in Los Angeles’ Downtown will be the tallest building in the Western United States and will include hotel rooms and offices sitting atop a low-rise base housing the building’s lobby, restaurants, retail, meeting space, and ballrooms. The project also includes five levels of subterranean parking.

This is the first in a series of posts that chronicles our evolving design process at Hickok Cole Architects in Georgetown, Washington, DC as we took on the challenge of proposing a vision for the Office Building of the Future.

While you might know the Barclay’s Center Plaza at Atlantic Yards as a newly opened sports and entertainment arena in Brooklyn, you might not know that it’s sporting a vegetative roof—at ground level.

The new center will be roughly a quarter mile long and 70 feet high, with a spidery glass form extending above First and Fremont streets. The aboveground portion will serve bus passengers as well as provide shops, circulation areas and a rooftop park.

A fast-tracked design-build delivery project, the 30,000-sq-ft interpretation of the traditional courthouse on the village green features one Magistrate Court and chamber, district clerk’s office, U.S. Marshals Service and U.S. Probation and Pretrial Services.

Amon G. Carter Stadium, on the campus on Texas Christian University (TCU) in Fort Worth, Texas, has been the home of the Horned Frog football team for over 80 years. During this time the stadium has undergone several renovations and additions to accommodate ever-growing crowds, and the most recent and substantial iteration opened in time for the school’s first year competing in the Big 12 Conference.

Architecture firm Francis Cauffman announced today that the city of Newark, New Jersey has approved its design for French company Biotrial’s new North American headquarters in Newark’s University Heights Science Park.

A case study on the interior build-out of Juniper Network’s showroom and collaborative center in Bridgewater, N.J. notes that Thornton Tomasetti was the structural engineering consultant on the job. Valerio Dewalt Train Associates was the architect.

Transbay Transit Center is a multimodal transportation centre under construction in San Francisco in the US. The project will replace the outdated Transbay Terminal and integrate 11 transit systems to operate in the city under one roof.

The most high-tech stadium in sports. That’s the pitch line for Brooklyn’s new Barclays Center, new home of the Brooklyn Nets.

TCU’s new Amon G. Carter Stadium took its first bow Thursday as the school paid tribute to the many who helped make the renovations a reality.

Opportunity knocked for SHoP Architects on July 2, 2009. On that Thursday, Bruce C. Ratner, the beleaguered developer of the controversial Atlantic Yards sports village planned for Brooklyn, N.Y., made an offer that any architect would be crazy to turn down but almost as crazy to accept.

Soccer fans are flocking to the $135.5 million Sporting Park in Kansas City, Kan., which Turner Construction Co. of Kansas City, Mo., finished in 16 rather than 22 months and under budget.

Flavorwire recently listed The Wild Beast Pavilion in Valencia, Calif., as one of the world’s most beautiful outdoor theaters.

The centerpiece of the Al-Menaa project is a 30,000-seat stadium with a structural-concrete seating bowl covered by a 30,175-sq-meter, fabric-covered cable-stayed steel canopy structure.

Autodesk recently examined how BIM is transforming the Shanghai Tower into one of the tallest and greenest buildings in the world.

The Stadium Business Awards has named the Sporting Park in Kansas as the world’s best sports venue over the past year.

This fully integrated Building Team opted for a multi-prime contracting strategy to keep construction going on Chicago’s Rush University Medical Center, despite the economic meltdown.

An American firm approaches the design of its 121-story, mixed used tower now rising in Shanghai as a vertical collection of neighborhoods.

Construction work on Baha Mar’s $2.6 billion Cable Beach redevelopment is “one-third complete”, a senior executive said yesterday, after hitting a “significant milestone” with the installation of the last of 2,550 foundation pilings.

This high-profile headquarters includes five nine-story wavelike buildings that total 1.05 million square feet (98,000 square meters), a 43-story tower that is 405,000 square feet (37,000 square meters), three parking/storage levels below grade and a plaza with an irregular footprint of 856 feet by 607 feet (261 meters by 185 meters).

Even in midconstruction, there are moments touring the Barclays Center in Prospect Heights when you can’t help but feel extreme joy.

The article looks at our use of a curved steel frame double-wall system at the Cathedral of Hope, Interfaith Peace Chapel in Dallas, Texas.

Rush University Medical Center opened its new facility Friday morning on the Near West Side.

The Vista Xchange Integrated Civic and Cultural Hub was named one of the 11 Best Architecture Moments of 2011 by the Huffington Post.

Washington Hospital Healthcare System said Friday it’s wrapped up work on a new central utility plant, part of a estimated $300 million expansion and seismic upgrade project outlined in late 2004.

The Memorial comprises three major elements with an abundance of landscaping to integrate it with the historic cherry tree lined perimeter of the Tidal Basin.

Seoul has recently become a financial capital in Northeast Asia, and now enjoys a status similar to that of Hong Kong, Shanghai, Singapore, and other Asian cities.

At their annual meeting in Oklahoma City, OK on October 22, NCSEA announced the winners of the 2011 Excellence in Structural Engineering Awards.

Detailed modeling & analysis of the numerous load cases enabled us to extend the service life of New York’s Roosevelt Island Tram.

When plans were announced last month to construct the world’s tallest building in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, it was not surprising that much of the focus was on the sheer height of the structure.

About half of the steel is now in place at the Barclays Center, as NY1 saw on a recent tour with developer Bruce Ratner.

The new Winspear Opera House in Dallas redefines the essence of an opera house for the twenty first century, breaking down barriers to make opera more accessible for a wider audience.

Craig Hodgetts and Hsinming Fung discuss their new animal-like performance space for the California Institute of the Arts.

Baha Mar, billed as the largest single-phase resort development in the history of the Caribbean, celebrated another milestone with the driving of the first of 5,700 pilings on yesterday.

In what must be record time, the University of Pennsylvania Health System and the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine (collectively known as Penn Medicine) have recently completed the second phase of the Perelman Center for Advanced Medicine.

Sunil Gulati, head of U.S. soccer, summed up the general impression by calling it “the best stadium of its size on earth.”

The design and construction of expanded facilities for the Children’s Hospital of Illinois and OSF Saint Francis Medical Center, Peoria, was such a significant development at the hospital that it was known as the Milestone project.

The Pittsburgh Penguins may not win the National Hockey League’s Stanley Cup this year, but the team still scored a big win with its new arena.

Designed to become a strong local landmark Villa In The Sky tower by noted Henning Larsen Architects will span over 34 floors on a special location in the King Abdullah Financial District in Riyad.

SEA-MW held its fifth annual awards gala at the Willard Intercontinental in Washington, DC on Saturday, February 26, 2011.

A promo of the eight acre (5.4 million-square-foot) development in South Korea.

When the wrecking ball came down on San Francisco’s 71-year-old Transbay Terminal bus station in December, it marked the end of an era—and the beginning of a new one. The drab concrete structure will be replaced with the long-planned Transbay Transit Center, perhaps the most ambitious transportation hub to be built in the United States in the past few decades.

The new indoor-outdoor music pavilion on the CalArts campus in Valencia, California, is wild but welcoming, featuring a flowing, arched roofline.

The new Fedex cargo facility features a massive green roof at Chicago O’Hare International Airport.

Pittsburgh’s new ice hockey arena, the CONSOL Energy Center, is the first in the National Hockey League to achieve gold certification in the U.S. Green Building Council’s Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) program.

While ensuring that waterproofing, vapor, wind loads and other Superdome repair needs were met, a metal-wall panel system with a structural sub-framing clip-attachment system was developed so a single wall panel can be removed from any location without disturbing the adjacent wall panels

It was the 4,521st piece of steel (more or less)—and the final girder placed in Gateway Community College’s fast-materializing $198 million new downtown campus.

Even during a time of dwindling capital and stalling public works projects San Francisco is moving forward with plans for a $4.2 billion transportation center that could dramatically change how the city looks and travels.

CONSOL Energy Center has been named the “Best NHL Arena” in the sixth annual Sports Business Journal readers’ survey on the state of the sports industry.

The 121-story Shanghai Tower is more than China’s next record-setting building: It’s an economic lifeline for the elite club of skyscraper builders.

The project team built a new steel frame to hold an independent glass wall system around one of Indianapolis’ most recognizable buildings, replacing a surface damaged by storm winds.

At their annual meeting in Phoenix in October, NCSEA announced the winners of the 2009 Excellence in Structural Engineering Awards. This awards program annually highlights some of the best examples of structural ingenuity throughout the world.

The completely rebuilt Roosevelt Island Tramway opened today, following a nine-month modernization project which replaced the previous 33-year-old tram system. The new tram reduces travel time, permits both cabins to start on the side with highest demand during rush hour, and includes extensive safety measures.

The erection of steel began today at the Barclays Center at Atlantic Yards in Brooklyn, Bruce Ratner, Chairman and CEO of Forest City Ratner Companies, the developer of the arena, said today. The first components for vertical construction, including beams, girders and trusses, will be used for the main arena, façade support and the canopy.

Much of the state is still slogging through a slow-to-recover economy. But in Fayetteville, the broader region around Fort Bragg and even as far away as the Triangle, planners are bracing for an influx of about 40,000 people who are expected to come with – or follow – two major Army commands moving to Fort Bragg.

The $66-million Temecula Civic Center is more than a big, new facility for the city. The development is also a tribute to the history of the area.

California Institute of the Arts’ long-awaited state-of-the-art performance space, the Wild Beast, is up and running, “humming from 9 a.m. to 10 p.m. with classes and performances,” says David Rosenboom, dean of the institute’s Herb Alpert School of Music.

Revised state seismic regulations prompted the construction of a technologically advanced replacement facility at El Camino Hospital, Mountain View, Calif., which is designed to support patients and families, create operational efficiencies and adapt to future needs

A beautifully daylit infill addition between a hospital and an office building harvests precious space for diagnostics, treatment, and surgery.

Back in 2007, when the government here announced its plan for “the world’s first zero-carbon city” on the outskirts of Abu Dhabi, many Westerners dismissed it as a gimmick — a faddish follow-up to neighboring Dubai’s half-mile-high tower in the desert and archipelago of man-made islands in the shape of palm trees.

It was a perfect start for Penguins fans attending the first exhibition hockey game in CONSOL Energy Center Wednesday.

The Masdar Headquarters will be the world’s first positive-energy building, producing more energy than it consumes and surpassing the standards for LEED Platinum™ sustainable design certification.

Those winners include, of course, the top prize of Overall Project of the Year, which, this year, was claimed by the team that designed and built the New Meadowlands Stadium in East Rutherford, N.J. The project will be honored at the Best Of 2010 awards program in December.

The Kentucky Horse Park is ‘the center of the hub’ for regional, national and international equine organizations.

After decades of planning, construction work on the Transbay Transit Center officially began Wednesday following a politician-heavy groundbreaking ceremony.

CONSOL Energy Center has achieved LEED Gold certification, becoming the first NHL arena to reach that standard of sustainability, it was announced today by the Pittsburgh Penguins and the Sports & Exhibition Authority.

How do you keep football fans as regular visitors to stadiums when the television coverage of every play is so good?

Designers of the 121-story Shanghai Tower, with its record-tall composite steel-and-concrete structure, are helping craft China’s first superskyscraper building code.

The tiara was placed on the Great American Tower at Queen City Square on Tuesday, July 13, 2010.

With hundreds of guests and well-wishers on hand, 200 Fifth Avenue marked its 100th birthday on June 17th with a giant cake shaped in its likeness and a host of achievements to celebrate.

A new sports project in Basrah, southern Iraq, has the potential to heal the wounds of war and mark a new start for a city in desperate need of hope.

“Getting Across Campus,” by Senior Engineer Joseph Shields, addresses how colleges and universities are using a variety of steel solutions in the design of pedestrian bridges.

There was plenty of buzz (but not of the Lightyear kind) last night on the roof of 200 Fifth Ave, formerly known as the International Toy Center. L&L Holding Co., the owner of the historic property, held a party to celebrate the building’s 100th birthday and completion of a $135M renovation.

Consolidating the two campuses of Gateway Community College – the Long Wharf campus in New Haven and another in North Haven, Conn., began last December with the $140 million construction of a single downtown New Haven campus, scheduled to finish in May 2012.

The complexity of the new Margot and Bill Winspear Opera House is fully realized not just in the design and painstaking construction of its complex, one-of-a-kind components but also in the management of the process that brought it to fruition.

NFL owners voted Tuesday to put the 48th Super Bowl in the new $1.6 billion Meadowlands Stadium that this season will become home to the New York Jets and New York Giants. It’s the first time the league has gone to a cold-weather site that doesn’t have a dome, and those places couldn’t even bid on the big game until now.

The UK Pavilion at the World Expo 2010 Shanghai by Thomas Heatherwick Studios, Timberyard Social Housing in Dublin by O’Donnell & Tuomey and the Anchorage Museum in Alaska by David Chipperfield Architects are the three contenders for the Royal Institute of British Architects’ (RIBA) prestigious RIBA Lubetkin Prize for the best international building by an RIBA member.

When Mark Lamping talked about a truly soft opening of the New Meadowlands Stadium, the chief executive of the $1.6 billion home for the Giants and Jets wasn’t kidding.

If the trend in baseball stadiums is intimacy, in football, it is grandeur. And the New Meadowlands Stadium, the home of the Jets and the Giants, is certainly imposing.

Mark Lamping, President and CEO of the New Meadowlands stadium, takes the Associated Press on a tour of the future home of the New York Jets and New York Giants.

When President Obama threw out the first pitch at the Washington Nationals’ season opener on Monday, he kicked off not only a new baseball season but also a new round of fundraisers at Nationals Park.

An article about the state of the New Jersey construction industry, “Head Above Water,” notes the near completion of the New Meadowlands Stadium. Vice President Armindo Guimaraes Monteiro discusses our use of Revit on the project.

Mirax Group will continue the construction of a Moscow skyscraper set to be one of the tallest buildings in Europe, an executive said on Wednesday.

Despite years of protests and lawsuits meant to stop it, ground is being broken on the new arena for the Nets in Brooklyn today. Work has been going on at the Atlantic Yards site in Prospect Heights since last fall, but those involved say today’s groundbreaking marks the next phase in construction of the 18,000-seat Barclays Center.

Now that Atlantic Yards is all but cleared for construction, Forest City Ratner is showing off what the interior will look like.

This nearly 800-foot-tall tower’s pleated curtain wall is more than just an intriguing design gesture.

San Francisco’s ambitious $4billion Transbay Transit Center Project can now move forward following the closure of a $171 million Transportation Infrastructure Finance and Innovation Act (TIFIA) loan deal for the project.

Hundreds of contractors and local leaders crowded together at the corner of Third and Sycamore streets Tuesday to look on as the final steel beam was lifted into place for The Great American Tower at Queen City Square.

The 194,000-square-foot facility will be a place where teaching, learning and research come together in an integrated way, with the research providing content for the curriculum and with students learning through exploration of real-world problems, according to architects Ayers/Saint/Gross of Baltimore.

A modern interpretation of a traditional performance venue, the design of the new Margot and Bill Winspear Opera House in Dallas, emerged from the close cooperation on the part of engineers, architects and acoustical and theatrical experts that enabled them to overcome such noise and vibration challenges as the structure’s proximity to a major freeway and its location directly beneath the flight path of a Dallas airport.

Sin City is pinning its biggest bet ever — $8.5 billion — on a 67-acre, six-tower complex of striking hotels, gourmet restaurants, swank shops and a single casino that starts opening Tuesday in the heart of the Las Vegas Strip.

Architects and the dean of the music department collaborate on a dream addition to the Cal Arts campus.

Colossal doesn’t begin to describe CityCenter, that $8.5 billion complex opening on Las Vegas Boulevard next week, which looks to shake up the Strip at a time when the last thing it needs is more competition.

Located in downtown Philadelphia right above the Suburban rail station, the Comcast Center has been awarded the title of “tallest LEED certified building in the US” after earning a Gold Certification for LEED-CS (Core & Shell).

While other cities are tightening their belts, Dallas is polishing its buckle

Three decades in the planning and three years in construction, the final costs of the new passenger terminal and other midfield developments at Indianapolis International Airport remain pegged on budget at $1.07 billion.

A new addition to Colorado’s Crested Butte resort braves the weather, as well as building height restrictions.

The Wild Beast, an ingenious new structure on CalArts’ campus, transforms from outdoor performance space to air tight concert and classroom venue.

Silicon Valley has a new and improved hospital. The media got a preview of El Camino Hospital in Mountain View on Tuesday. Seismically speaking, it is one of the safest hospitals in Northern California. It is also billed as a “smart” hospital.

More than three months before it opens, the $8.5 billion CityCenter development has received three Leadership in Energy and Environment Design (LEED) gold certifications from the U.S. Green Building Council.

Texas wouldn’t be the premier location when one considers a foray into the world of the arts, or at least it wouldn’t have, until now. Billed as the most significant cultural complex in America since New York’s Lincoln Centre, the $354-million Dallas Centre for the Performing Arts is set to open next month to complete the city’s 25 year vision for the 68 acre arts district.

Even Babe Ruth would have trouble recognizing the old Yankee Stadium now. The beloved ballpark’s iconic facade – the white scalloped frieze that ran above the scoreboard and billboards – is being pulled down as demolition kicks into high gear.

Soaring 58 stories and 975 feet above downtown Philadelphia, the new Comcast Center, which was recently awarded LEED Core and Shell Gold Certification, now has the distinction of being the tallest certified green building in the United States.

“Ruth’s New Digs,” (starting on page 28) covers our work as structural engineer on Yankee Stadium in New York.

Blythedale Children’s Hospital began a new chapter in its 118-year history as hospital executives and trustees joined with government officials and invited guests on June 19 for the groundbreaking of a $63.5 million modernization project.

All architecture, to a certain extent, is a response to the demands of external forces and interior programming. Eleven Times Square, however, a new speculative office tower designed by FXFowle now nearing completion on 42nd Street and 8th Avenue, goes further than most structures in deferring to its surroundings while catering to the needs of tenants.

Brad Malmsten provides an update on our work on Moscow’s Federation Tower, the tallest building in Europe, on page 34.

An increasingly common approach to all-glass facades is to use multiple types of glass with varying performance characteristics. Such a strategy was employed by New York City–based Audrey Matlock, AIA, for the design of the Chelsea Modern, a 47-unit residential building on a tight midblock Manhattan site.

When the most storied franchise in sports decides to replace the most historic ballpark in baseball, challenges would be expected at every level—political, budget and schedule, fan expectation, and historical reverence. To meet these challenges, the New York Yankees and developer Tishman Speyer assembled an all-star design team. The result is a new Yankee Stadium that respects its rich history, while achieving a facility with cutting-edge design and fan amenities.

It’s certainly not your average building project by any stretch of the imagination – a 2.2 million square foot, open-air sports facility with a contract value in excess of $1 billion, boasting 82,500 stadium seats and 217 luxury suites, and utilizing 3,000 pieces of precast concrete and 23,000 tons of structural steel during construction

San Francisco is a world-class city, but we have always missed one thing – a real, world-class train station. That is about to change. After years of planning, we are ready to break ground on a new, multi-modal, state-of-the-art public transit facility – the Transbay Transit Center – which will connect regional bus lines, including AC Transit, with BART and Caltrain and eventually, California High Speed Rail.

The award-winning adaptive reuse of Chicago’s historic Soldier Field tackled complex geometry and steel construction innovations within a 20-month construction schedule, making it one of the NFL’s fastest built stadiums.

Contractors have heard a lot of lofty claims about building information modeling in recent years: millions of dollars in savings, months of schedule gains and greater quality control. Now, as the technology gains broader acceptance in the contracting world, many of those promises are turning out to be real payoffs.

Practically in the center of the country, the city of Tulsa, Okla. seems as good as any a focal point for the new $178 million, 18,500-seat Bank of Oklahoma (BOK) Center, and there’s even more incentive for teams and musicians to drop in.

At a 975-foot height, Comcast Center is Philadelphia’s tallest building—a distinction that should last at least as long as the recession.

A 15,400 m2 project currently underway in London’s Strand Conservation Area, a historically important district in the city of Westminster, will bring modern design and engineering to a prominent structure without in any way detracting from its historical character.

The main lesson learned by the construction manager who recently completed a pioneering four-year, BIM-enabled project to build a replacement ballpark for the New York Yankees is “the more trades modeling, the merrier,” says James Barrett, manager of virtual design and construction for Turner Construction Co., the CM at-risk.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Talk about amenities: The city’s first meeting place had a convenient ground-floor jail. But West Palm Beach’s new $154 million City Center, on Dixie Highway across Banyan Boulevard from where that rickety “calaboose” hosted prisoners and pols in 1894, will have far more features that the first one didn’t.

The Palm Beach Post ran a slideshow of the building alongside its New City Center Opens article.

The state-of-the-art, two story, six-courtroom courthouse cost approximately $50 million, and was a collaborative effort between the Superior Court of California, the County of Santa Clara and the City of Morgan Hill.

Building Information Modeling has become as ubiquitous as the idea of “green.” Given the economic recession that has cooled the area’s building boom, BIM has become the industry’s next great hope.

The new 73,000-square-foot facility at 301 Diana Ave. will be a “vast improvement” for court patrons and employees who have been housed in a complex of temporary trailers at the San Martin Courthouse on Monterey Road, according to Carl Schulhof of the Santa Clara County Superior Court.

Built From Disaster is a six part documentary series about man-made structures – and how engineers and designers across the world have learned the lessons from tragic disasters of design.

Apparently the California Institute of the Arts has a penchant for naming its performing arts venues after animals. First came REDCAT. (OK, it’s technically the Roy and Edna Disney/CalArts Theater at Walt Disney Concert Hall, but who actually calls it that?) Now the cutting-edge arts school is looking into the jaws of the Wild Beast, a new music pavilion soon to open on the school’s Valencia campus.

The online edition of New York Construction recently published a series of construction photos of New Meadowlands Stadium, for which Thornton Tomasetti is the structural engineer.

Students and faculty at the University of Michigan’s Stephen M. Ross School of Business have spent the last few weeks settling into a gleaming new $145 million state-of-the-art building on the Ann Arbor campus.

Singapore is three months closer to the realisation of a remarkable landmark on the island.

Architect Renzo Piano made his mark along with his partner Richard Rodgers, in the design of the renowned Pompidou Centre in Paris.

The New York Times building exemplifies the idea of transparency in reporting by wearing part of its structural frame on the outside.

Until recently, no buildings in Moscow surpassed the 240-meter Moscow State University—the tallest of the city’s “Seven Sisters” towers built at sites throughout the city during Stalin’s era. But a few years ago, Russia’s new wealth from natural resources started an upward rush.

Many different applications of concrete were used in the design of the tower within a framework of uncomplicated detailing and repetition of elements explain Tanya de Hoog, Les Postawa and Ben John of Thornton Tomasetti.

Despite a young, charismatic mayor, a rich history, and close proximity to New
York City’s business districts, Newark has been long considered a textbook example of urban blight. Newark’s biggest construction project in decades – the
$375 million New Jersey Devils hockey arena, completed in October 2007 – is
now seen as a symbol of the city’s rejuvenation, not least of all by the people directly involved with it.

For nearly a century, the New York Times Company and its most celebrated newspaper had been headquartered in the heart of Manhattan near Times Square. But when the media giant outgrew its site and the surrounding area underwent extensive commercial redevelopment, the firm’s owners decided to construct a new headquarters building. Their goal: a structure in which the levels of technical and architectural sophistication would mirror the firm’s leading role within the media industry.

If there is one staple in health-care design, it is that program takes priority. The functionality of the building to serve its doctors and patients is the primary design goal. This idea is resonant in the structural design for the Johns Hopkins Hospital New Clinical Building.

Contractors consider the health-care market a valued component of their portfolios because it often remains strong while other segments of the economy falter.

September 25 will mark a new era in hospital building and design as Rush University Medical Center celebrates the groundbreaking for its new hospital designed “from the inside out.”

For most airports, increasing capacity means adding a new terminal or expanding an existing one. This fall, however, passengers flying into and out of Indianapolis will be passing through not just a new terminal but a completely new airport.

This page is dedicated to Tulsa’s BOK Center, which is a $178 million, 18,500-seat facility funded through the Vision 2025 initiative. Here you will find a video tour of the building, the latest headlines about the project’s development and opening, an up-to-date events calendar and much more.

There are lots of ways you can use the word “natural.” Like “There’s nothing artificial in this. It’s all natural.” Or “This setting really shows the natural beauty of the area.” Or “The official nickname of the state of Arkansas is ‘The natural state.’” Or “That baseball player has great skills. He’s a natural.”

Well, Arvest Ballpark, the home of the Northwest Arkansas Naturals baseball team, can lay claim to all of those meanings of “natural.” And then some. That’s why it is BASEBALLPARKS.COM’s Ballpark of the Year for 2008.

Thornton Tomasetti’s Mark Tamaro, Jeffrey D’Andrea and Lucas Nisley describe the design-build process for the new Nationals Park in Washington DC.

“Changing the Way We Deliver Stadiums,” is the cover story about our work on the Washington, D.C. Nationals Ballpark, Yankee Stadium, and the New Meadowlands Stadium.

The Plaza 66 Tower 2, in Shanghai, China, posed a number of engineering challenges, among them determining solutions for poor foundation conditions in an area that sees seismic activity and typhoons, evaluating settlement effects on the new tower and the existing tower on-site, designing a curved bridge to connect the two towers, and constructing a complex steel roof lantern with two-way slopes.

“Every resident of the District of Columbia should be proud that we have not only the greatest ballpark in the country but also the greenest.”

- Adrian M. Fenty, mayor of Washington, DC

The periodical’s cover story, “Are You Ready for BIM?” features the Washington, D.C. Nationals Stadium with a special report on how the Thornton Tomasetti D.C. office used BIM.

Richard inside Taipei 101, with a model of the massive building.

The International Toy Center always sounded like just about any child’s definition of heaven. But very few children — and not that many more grown-ups — ever got inside the two great fortresslike showroom buildings on the west side of Madison Square Park.

The Washington Nationals Ballpark made the cover of the April 2008 ASCE issue, and the story, “A Capitol Investment,” was written by Mark Tamaro, Jeff D’Andrea and Lucas Nisley.

Three-dimensional information, such as that provided by building information modeling, allows all members of the Building Team to visualize the many components of a project and how they work together. BIM and other 3D tools convey the idea and intent of the designer to the entire Building Team and lay the groundwork for integrated project delivery.

The new 42,000-square-foot upper school addition at St.Edmond’s Academy includes
a three-classroom cluster for each grade level, as well as science and music rooms, a chapel, and a field house.

What with demand for housing and offices seemingly as far as ever from being saturated and land plots in permanently short supply, it’s clear that the real estate market is going to drive Moscow upwards.

The Dormitory Authority of the State of New York (DASNY), the University at Buffalo, and Roswell Park Cancer Institute today announced that UB’S New York State Center of Excellence in Bioinformatics and Life Sciences and Roswell Park’s Center for Genetics and Pharmacology have been honored by the nation’s leading evaluator of environmentally sustainable buildings.

The New York Times Building in Manhattan, New York, is the best in clever and yet subtle architecture but its designers have bucked the trend and not tried for LEED accreditation, opting instead to build for user comfort. Does this bode well for skyscraper design in the 21st Century?

Not long ago, the block between 17th and 18th Streets on JFK Blvd. in downtown Philadelphia was a parking lot. But thanks to positive market conditions and an increased demand for top-tier commercial development in this vibrant office district, the site was ripe for a world-class office building.

Despite strong community opposition, the Sacramento City Council gave Mercy General Hospital the green light to build a new cardiac center in what is now a residential area.

Though Sacramento’s economy, like practically all other California cities’, will not rebound sufficiently this year to offset the housing construction decline, economists and planners in the city expect a flat year of growth and modest growth in some construction segments.

Two major healthcare projects are underway and soon to be underway that will mean, of course, construction jobs.

With only 23 months to complete all the bases, the team building the 85%-complete D.C. Major League baseball park is getting very close to hitting
construction’s equivalent of a grand slam off a 100- mph pitch. If it opens April 1 as planned, the $611-million for the Washington Nationals will break the speed record for major-league ballpark construction.

With a rich history dating back to the early 1800s, the Block 37 section of the Downtown Loop district has seen periods of activity and dormancy. Vacant since 1989, Block 37 is once again ready to become a central focus for downtown Chicago.

Thornton Tomasetti has recently completed the structural engineering of a $151-million expansion and renovation of the Walnut Hill campus at Presbyterian Hospital in Dallas. This major expansion includes a 512,000-square-foot inpatient bed tower, which will create specialized units for central sterile radiology, respiratory therapy, cardiopulmonary, and laboratory. The expansion also includes the design of a new 397,000-square-foot parking structure to accommodate the demands of the new facility.

Thornton Tomasetti has recently completed the structural engineering of a $151-million expansion and renovation of the Walnut Hill campus at Presbyterian Hospital in Dallas.

Seven years ago, officials at Chicago’s Northwestern Memorial Hospital took a hard look at Prentice Women’s Hospital, knowing full well that, after 25 years of service, their Gold Coast jewel was delivering many more births than it could handle. It became clear that it was time for a new, grander women’s hospital, one with updated technology and advanced clinical services, to keep up with the competition in the hotly contested Chicago women’s health market.

The Old Patent Office Building in Washington, D.C., completed in 1867, houses two Smithsonian Institution museums—the National Portrait Gallery and the American Art Museum. Collections include portraits of all U.S. presidents, along with paintings, sculptures, prints, and drawings of numerous historic figures from American history, and the works of more than 7,000 American artists.

Can the design of a building enhance patient care and promote healing? That was a key goal in the development of the new Prentice Women’s Hospital soon to open on the Northwestern Memorial campus in Chicago.

The intent of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute’s Janelia Farm Research Campus was to offer an environment that would stimulate researchers to exchange ideas.

Kaiser Permanente breaks ground today on a new cancer center that the HMO expects to attract about 100 patients a day for radiation treatment.

Stadium and arena projects worth nearly $3 billion are currently under construction in the New York City metropolitan area, and another $1 billion is under consideration.

Already rising four stories out of the ground in a concrete horseshoe, the Dallas Center for the Performing Arts’ Margot and Bill Winspear Opera House is starting to take shape.

This article focuses on the application of constructability to solve tough challenges that required resolution during the construction of Ford Field, home of the Detroit Lions.

In February 2006, the Washington DC Sports and Entertainment Commission authorized Clark/Hunt/Smoot A Joint Venture to construct a $611 million ballpark for the Washington DC Nationals baseball team, to be completed for opening day of the 2008 season.

Crested Butte is retooling its image and finding a new market for development, which is coming at a fast pace in this formerly sleepy ski resort.

Not too many years ago, Moscow’s skyline consisted of little more than the onion domes of the Kremlin and the Gothic spires of the Stalin-era buildings known as the Seven Sisters. But today, a forest of cranes dominates a 250-acre stretch along the Moscow River, where the 93-story Federation Tower — soon to be Europe’s tallest — is rising.

The first of its kind, the Janelia Farm Research Complex transforms accepted patterns of scientific research and typical designs for lab buildings.

In many respects, the newly expanded Lucas Center is a building of opposites.

NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital broke ground yesterday on a cardiac center that hospital officials said would greatly expand its research capabilities and contribute to battling cardiovascular diseases

The 52-story tower will have large amounts of exposed steel elements supporting an innovative curtain wall, requiring an intensive fabrication and installation effort.

With its shimmering skin of high-quality clear glass and ceramic rods that will appear to change color as light hits from different angles, the 1.6-million-sq.-ft. New York Times building has a chance to become an icon of New York City’s skyline.

St. Petersburg native Sergei Tchoban doesn’t think his design for Europe’s tallest building will violate Moscow’s vertical integrity.

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Completed March 2004, ABN AMRO Plaza houses over 4,000 employees in Chicago’s
first high-rise building designated as a technology center.

The high-profile public ceremony in Moscow on February 9 officially set off construction on the “Federation” towers in the city’s future financial district. The “Federation” will be the kernel of the planned Moscow-City, an area four kilometers northwest of the Kremlin where most government and business activity will be relocated by 2010.

victory for the Padres over the visiting San Francisco Giants. The day also represented a hard-earned win for the ballpark’s Building Team, whose members, including 67 of the 68 subcontractors, stuck together to finish the project despite a 16-month halt in construction.

The biggest project under way is the new Alex G. Spanos Heart Center, part of a $150 million expansion of Mercy General’s cardiac services.

Tall buildings are getting greener. Or green buildings are getting taller. Either way you slice it, the sustainability movement in the U.S. has gone large-scale and skyward, and nowhere is this more apparent than in New York City.

Bringing Chicago’s historic Soldier Field into the 21st century meant fitting a full-size, modern stadium into a 600’-wide space on a 20-month schedule.

Despite political and financial wranglings, Pittsburgh’s new baseball field comes in on time and on budget.

The new football stadium at Soldier Field in Chicago is an uncannily accurate portrait of a great American city in changing times.

At a news organization, truth is the top priority. The design of a signature, headquarters property for The New York Times Co., one of the most prominent news organizations in the world, required truth as well.

One notable exception to this sad state of affairs sits northwest of the Loop in the River North neighborhood, a growing residential area with light-industrial roots. The 25-story Erie on the Park, with its steel chevron braces, parallelogram shape, and remarkable transparency, is as eye-catching as the views of the city it offers.

Shoehorning a football field and seating bowl, complete with suites, into the horseshoe-shaped perimeter bay of a narrow venue built 80 years ago for track and field was enough to drive many toward distraction.

Drawn by rave reviews in the press and by word of mouth, devotees of art and architecture are streaming here to visit the new home of the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth.

Just how was Tadao Ando’s design for Modern Art Museum of Ft. Worth translated into a concrete reality? The engineers explain the solutions that range from the exotic to the purely functional.

The architect of a new $55 million art museum in Fort Worth is winning praise for his groundbreaking use of concrete, but much of the credit goes to engineers who have developed new ways to use the age- old material.

Steel framing provides flexible layouts in this recent mid-rise residential condominium project in Chicago. The building facade features exposed steel elements that mirror the structure behind the sleek steel and glass curtain wall.