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, 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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

The dramatic roof covering the new terminal at the Aeropuerto Internacional de Carrasco in Uruguay, was designed to compliment the site’s undulating, seaside surroundings.

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

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.

The new Carrasco International Airport, opened in 2009 and designed by Uruguayan-born architect Rafael Viñoly, is a gorgeous throwback to JFK circa 1960.

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.

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 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.

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

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

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.

“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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Last year, Memphis International Airport (MEM) handled 4.2 million tons of cargo – more than any other airport in the world for the 17th year in a row. Memphis-based FedEx Corporation accounted for all but 2% of the volume. To move that kind of tonnage, FedEx needs big cargo planes. To service the planes, it needs a big hangar. A 146,257-square-foot hangar, to be exact.

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.

“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 just two months until scheduled completion, contractors at the Naval Air Station in Jacksonville, Fla., are putting finishing touches on the U.S. Navy’s largest hangar, which is being built to make room for five squadrons coming from Maine under the government’s Base Realignment and Closure program.

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

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.

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

“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.

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.

A 32,000m2 airport terminal designed by Rafael Viñoly is under construction at Montevideo airport in the architect’s home country of Uruguay.

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.

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.

In a delicate operation that has been compared to pulling off a tablecloth without breaking any china, contractors at Milwaukee’s Miller Park have completed the replacement of pivot bearings for the stadium’s operable roof.

It’s the largest trading floor in the world – 54 ft. high, 225 ft. wide and the length of two football fields – and it’s in Stamford, Conn.