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 Irvine Principal Leonard Joseph, P.E., S.E. and New York Senior Principal Hi Sun Choi, P.E., LEED AP have been named co-chairs of the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat’s Outrigger Design Working Group.

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, 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, 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, Inc., the international engineering design, investigation and analysis firm, will be a key participant at “Innovative Integrate: Building Better Together,” an AIA New York Chapter-sponsored exhibition, showcasing finalists of the Chapter’s “Open Call for Innovative Curtain-Wall Design.”

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, 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).

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.

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

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.

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

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 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.

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.

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?

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

“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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.