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The Met’s Tang Wing Breaks Ground in New York CitySeptember 16, 2026
The Met has broken ground on its new Tang Wing in New York City, with Thornton Tomasetti providing structural engineering for the major museum expansion.
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Preparing for Hurricane Season 2023June 01, 2023
As we approach the start of the 2023 Atlantic hurricane season, let’s take a look back at the 2022 season, as well as the developing El Niño, and learn what this means for the season to come.
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Play Ball!March 30, 2023
It’s spring and that means baseball is back! At ballparks everywhere ground crews are prepping the turf and chalking the baselines as coaches finalize their starting lineups.
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Lithium-Ion Battery Fire Safety in Building Design + ConstructionJanuary 10, 2023
Thornton Tomasetti experts Ali Ashrafi and Elisa Paone examine the fire safety risks lithium-ion batteries can pose in buildings in a recent Building Design + Construction article.
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Hydrogen Explosion Events and Comparison with MethaneNovember 09, 2022
The use of hydrogen as a replacement for natural gas presents all of the hazards we associate with natural gas although the extent of the hazards can be greater for hydrogen; the flammability ranges in air for hydrogen are 4 % to 75 % by volume, high pressure releases of hydrogen can auto-ignite and hydrogen explosions can be more severe as hydrogen is more prone to detonation.
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AI Engine in Silico Trials: Aortic Graft Stent DemonstratorAugust 17, 2022
The medical device industry recognizes the general motivation for in silico trials. The CORE.AI project at Thornton Tomasetti aims to create an automated workflow for medical device in silico trials. In this work, the goal of the in-silico trial is to assess the efficacy and safety of a generic, representative thoracic stent graft for the treatment of a thoracic aortic aneurysm (TAA).
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Arecibo Collapse Forensic Report ReleasedAugust 11, 2022
It took just seconds for the 900-ton instrument platform at the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico to come crashing down into the 305-meter-wide dish, destroying the iconic radio telescope.
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Arecibo Telescope Collapse Forensic ReportAugust 11, 2022
It took just seconds for the 900-ton instrument platform at the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico to come crashing down into the 305-meter-wide dish, destroying the iconic radio telescope. A Thornton Tomasetti team of forensic engineers worked to determine the cause of the failure. Our findings were released by the National Science Foundation (NSF) in August 2022.
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Trust & Partnership: MWBE as It Should BeJune 20, 2022
Our Washington, D.C., office has partnered with small, woman-owned structural firm A+F Engineers on more than 12 projects over 17 years. Representatives of both recently sat down to discuss their experience together.