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AP: New York City’s skyscrapers are built to withstand most earthquakesApril 09, 2024
While last Friday’s 4.8 magnitude earthquake left many in the metro New York area shaken, it had a negligible effect on the city’s skyscrapers.
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Action News 5 Memphis: Tom Lee Park Installs New Wooden Canopy Beams
November 04, 2022
Crews hoisted a wooden beam into place on the giant metal canopy which will be the centerpiece of the park. The contractor calls this “an engineering marvel that no one has ever seen in Memphis before.”
KC Current Stadium Breaks Ground
November 03, 2022
The first purpose-built venue for a professional female soccer team in North America broke ground last month in Missouri.
ENR: With Exchange, LIFTbuild Delivering First Top-Down Project in the US Since the '70s
October 28, 2022
When each of the 500-ton, 11,000-sq-ft floorplates are ready to be lifted, they’re raised by eight strand jacks, with a capacity of about 200 tons apiece, staged on the ground with pulley systems at the top.
Vox: How To Build a Wood Skyscraper
October 27, 2022
Skyscrapers are synonymous with concrete and steel, but that’s quickly changing. Thanks to its aesthetic, structural and sustainability benefits, towers constructed of mass timber are popping up in cities around the globe.
AZURE: The BARLO MS Centre Creates an “Orchestra of Care”
October 20, 2022
Designed by Hariri Pontarini Architects, the new clinic at Toronto’s St. Michael’s Hospital aims to deinstitutionalize the healthcare experience.
New David Geffen Hall Opens in Manhattan
October 11, 2022
It was curtain up this past weekend at the new David Geffen Hall at New York City’s famed Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts.
CSI: How Chicago's Iconic Tower Underwent a Modern Transformation
October 07, 2022
Through steel technology and, more importantly, collaboration and creative thinking across the project team, this update provides a new appreciation for—and a new way to enjoy—this landmark tower.
ConstructConnect: Community centre to be the city’s first net-zero building
October 04, 2022
The Pickering Heritage and Community Centre will be green in more ways than one.