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Rochester, Minn., plans extensive geothermal network

The city of Rochester, Minn., home of the famed Mayo Clinic, is going big on geothermal networks. The city is constructing Thermal Energy Networks (TENs) that consist of ambient pipe loops connecting multiple buildings and delivering thermal heating and cooling energy via water-source heat pumps.




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Engineers

Engineering goes hand-in-hand with design, putting a practical lens on the architect’s vision and finding the best way to make it happen. Without a talented engineer, the project will never reach completion, and certainly will not reach the standards of functionality and sustainability that the architect and client are seeking.

May 31, 2012

Day & Zimmermann taps Jobe for ECM VP

Ken Jobe, a senior executive with 30+ years of industry-related experience, joins Day & Zimmermann to expand footprint in the process & industrial markets.

May 31, 2012

Perkins+Will-designed engineering building at University of Buffalo opens

Clad in glass and copper-colored panels, the three-story building thrusts outward from the core of the campus to establish a new identity for the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences and the campus at large.

May 30, 2012

Construction milestone reached for $1B expansion of San Diego International Airport

Components of the $9-million structural concrete construction phase included a 700-foot-long, below-grade baggage-handling tunnel; metal decks covered in poured-in-place concrete; slab-on-grade for the new terminal; and 10 exterior architectural columns––each 56-feet tall and erected at a 14-degree angle.

May 30, 2012

Pringle Brandon in discussions to join forces with Perkins+Will

The London offices would be known as Pringle Brandon Perkins+Will.

May 30, 2012

Boral Bricks announces winners of “Live.Work.Learn” student architecture contest

Eun Grace Ko, a student at the Ryerson University in Toronto, Canada, named winner of annual contest.

May 30, 2012

Hill International to manage construction of Al Risafa Stadium in Iraq

The three-year contract has an estimated value to Hill of approximately $3.3 million.

Tim Gregorski | May 30, 2012

BIMx the first 3D AEC app to utilize retina display

Graphisoft recently announced that the BIMx 1.2.455 update for iPhone/iPad app provides native…
May 29, 2012

Torrance Memorial Medical Center’s pediatric burn patients create their version of new Patient Tower using Legos

McCarthy workers joined the patients, donning construction gear and hard hats, to help with their building efforts.

May 29, 2012

Reconstruction Awards Entry Information

Download a PDF of the Entry Information at the bottom of this page.

May 29, 2012

AIA expands Documents-On-Demand service??

Six new documents added, DOD offers nearly 100 contract documents.
 

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