Video: How to Build a Wood Skyscraper
Mass timber has gone from novelty to trend. But how does it change the construction process? Is there a way to replace steel and concrete with wood? That’s the idea behind mass timber — a relatively new construction technique that’s making its way from Europe to the United States. In the above video, you can learn how mass timber changes the construction process. Vox’s Phil Edwards visited Ascent Milwaukee, the tallest mass timber building in the world, to see how it all comes together....
AISC Releases Buy Clean Guidance to Help Legislators Maximize Structural Steel’s Unmatched Sustainability
CHICAGO - Hot-rolled structural steel is the greenest structural material on the market, thanks to its unsurpassed recycled content and ability to be recycled into new steel, over and over again, with no loss of properties. It's an obvious choice for the Buy Clean movement, which advocates for environmental properties that encourage the use of products and materials with a smaller carbon footprint. But the industry is complex. That's why the American Institute of Steel Construction has rel...
A temporary wooden market hall gets a new life as a sports hall in Sweden’s largest reuse project
Östermalmshallen Padel is Sweden’s largest reuse project in the construction industry. A wooden building which had served as a temporary market hall in Östermalm in Stockholm was moved 500 kilometres southwest and converted into a padel hall by real estate company Wallenstam. This project is a great example of the suitability of Kerto® LVL elements for demounting and reuse in construction. When the grand Östermalmshallen market hall in Stockholm needed to be renovated in 2016, it was necessar...
Sydney’s new sky scrapper launches Australia’s largest automated car parking system
Lödige Industries delivers Australia’s first robotic car park system for “The Lennox” Sydney, Scherfede – Lödige Industries, a leading provider of automated parking technologies, has completed a fully autonomous car park for the new luxury high-rise "The Lennox" in Sydney’s Parramatta District. The system is the very first of its kind in the southern hemisphere using Lödige Industries robotic ‘CUBILE’ technology. The building's nine-level basement combines three levels of conventional p...
1st Hotel at Piarco Int’l Airport Breaks Ground, Investment/Design by NYC-based Urbahn
Developers and designers STAGES Group and Urbahn Architects, who are the founders of Prestige Hotels Limited, investor SEAF Caribbean SME Growth Fund, and Trinidad and Tobago officials broke the ground for the new, US$25 million, 154-room Four Points by Sheraton hotel and conference center at the International Airport Estates at the Piarco International AirportLeft to right: Hayden Newton, General Manager Airport Authority of Trinidad and Tobago; Christopher Alcazar, Chairman of the Airport Auth...
McKinsey launches Net Zero Built Environment Council to decarbonize the built world
Alliance of industry leaders to accelerate race to net zero 3rd November 2022: McKinsey has today announced the launch of a Net Zero Built Environment Council, a cross-sector coalition of industry stakeholders to collaboratively create new pathways to cut greenhouse gas emissions from buildings. The life cycle of buildings is responsible for approximately 40 percent of global CO₂ emissions, making the built environment among the highest GHG emitters, above electricity production, shi...
National Institute of Building Sciences Announces Upcoming Release of COBie v3.0
The release takes place as buildingSMART International begins development of its Asset Operations Handover project (WASHINGTON, DC, November 2, 2022) – The National Institute of Building Sciences (NIBS) Building Information Management Council (BIMC) is planning the upcoming release of COBie 3.0, as an update to the Construction to Operations Building information exchange (COBie 2.4) Specification. COBie 3.0 also will be published as an integral part of the upcoming version 4.0 of the Nat...
The New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center Achieves LEED Gold Certification
Convention Center officials celebrate the Center achieving LEED gold certification. Left to Right: Ernest N. Morial New Orleans Exhibition Hall Authority Commissioner Geri Baloney Broussard; Convention Center Vice President of Operations Adam J. Straight; Convention Center President Michael J. Sawaya, Convention Center Director of Sustainability and Corporate Social Responsibility, Linda Baynham, and Ernest N. Morial New Orleans Exhibition Hall Authority Chairman Jerry Reyes. First conv...
Milwaukee Building Owner Leverages SolarEdge Technology to Create 83ft Vertical Solar Array on High-Rise Office Building
Tenants of one of the largest office buildings in Shorewood, WI, can look forward to a reduction in their annual energy bills following the completion of an innovative 83ft vertical solar array 120-module, 54kW solar array is forecast to produce 58,000kWh annually – enough to power six homes for a year SolarEdge DC-Optimized technology chosen to overcome shading from neighboring buildings for maximum energy production, making the vertical solar array possible Tenants of one...
Transbay Study Group Makes Recommendations
CHICAGO - The American Institute of Steel Construction’s ad hoc task group on Transbay has wrapped up its work and made its recommendations to the AISC Committee on Specifications. The group was formed after cracks were discovered in steel members in the newly opened Transbay Transit Center in San Francisco. It’s expected the report will lead to a number of changes in future steel specifications. “The task group presented a holistic set of proposals dealing with fracture toughness, sharp disc...
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