The 2020 Forge Prize Presentations
Relive the excitement of the 2020 Forge Prize virtual presentations. Follow along as our finalists present three outstanding projects for a chance to become the 2020 Forge Prize winner.
Kenaitze Indian Tribe’s Newest Education Center Formally Breaks Ground
Stantec-designed facility to consolidate Tribe’s educational programs while paying homage to culture Kenai, AK - The Kenaitze Indian Tribe recently broke ground on its newest education center in Kenai, Alaska. The center focuses on the Tribal Council’s commitment to building a tribally owned, culturally appropriate education campus that consolidates core educational components and programs in one state-of-the-art, central facility. Design of the educational center is being led by a local...
Hybrid City competition results offer solutions to improve both sustainability and efficiency
Metsä Wood’s Hybrid City Challenge called for ways to make construction more sustainable, while maintaining efficiency using current building methods. The answer lies in hybrid construction: modular construction practically combining wood and other construction materials. The Hybrid City Challenge gathered some 40 ideas from 22 countries. The winner of the first prize of €10,000 was a design called “WHAT IF… New York´s SEAGRAM Building was a HYBRID building”, by Colombian architect Jose Gust...
New Acoustics at La Guardia Airport’s Terminal B: Designed to take the stress out of flying
New York; June 24, 2020: Cerami is pleased to announce its role in steering the acoustic design for the new Terminal B at La Guardia Airport. The $4 billion project involved replacing dated stainless-steel columns and low ceilings with an airy, art-filled terminal dotted with trees, natural light and soaring ceilings up to 60 feet in height. La Guardia Terminal B, re-imagined by LaGuardia Gateway Partners, including design by HOK, is now a beacon of light in 21st century development and the over...
Video: High-Accuracy 3D Modeling Inside the Great Pyramid
Hitachi Systems and JEPICO partnered to capture and document the insides of the Great Pyramid of Giza in Egypt.
MU celebrates NextGen Precision Health Institute construction milestone with virtual topping off ceremony
COLUMBIA, Mo. — The University of Missouri hosted a virtual topping off ceremony to celebrate the last steel beam being placed atop the NextGen Precision Health Institute today. As the cornerstone of the statewide NextGen Precision Health Initiative, the institute will be the home of translational research and life-saving precision health solutions that will benefit Missourians and the world. “As our communities continue to face unprecedented uncertainty and challenges during the COVID-19 pan...
America’s Structural Steel Industry Remains a Success Story
CHICAGO - Domestic steel mills produced more than 6 million tons of structural steel last year, according to the American Iron and Steel Institute. That structural steel supply chain has remained robust, active, and ready to build tomorrow’s landmark structures throughout the last few months. Confusion and uncertainty regarding the availability of structural steel boil down to the generic nature of the word “steel.” When people hear that mills supplying the automotive industry are shutting...
Purdue Researchers Seek to Create Smart Concrete
Researchers at Purdue University are working to create “intelligent concrete” that would help cut down on road repairs and traffic delays; an effort based on information gleaned from a pilot project conducted jointly with the Indiana Department of Transportation. [Above photo by the Indiana DOT.] Lana Lu, an associate professor at the university’s Lyles School of Civil Engineering, and a team of researchers worked with the Indiana DOT in 2019 to embed sensors into three Indiana highways to...
DOE Announces $11 Billion in Energy Cost-Savings from Better Buildings Initiative Partners
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has announced nearly $11 billion in energy-cost savings by more than 950 public and private sector organizations in DOE’s Better Buildings Initiative. To date, partners have saved nearly 1.8 quadrillion British thermal units of energy, which is equivalent to the electricity consumption of 27 million homes in America over one year. “Under the Trump Administration, we are turning efficient energy and buildings technologies into tangible cos...
AISI Publishes Cold-Formed Steel Framing Research Report to Support Development of New Energy Standard
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The American Iron and Steel Institute (AISI) has published a new cold-formed steel framing research report, “AISI RP20-2: Development of a U-Factor Calculation Procedure for Cold-Formed Steel C-Shaped Clear Wall Assemblies.” The report is available for free download at http://www.buildusingsteel.org. The research was undertaken to support a new energy standard being developed by AISI’s Committee on Framing Standards. In addition to its work in research and development, AISI...
Stormwater Interview with Robert Page, P.E., Vice President, HNTB
TriMet’s Banfield Type 1 Substation Replacement Project
February Issue 2026
