RINKER MATERIALS™, AIAS and a Single MOM Aim to Make Owning a Home No Pipe Dream
Las Vegas – With the prevalence of homelessness and overpopulation across the country, Rinker Materials™ and the American Institute of Architecture Students (AIAS ) joined forces to make affordable, high-quality housing a reality through the vision of architectural student Sandra D. Guillen. A native of La Paz, Bolivia and the single mother of a 12-year-old son, Guillen tapped personal experiences to win the Rinker Materials/AIAS Pipe Dream tiny home design contest. Based on her design, the firs...
Ware Malcomb Announces Construction is Complete on Yale 25 Station Apartments
DENVER – Ware Malcomb, an award-winning international design firm, today announced construction is complete on the new Yale Station apartments located at 5121 East Yale Avenue in Denver. Ware Malcomb provided civil engineering services for the project. Yale Station is a five-story, transit-oriented senior living apartment complex ideally located in the heart of Denver close to restaurants, shopping and transportation. The project totals 186,500 square feet including the lobby and underground...
Healthy Home Builder Duo Pioneers Construction Best Practices
HORSESHOE BAY, Texas- Home builders Rusty and Jen Stout are doings things differently with a mission to pioneer home building best practices that put people's health first. The husband & wife team recently launched JS2 Partners Custom Builders to craft homes using chemical free materials, low and no VOC components and integrated building science designs that promote health and well-being for their homeowner clients across the U.S. "Americans spend on average 90% of their time living and worki...
Kuvella Modular Designs and Z Modular Announce Partnership to Expand Delivery of Modular Design and Construction
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. and BIRMINGHAM, Ala. - Kuvella Modular Designs, a leader in sustainable modular construction, and Z Modular, a division of Zekelman industries and leader in modular steel construction, today announced an alliance between the two companies to streamline the modular construction process and broaden availability of their products throughout North America. Z Modular's signature product, the Vectorbloc, provides extremely tight tolerances and ensures even stacking of modules. It'...
New Method To Determine How Safe Buildings Are After An Earthquake
More information: Yves Reuland et al. A model-based data-interpretation framework for post-earthquake building assessment with scarce measurement data, Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering (2018). DOI: 10.1016/j.soildyn.2018.10.008 Measurement-supported performance assessment of earthquake-damaged concrete and masonry structures. Infoscience. DOI: 10.5075/epfl-thesis-8113 Quantitative data for fast decisions The recordings are then processed to separate out signals resulting from...
Cintec Technology Aids in Restoration of Award-Winning 12th Century Castle
CINTEC International, a world leader in the field of structural masonry retrofit strengthening, repair, and preservation, announces that its patented anchors were used in the restoration of Astley Castle in Warwickshire. Following its renovations, Astley Castle was awarded the prestigious Riba Stirling Prize for Architecture. Cintec teamed up with architects and engineers from Mann Williams and Newport-based Protectahome to restore the castle. Cintec assisted Protectahome with the first phase...
Video: Chicago Union Station Renovation Time-Lapse
Sunlight is shining on the Great Hall at Chicago Union Station once again! Teams completed a major restoration of the 219-foot-long skylight that is at the center of the train station and EarthCam documented the entire process. With EarthCam's 4K time-lapse movie, see progress from October 2017 to December 2018 from several unique perspectives, from inside the Great Hall to an aerial exterior view above the iconic building.
Boulder Valley School District Hosts Grand Opening for New Transportation Center
On January 25, the Boulder Valley School District (BVSD) will celebrate the opening of its new Transportation Center, the first of three major projects to support educational opportunities in the 31,000-student district, with a ribbon-cutting ceremony. The $15.3 million transportation facility is the result of a master planning effort that started in 2015. The grand opening and ribbon-cutting is set for 12:30 p.m. on January 25, 2019. Located on a 9-acre site in eastern Boulder, the 40,000-sq...
Chubb Leads the Way in Bermuda for Green-Building Certification
HAMILTON, Bermuda - The Chubb Building on Woodbourne Avenue is the first in Bermuda to be twice recertified as LEED® Gold by the U.S. Green Building Council. LEED, or Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design, is a green building certification program that recognizes best-in-class building strategies and practices. The Chubb building first received LEED® Gold certification under the Existing Buildings: Operations and Maintenance rating system in 2011. In 2017, the building was recerti...
Ashley Capital Announces Construction of Second Building at Enterprise Business Park
RACINE COUNTY, Wis. - Ashley Capital is pleased to announce the construction of a new 438,000 square foot cross-dock, speculative, industrial building. Located at 11201 Enterprise Way, Sturtevant, Wisconsin, it is the second building to be constructed at Enterprise Business Park. John Sharpe and Tom Boyle of Lee & Associates and Terry McMahon and Cody Ziegler of Cushman & Wakefield |Boerke are exclusive marketing agents for the property. Gary Rosecrans, Vice President of Ashley Capital, share...
Stormwater Interview with Robert Page, P.E., Vice President, HNTB
TriMet’s Banfield Type 1 Substation Replacement Project
February Issue 2026
