Cortec Corporation Celebrates 40 Years of Fighting Corrosion!
“There are three things inevitable in life: death, taxes and corrosion. So, we are in the right business!” Such is a common saying of Boris Miksic, Founder and CEO of Cortec Corporation, a company that has become the global leader in innovative VpCI ® and MCI® Technology and is now branching out into biotechnology. This year marks the 40th Anniversary of what began as a fledgling company in October 1977. Cortec® has since grown to make a global impact on the corrosion industry, operating nine...
Temporary Wooden Market Hall Becomes Eye-Catching Landmark
The distinctive new building in Stockholm’s Östermalm is a temporary market hall that was built as a temporary space while the old market hall is being renovated. What nobody expected was the tremendous popularity of this “wooden box”, which ended up winning Sweden’s most prestigious design award. The old market hall, built in 1886, in Stockholm’s Östermalm district is known for the prestige its history carries among its committed customers. In 2012, this well-established rendezvous point in...
‘New History' the Plan for 2nd Biennial
Organizers for this year's Chicago Architecture Biennial are asking 16 young architects to redesign Tribune Tower, like Helmut Jahn did in this drawing for a 1980 contest. ( Helmut Jahn rendering ) Blair Kamin Cityscapes With the newspaper business booming 95 years ago, the Chicago Tribune immodestly announced an international design contest for “the most beautiful and distinctive office building in the world.” Its bragging proved justified. The 1922 contest drew 263 entries from 23 countrie...
Los Alamos Project Receives Best Building Award
The Associated General Contractors of America New Mexico Chapter has named the Los Alamos National Laboratory TA-63 Transuranic (TRU) Waste Facility one of the best buildings of 2017. Classified as a Hazard Category-2 multi-building nuclear facility, it took top honors in the environmental category...
AISI Standards Council Small Project Fellowship Program Announces Winning Research Proposals
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The American Iron and Steel Institute (AISI) Standards Council has selected five winning research proposals for its 2017 Small Project Fellowship Program, it was announced today. AISI’s Small Project Fellowship Program was launched in 2014 to identify and provide funding for research projects that will significantly impact the reliability, performance, and cost-competitiveness of cold-formed steel (CFS) framing products in a variety of end-use applications. The Small P...
New Book Examines Work of MacKay-Lyons Sweetapple Architects
Coming April 18, “The Work of MacKay-Lyons Sweetapple Architects” captures the practical yet beautiful work of one of the leading architectural firms in the world The “modern vernacular” work of MacKay-Lyons Sweetapple Architects—winners of more than 100 awards, including the 2015 Gold Medal from the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada—is characterized by an ethically driven desire to use minimal materials to maximum effect, and by its deep engagement with the landscape and climate of ma...
Zaha Hadid Architects Releases Images of Tower with the World's Tallest Atrium
Zaha Hadid Architects has released new images of Leeza SOHO, their mixed-use design in Beijing's Lize Financial Business District. The project is notable for its 190-meter tall atrium, which rises the full height of the building, uniting two twisting sections which contain 172,800 square meters of office and residential space. At the base of the tower, a new transit hub straddles a subway tunnel that is currently under construction. Save this picture! © MIRThe form of the design i...
Wood Construction Battles Climate Change through Carbon Storage
The building sector contributes up to 30% of global annual greenhouse gas emissions, thus it plays a vital role in mitigating climate change. Building with wood is a part of the solution, as wood is the only construction material that stores carbon. Wood products, like Kerto® LVL, have a surprisingly small carbon footprint during their lifecycle and can be used in practically all buildings to store carbon. One of the most important ways to mitigate climate change is to find new ways of capturi...
Skanska Constructs New Building for Offices and Retail in Stockholm, Sweden, for SEK 1.2 billion
Skanska has signed a contract with AMF Fastigheter to construct a new building for commercial and office premises in central Stockholm, Sweden. The contract is worth about SEK 1.2 billion, which will be included in order bookings for Skanska Sweden for the first quarter of 2017. The project includes demolition of the existing building, ground improvement and new construction of twelve floors totaling 44,000 square meters. The new building will meet high sustainability standards and aiming f...
Nashville International Airport Begins Billion-Dollar Renovation with Atkins-Designed Parking Garage
Atkins joined airport staff, elected officials and other stakeholders at Nashville International Airport (BNA) to break ground recently on a terminal area parking garage. Designed by Atkins, the garage is the first project initiated under the Metropolitan Nashville Airport Authority’s (MNAA) comprehensive renovation and expansion plan, BNA Vision. "Breaking ground heralds the first phase of construction of the BNA Vision, our dynamic plan to meet the needs of our rapidly growing...
Stormwater Interview with Robert Page, P.E., Vice President, HNTB
Santa Barbara County North Branch Jail Expansion
February Issue 2026
