Finnish Broadcasting Company: Why Helsinki Doesn’t Extend Upwards?
Extensions to existing buildings are beginning to rise above the urban and industrial areas of Helsinki’s currently rather horizontal skyline. As The Finnish Broadcasting Company YLE reports, the number of extensions upward is still quite small – yet there is growing interest in the air. The demand for housing in urban areas continues to grow globally. Today more than half of the world’s population is living in the cities, according to the UN’s The World’s Cities in 2016 report. With limit...
New Trimble Technology Lab Gift to UMass Amherst Expands Training and Research for Building Design and Fabrication
SUNNYVALE, Calif. and AMHERST, Mass. — A significant in-kind gift from Trimble (NASDAQ: TRMB) will expand the University of Massachusetts Amherst's leadership in training and research in 3D building design, digital fabrication and the sustainable built environment. Partnering with Trimble allows UMass Amherst to more fully integrate across its curricula the technological tools that are rapidly transforming how building and living environments are designed and constructed. The gift will establ...
New Revision of AISC Structural Steel Buildings Specification Available for Free Downloading
(Chicago, IL) – The 2016 version of the AISC standard, Specification for Structural Steel Buildings (ANSI/AISC 360-16), is now available for free downloading at www.aisc.org/2016spec. The 2016 Specification supersedes the 2010 version (ANSI/AISC 360-10). It has been approved by the AISC Committee on Specifications and is ANSI-accredited and forms the basis for the 15th Edition Steel Construction Manual, which is scheduled to be published in the third quarter of 2017. “The 2016 AISC Specifi...
Delos and HKS Announce Partnership to Explore the Effects of the Built Environment on Health and Wellness
New York, New York – Delos™, a wellness real estate and technology firm, announced a partnership with HKS, an international design firm, to study and measure the impact of interventions in the built environment on human health and well-being. The new HKS and Delos partnership will focus on applied research and will build on the strengths of each company to target peer-reviewed open sourced publications, and advance Delos’ mission to transform buildings into healthier spaces. As part of t...
Procurement Research Project Aims to Reduce Climate Impact from Infrastructure Projects
Infrastructure projects account for a large portion of the world’s CO2 emissions. One way to reduce the carbon impact is to implement sustainability requirements in the procurement process. The research project Implementation of Procurement Requirements for Sustainable Collaboration in Infrastructure (Impres) aims to study how this can be done most effectively. “It is easy to formulate and state high requirements in the procurement phase, but there is a problem that they are not always fulfill...
MCI Technology Preserving War - Destructed Monument and Symbol of Croatian Independence!
After being used for construction and rehabilitation of the most famous structures in the world such as the Pentagon, Empire State Building and Burj Khalifa, MCI® technology will be used to preserve Vukovar’s water tower hit more than 600 times during the siege of the city. Cortec® Corporation signed the donation agreement with the Mayor of Croatian City of Vukovar. The company donated funds for reconstruction of Vukovar water tower that was almost destroyed in 90’s during Croatian War of Ind...
Renovation of Buildings Considers Climate, Improves Economy and Creates Value for Citizens
There is brand new lighting in Odense’s sports centre. The new lighting system is made with LED and can create dynamic lighting settings at the sporting events that are transmitted on television. At the same time, the new solution basically requires no maintenance for the next 10 years and the cost of deploying and upgrading its lighting to LED is paid solely by means of energy saving. "The sports centre is a facility, which is right at the top of what is currently available, and this both Od...
Avenida Houston to Become Downtown’s Town Square
Houston, TX (January 4, 2017) - A narrative of nature and industry underscores the design of Avenida Houston, the new four-acre plaza adjacent to the freshly renovated George R. Brown Convention Center downtown. The lead visionaries of this vast urban square were the architects at WHR (now EYP) and the planners and landscape architects at SWA. SWA is also the homegrown creative team responsible for the reemergence of Houston’s newest public common, Buffalo Bayou Park. Houston’s formidable le...
Queens Library Leadership, Stalco Construction, Marpillero Pollak Architects and Local and National Political Leaders Open New $32.4 Million Elmhurst Community Library
ELMHURST, N.Y. _ Queens Library President and CEO Dennis M. Walcott, Queens Borough President Melinda Katz, New York City Council Member Daniel Dromm, New York City Council Majority Leader Jimmy Van Bramer, U.S. Congresswoman Grace Meng, NYS Assembly Member Francisco P. Moya, Stalco Construction President Alan Nahmias, NYC Department of Design and Construction Commissioner Feniosky Peña-Mora and local residents today celebrated the grand opening of Elmhurst Community Library with a ribbon cuttin...
Modine Offers Latest in Classroom HVAC Noise Reduction
Racine, Wis. – Modine Manufacturing Company (NYSE: MOD), a leader in technology in the HVAC industry, has introduced the STUDY Package, an upgrade to their ClassMate vertical unit which achieves the highest standard for noise reduction in its class. With a redesigned cabinet to reduce air flow velocity, and a redesigned baffle for improved air flow path, the ClassMate with STUDY Package was developed to meet background noise pre-requisites for LEED-designed facilities. “We conducted extensive...
Stormwater Interview with Robert Page, P.E., Vice President, HNTB
Santa Barbara County North Branch Jail Expansion
February Issue 2026
