Ashland Center Banks on Sustainability
Ashland Center, an office building with over 20,000sf in the prestigious Third Street Historic District of Geneva, IL, is proud to be recognized as the newest IREM® Certified Sustainable Property. The building, first a grocery store in 1960 and then a community bank in 1969, was purchased by Ashland Ventures in 2014 and underwent a major renovation. The rich history of the property is still alive in the building with the interior vaults and doors and the teller drive-through window intact. Even...
Vertical House in Dallas Wins National Steel Building Design Award
Chicago, IL – A five-story residence in Dallas has earned national recognition in the 2016 Innovative Design in Engineering and Architecture with Structural Steel awards program (IDEAS2). In honor of this achievement, members of the project team will be presented with awards from the American Institute of Steel Construction (AISC) on Thursday, October 13. Located on one of the highest sites in the city, the vertical volume of the five-story house rises 58 ft above the surrounding landscape an...
FAA Dedicates New Traffic Control Tower at San Francisco International Airport
SAN FRANCISCO – FAA Administrator Michael Huerta joined local officials today in dedicating the new, environmentally friendly airport traffic control tower at San Francisco International Airport (SFO). Rising up in a graceful flare, the new tower is 221 feet tall. The 650 square-foot controller work area gives air traffic controllers unobstructed 235-degree views of SFO’s runways and taxiways. Under a unique partnership, the FAA and SFO shared the cost of the project. The FAA paid for th...
Strong 2016 Housing Starts Increase Demand for Superior Walls Precast Foundations
New Holland, PA - A record-setting year of double-digit growth at Superior Walls serves as an indicator that the robust housing market will continue to expand in 2017. Led by unprecedented demand for precast concrete foundation systems in markets throughout Michigan and New Jersey, the company saw escalating sales system-wide in 2016. "There are distinct pockets of new home construction --- such as in the Midwest, New Jersey and even the Pittsburgh area --- where our business is going gangbuste...
Autodesk Opens New BUILD Space for the Future of Making
Autodesk has been at the forefront of the design world for more than 30 years. As we evolve beyond our deep design roots to making, the space and means to innovate are central. So today Autodesk is excited to announce the opening of its Boston-based Autodesk Building, Innovation, Learning and Design (BUILD) Space, a unique industrial workshop and innovation studio focused on the future of making things in the built environment – the places we live in, the buildings we work in, and the infras...
Delos and Structure Tone Partner to Drive Wellness Real Estate Through Construction Practices
New York, New York – Delos™, a wellness real estate and technology firm, today announced a strategic alliance with preeminent full-service construction services provider Structure Tone to accelerate integration of health and well-being in the built environment. The partnership will advance Delos’ mission to transform indoor environments into spaces that help nurture, sustain and promote human health and well-being through Structure Tone’s global network of construction management professionals...
Thornton Tomasetti’s Sustainability Practice Helps Zurich Insurance’s New North American Headquarters Achieve LEED Platinum Certification
Thornton Tomasetti, the international engineering firm, announces that Zurich Insurance Group’s new North American headquarters, a 784,000-square-foot, 11-story office building outside of Chicago, has achieved U.S. Green Building Council® LEED Platinum® certification. Working closely with architects Goettsch Partners and developer Clayco, Thornton Tomasetti served as the sustainability consultant for the project, which is the largest LEED Platinum Core and Shell v2009 project in the U.S. and...
Advanced Drainage Systems Hosts Ceremonial Event to Mark Construction of New Harrisonville Missouri Manufacturing Facility
HILLIARD, Ohio - Advanced Drainage Systems, Inc. (“ADS”) (NYSE:WMS), a leading global manufacturer of water management solutions, today hosted community leaders, elected officials and prospective employees at the site of its in-construction new manufacturing facility in Harrisonville, Missouri. This will be the Company’s 62nd manufacturing plant, and its first in Missouri. The event featured remarks from ADS CEO Joe Chlapaty, U.S. Rep. Vicky Hartzler (R-MO), State Senator Ed Emery (R-Lam...
U.S. Embassy to Restore Iconic Nepal UNESCO-Site Structure
KATHMANDU – A 100-year-old palace and one of the most Nepal’s iconic heritage buildings, which was heavily damaged by a M-7.8 earthquake that destroyed scores of history and killed hundreds at a UNESCO World Heritage site here in 2015, is set to be repaired and structurally strengthened, the U.S. Ambassadors Fund for Cultural Preservation announced Friday. The structural and architectural repairs and strengthening will be done by the technical nonprofit engineering exper...
Updated Renderings of 750-Foot Wolf Point East Tower Break Cover
As the second phase of the three-skyscraper Wolf Point project races towards an anticipated start date in early 2017, more details regarding the riverfront luxury apartment tower known as Wolf Point East have emerged. A recent story by Crain’s Chicago Real Estate Daily has confirmed the previously reported height figure of 66 stories and 750 feet. If that wasn’t enough, the report included two updated images of the upcoming tower. Designed Connecticut-based architect Pelli Clarke Pelli, the new...
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February Issue 2026
