An audit released by New York State Comptroller Thomas P. DiNapoli found NYC Department of Buildings (DOB) needs to be more aggressive in its oversight, inspections, and use of enforcement powers to ensure violations are corrected, in helping prevent construction-related accidents, injuries and fatalities.
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A team from University of Alabama has won the Precast/Prestressed Concrete Institute (PCI)’s 2022 Engineering Design Competition, also known as the Big Beam competition.
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Professor Marianne Cusato from Notre Dame University School of Architecture, who is leading the effort to revitalize Indiana’s South Bend Farmers Market district, has identified thoughtless urban planning to be the “disease” responsible for climate change, calling for a shift in the discipline.
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Resinous flooring, also known as fluid-applied or poured-in-place flooring, is common in industrial and commercial environments. Its properties allow for a smooth, non-porous, easily cleanable surface that cannot be achieved with any materials that have grout or seams.
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Adolfson & Peterson Construction (AP) utilized indigenous Texan Lueders limestone to reduce transport-related emissions in constructing the 9,906 m2 (106,622-sf) headquarters of The Professional Golfers' Association (PGA) of America in Frisco, Texas.
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The Beverly Willis Architecture Foundation (BWAF) has received $100,000 from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) for a new podcast series, called New Angle: Voice, featuring some of America’s most influential women from architecture and design history.
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One of the 25 largest construction companies in the U.S., Granite Construction Inc. has joined the National Asphalt Pavement Association (NAPA)’s The Road Forward initiative to build net-zero asphalt pavements by 2050.
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While designing Mya, a mixed-use development in Salt Lake City, Utah, architect EskewDumezRipple had to adapt and integrate three different facades serving different purposes to respond to an odd-shaped lot.
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While modern flooring systems predominantly feature the durable reinforced concrete floor slab, previously there had been a number of different materials such as brick, terracotta, and a group of materials and methods known as alternative concrete systems, which are still prevalent in a lot of built structures.
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Woodland Park Zoo Seattle, Washington, has found a solution to heat and humidity loss in the Komodo Dragons enclosure with the use of special energy-efficient daylights, without having to build a new enclosure.
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