At RISA Technologies, Amber Freund, Vice President, Operations, is seeing slow and steady growth since coming out of the recession. From that time, she says, a lot of small engineering startups have popped up, and most have been turning to RISA for their structural analysis needs. RISA has responded, in part, by adding a powerful time history analysis capability to the latest version of RISA-3D. …
The southwest corner formed by Leonard Street and Church Street in New York City is ground to the 56 Leonard project, a new and unique 57-story residential development comprising 480,000 square feet of gross area.
The current economic, cultural and social context of the real estate market in New York City requires serving a continuously changing and diverse group of buyers and investors from all over the world, which in turn has generated a very strong demand for excellence in analysis, design and construction of luxury residential buildings. …
111 Main’s innovative “balanced” structural system supports the 25-story high-rise above an adjacent performing arts center.
In Salt Lake City, Utah, at 387 feet above grade, 111 Main has become the newest and one of the tallest additions to the skyline. Currently under construction in the heart of the downtown City Center neighborhood, the roof hat-truss structure of the 25-story, 501,455 square foot Class A office tower was topped off this past January, with its loads successfully transferred from a temporary shoring support system to the permanent structural system during a one-day 12-hour period. …
“On a clear day, you can see forever,” the old song says. From the windows of Saudi Arabia’s Jeddah Tower, eventually more than 1000 meters (3,281 feet) above the port city for which it is named (Figure 1), the old song will no longer be poetic hyperbole. The spectacular views are easy to imagine. …
The 181 Fremont Tower, located in downtown San Francisco adjacent to the new Transbay Transit Center, will arguably be the most resilient tall building on the West Coast of the United States when completed in 2017. At that time, it will be the second tallest building in San Francisco (802 feet). The tower was designed to exceed CBC-mandated (California Building Code) earthquake performance objectives for new tall buildings by following a “resilience-based-design” approach. …
475 Fifth Avenue is an existing building near Bryant Park at the intersection of 41st Street and Fifth Avenue in New York City. The 24-story, 1920s era building recently underwent a major renovation that required structural engineering designs to support the building’s architectural elements and to accommodate changes to the mechanical system. …
Companies involved in tall building construction are continually offering new products and services to meet their customers’ demand.
“Business is great!” says Kord Wissmann, President of Geopier Foundation Company. “We continue to grow our resources to keep up with market demand and focus attention on clients. …
In the small Northwest Louisiana town of Natchitoches, there now stands a striking building to house both the Louisiana Sports Hall of Fame and the Northwest Louisiana History Museum. (Figures 1 and 2) The Hall of Fame, created in 1958, honors athletes who are either from Louisiana or have played for teams based there. Its roll of inductees includes football greats such as Y.A Tittle, Terry Bradshaw, and Archie Manning, basketball stars such as Pete Maravich and Shaquille O’Neill, and many other standouts from the sports world. …
The foundation of Justice in the County of Lancaster, Pennsylvania is once again stable and poised for another century of oversight. Justitia (the Statue of Lady Justice) is re-perched on a new structural framework atop the County courthouse dome.
The 1850s-era wood-framed dome structure suffered the primary long-term effect of water intrusion: rot. A broad and vague term, “rot” defines merely a symptom, but does not convey any degree of extent. Atop the courthouse dome, the rot can only be described as severe. …
The $136 million 420,000-square-foot San Marcos High School opened in January 2014 in a phased reconstruction of the entire project site. This project transformed the existing 1,800 student capacity single-story complex to a 3,000 student capacity state of the art multi-story high school complex, more than doubling the size of the old school. …