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NAHB Announces Pillars
of the Industry Award Winners
Source:
www.NAHB.org
Prestigious National
Awards Honor Excellence in Multifamily
April 7, 2004 - The
National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) recently announced the
winners of its 2004 Pillars of the Industry Awards. The Pillars Awards,
considered the most prestigious national awards in the industry, honor
excellence in multifamily and are looked to by both the industry and the
media as a showcase of innovation and future trends.
"The quality
represented by this year’s Pillars Awards winners cannot be overstated,"
said J. Ronald Terwilliger, CEO of Trammell Crow Residential and
Chairman of NAHB’s Multifamily Leadership Board. "The days of the
‘boring box’ apartment building are over-they are history. Today’s
apartment and condo communities are extraordinarily beautiful and
innovative and these award winners, in particular, are setting a new
standard for apartment living."
Winners were named
in 29 categories, recognizing "the best of the best" in multifamily
design, development, marketing, and management.
Southern California
Housing Development Corporation won top honors as Freddie Mac’s
Multifamily Development Firm of the Year. Gables Residential was named
Property Management Company of the Year, and the Epicenter, an eclectic
apartment development in the center of an artist’s neighborhood in
Seattle, won Best Multifamily Community of the Year, an award selected
from among all the winning entries in the builder award categories.
Developed by SP Multifamily, LLC, The Epicenter also won Best Mixed-Use
Community of the Year.
For a complete list
of the winners,
see the full
story.
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Modular Steel Bridge Speeds Reopening of I-95 Southbound Lanes in
Connecticut
Source:
AISC.org
A modular steel bridge assembled and erected in three
days will get traffic moving again on a critical section of congested
Interstate 95 here. Thursday evening, March 25, a fuel truck crashed,
spilling home heating oil onto a southbound overpass. The oil soon
exploded and burned, causing the collapse of the bridge.
Conn Abnee, Executive Director of the National Steel Bridge
Alliance in Chicago, praised the fast action of NSBA member Acrow
Corporation (Carlstadt, NJ), which makes the modular steel bridges.
“This is a great example of the versatility of steel for stepping into
emergency bridge situations of all kinds,” said Abnee.
On Friday morning, the day following the accident, Mark Joosten,
vice president of Acrow, visited the crash site and talked with
Connecticut officials about the company’s modular steel bridges. Within
a few hours he had an order for an 80-foot long three-lane vehicular
bridge. For more on this, including a time-line for the project, read
the full story. |
Ocean Villas Tunnel Form Project Case Study
Now Available on PCA Website
Source:
Constructiontechnologytoday.com
The Ocean Villas Apartment Project,
soon to be renamed Agua, in Long Beach, CA is the world's tallest tunnel
form building in a region of highest seismic risk. There are two
18-story towers, with 556 residential units with covering 723,000 sq ft
of living area, and 264,000 sq ft of parking in three subterranean
levels. With 21,000 sq ft per floor, it took 4
days on average to complete one level. According to the website of the
tunnelform contractor,
Highrise Concrete Systems, Inc., who also provided us with the
photo above, there is now an
Ocean Villas case study available at the PCA website.
Owner:
Genesis Real Estate Group, Inc.
Architect:
EDI Architecture, Inc.
Structural Engineer:
Englekirk Partners Consulting Structural
Engineers, Inc.,
General Contractor:
Summit Builders Construction Co.
Concrete Sub-Contractor: Highrise
Concrete Systems, Inc.
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39-Story Precast Paramount Building Case Study
Also Now Available on PCA Website
Source:
constructiontechnologytoday.com
The impressive structure in the photo
above, (courtesy of BauTech, Inc.)
is the 39-story Paramount Building at 3rd and Mission in San Francisco.
This is the tallest precast structure to have been built in a region of
highest seismic risk. The structure, built by Pankow Builders, Ltd.,
utilizes the Precast Hybrid Moment Resisting Fframe system developed
during the PRESSS testing, shares something in common with the Ocean
Villas project above, both used the BauGrid Welded Reinforcement Grid
system to accelerate construction and reduce rebar congestion.
According to the BauTech website, a
case study
is now available on the PCA website, or for more in-depth, technical
discussion about the project, you can read the
article by
structural engineer Robert Englekirk on the PCI website.
Owner: The Related Companies
General Contractor: Pankow Builders, Ltd.
Precast Concrete Sub-Contractor: Mid-state
Precast, LLC
Structural Engineer: Robert Englekirk
Consulting Structural Engineers, Inc.
Architects:
Kwan Henmi,
Architecture and Planning and Elkus/Manfredi Architects, Ltd.
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ASTM International and Sustainable Development
Source: ASTM.org
Keeping Pace with a New Global Market
by Dru Meadows
ASTM International’s five-year-old Subcommittee E06.71 on
Sustainability, part of
Committee E06 on
Performance of Buildings, is responding to a fast-growing market demand
for “green building” and “sustainable development.” This market interest
is voiced by building industry professionals, manufacturers, government
agencies, and customers. It is expressed in developed as well as
developing countries. The unique standards development forum offered by
ASTM International allows these often very different perspectives to
come together to develop standards that address the issues of
sustainability.
“Sustainability,” as defined in ASTM
E 2114, Terminology for
Sustainability Relative to the Performance of Buildings, is “the
maintenance of ecosystem components and functions for future
generations.” And “sustainable development,” as defined by that same
standard, is “development that meets the needs of the present without
compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.”
Sustainability has three primary considerations: environmental, economic
and social. Each of these considerations must be addressed in the
development of standards. For facts and figures on market demand and
ASTM International's response,
read the full story.
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2004 Outstanding Civil
Engineering Merit Finalists Announced
Source:
ASCE.org
ASCE has
chosen seven merit finalists for the 2004 Outstanding Civil Engineering
Achievement (OCEA) Award. Each of the seven merit finalists are
commendable examples of how civil engineering can improve the quality of
life for local residents, contribute to a community's economic success
and lift the spirits of an embattled nation. Established in 1960, the
prestigious national award recognizes civil engineering projects
selected on the basis of their contribution to the well-being of people
and communities, resourcefulness in planning and design challenges, and
innovations in materials and techniques. The OCEA winner will be
announced on Wednesday, May 12, at ASCE's fifth annual Outstanding
Projects and Leaders (OPAL) awards gala at the Sheraton Premier in
Tysons Corner, Va.
2004 OCEA Merit
Finalists
Repavement of Kabul-Kandahar Road
Restoration of the World Trade Center
PATH Station
Leonard P. Zakim Bunker Hill Bridge
The New Braddock Dam, Braddock,
Pennsylvania
William H. Natcher Bridge, Owensboro,
Kentucky
Emergency Bypass Water Tunnel, Waipio
Valley, Hilo, Hawaii
Integrated Water Transmission & Treatment
Project, Clark County, Nevada
For the complete story, including a
synopsis of each finalist, visit the
ASCE OCEA |
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