Sentences with phrase «construction of tall buildings»

One of the most vocal advocates for the use of CLT in the construction of tall buildings is British Columbia architect Michael Green, who starred a few years ago in a series of wood - building videos sponsored by the Washington Forest Protection Association, the Washington Contract Loggers Association, the Family Forest Foundation and the Washington Farm Forestry Association.

For example, a student's questions about the construction of tall buildings quickly transformed the block area in our classroom into a place to investigate and test the children's theories about building skyscrapers.

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City and park officials cleared the way Wednesday for construction of what would be the nation's tallest building.

Construction officially began this month on the Arlington Downs project, a 25 - acre, $ 250 million mixed - use redevelopment plan slated to include what would become the tallest building in the village of Arlington Heights.

[139] The Hope City project is expected to be completed in 2016 and is estimated to cost $ US 10 billion in construction; [139] and one of its towers will become Africa's tallest building.

EDC projects construction would cost $ 250 million and last 18 months, after which the building would be the third - tallest on the block, behind Zeckendorf Towers and the Consolidated Edison Building, and open for business sometime in the middle building would be the third - tallest on the block, behind Zeckendorf Towers and the Consolidated Edison Building, and open for business sometime in the middle Building, and open for business sometime in the middle of 2020.

«Until these kinds of innovative products or design methods or construction methods are in the code, they're not likely to be widespread,» says Eric Karsh, a principal engineer at Equilibrium Consulting in Vancouver, who has worked on other tall wooden buildings.

«CLT and mass timber more generally are part of a massive trend in architecture and construction, but the seismic performance of tall buildings made from these kinds of wood is uncharted waters.»

KIPAC is leading the design and construction of the telescope's six - foot - tall, three - billion pixel camera — the biggest digital camera ever built.

As television cameras rolled, a crowd of more than 1,000 people celebrated on the day when the last beam — signed by more than 12,000 construction workers, Sears employees, and other Chicagoans — was hoisted to the top of the world's tallest building.

Other high - profile projects include the construction of three firsts: The Panamera, the first Waldorf Astoria hotel in Latin America (set to open in June 2012); the Trump Ocean Club, the region's tallest building, which opened last summer; and Frank Gehry's first Latin American design, the BioMuseo, a natural history museum scheduled to open in early 2013.

In a single enormous phase of construction, they built a huge, 10 - foot tall, platform and on top of that, a series of pyramids.

John Marin's watercolor series of Manhattan buildings included abstract studies of the Woolworth Building under construction, before it became the world's tallest building Building under construction, before it became the world's tallest building building in 1913.

Cross-laminated timber and other innovative wood products have enabled the construction of tall wood buildings over 10 stories, which are starting to be deployed in several U.S. cities.

Architect Michael Green has been at the forefront of the new tall wood construction, doing great research and great buildings.

Thornton Tomasetti, the company responsible for engineering six of the world's 10 tallest buildings in design or under construction, has also joined the effort.

New York is home to a growing passive house movement, and will soon be home to the world's tallest high - rise passive house, a 26 - story dormitory building currently under construction as part of the new Cornell Tech campus on Roosevelt Island.

Shortly after it being reported that construction would start in early 2010 the South Australian Government announced that it has refused to vary major development approval of the wind farm (Trust Power wanted to build taller towers, 110m high).

But those gains were meager compared with the spectacular construction projects that oil riches spurred in glittering Middle Eastern cities, including the world's tallest building in Dubai and plans for branches of the Louvre and Guggenheim museums in Abu Dhabi.

Its owner, Forest City Ratner, claimed that they had «cracked the code» of tall modular construction, and that it would build B2 faster, in 18 months, and cheaper.

From wind - dispersing construction to on - site power generation and energy efficiency, the tallest structures under development today harness an assortment of technologies that can boost the performance of more conventionally sized buildings.

«Though the speed of tall building construction may cycle with the markets, the overall trend is for the number of high rises to increase over the next decade and to continue to reach skyward as we eventually emerge from recession.

Twenty years ago, the world's future tallest buildings would have been predicted to be in North America, of steel construction and composed of office space.

Despite the economic downturn, The Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH) says 2008 was the single most successful year for tall building construction in history, both in terms of skyscrapers built and average height achieTall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH) says 2008 was the single most successful year for tall building construction in history, both in terms of skyscrapers built and average height achietall building construction in history, both in terms of skyscrapers built and average height achieved.