
Dorobanti Tower is a 200 meter building contains a 5-star hotel, convention center, and luxury apartments. The architects who is stand behind this modern and absolutely stunning building design is Zaha Hadid Architects who design this tower located in Bucharest, Romania. Designed located in the center of Bucharest, the project comprises 34,000 square meters of a 5-star hotel (including restaurants and a convention center) and 35,000 square meters...

Arena Zagreb is a multi-purpose sports hall that has been designed by Croatian architectural and engineering firm UPI-2M. This architectural firm studio designed this Arena Zagreb, located in the southwestern part of Zagreb, Croatia. The elegant and modern design with exterior just like a shell covering the interior arena. Basic shape and structural element of this hall are pre-stressed prefabricated reinforced concrete columns with the height up...

Architects Barton Myers Associates have completed a new home in Montecito, California. Associate in Chargeof the architecture is Thomas Schneider. The Project Architect by Yianna Bouyioukou. Landscape is located in Rios Clementi Hale Studios. Structural Engineer designer is Norman J. Epstein. Engineering done by AGME Engineers, mechanical & plumbing; Smith Engineering Associates, electrical; Simpson Gumpertz & Heger Inc, envelope consultant;...

In 1935, H.F. Johnson Jr traveled to Brazil to search for a sustainable source of natural wax: the carnaúba palm tree. He fled in a Sikorsky-38 amphibious plane and traveled as far as 15,000-mile. Some sixty-three years later, his son Sam retraced that flight in a replica of the Carnaúba plane to complete a historic family journey. Fortaleza Hall commemorates the H.F. Johnson Jr flight and provides a permanent home for the historic replica aircraft...

A new 120 tonne crane, from overhead crane specialist Street Crane Company, is part of a major investment, exceeding one million pounds at Voith Paper Limited’s Manchester manufacturing plant. The new crane ensures efficient and safe loading and unloading of the grinding machine. This will grind and produce perfect geometry and balance in paper machine rollers of up to 115 tonnes. Street Crane has a long association with Voith Paper, having supplied...

Jerry Gillman a director of South American Development Corporation (SADC) announced that they have purchased Home Front Homes LLC, a Structural Insulated Panel manufacturer located in Englewood Florida. Home Front Homes has manufactured energy efficient environmentally friendly Structural Insulated Panel homes (SIPS) for over ten years. The Home Front Homes “building system” products have won many building and environmental awards including one...

Atkins officially celebrated one of the construction industry’s oldest customs, the structural ‘topping out’ of the 32-storey Iris Bay office and retail tower at Business Bay in Dubai. Aside from the distinctive architectural design of this unusually shaped commercial building, Iris Bay was an early opportunity for Atkins to explore the challenges of sustainable design in a hot climate and incorporates both passive and active environmental...
Dayton Superior Corporation (NASDAQ:DSUP), the leading North American provider of specialized products for the non-residential concrete construction market, has begun manufacturing the COREWALL® precast insert system in the United States. Dayton Superior, the North American leader in precast construction, has sold the COREWALL line of slotted precast inserts in the United States for 20 years as part of our extensive precast accessories lineup,”...
MMFX Technologies Corporation, an Irvine-based materials science company, announces completion of a $55 million commitment in secured debt financing and receipt of final funding that was contingent upon the startup of its Welland, Ontario, Canada steel mill facility. MMFX had previously received $27 million of the financing. Axiom Capital Management Inc. acted as the procuring agent for the transaction. MMFX Steel of Canada opened ahead of schedule...
Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. announced that it received a contract from the Delaware Department of Transportation (DelDOT) to provide design services for a 3-mile section of limited access roadway that will bypass existing U.S. Route 301 in New Castle County, Del. The project also requires design for bridges and Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS), and related engineering services. Officials estimate the construction value of the contract at...