The Great American Tower topped out last month at approximately 5,800 tons of steel, one year and one day after work first began. Thornton Tomasetti is providing structural engineering services to HOK, which designed the 1.6-million-sf building.
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Design work has started for the new two-story, 33,400-gross-sf Bakersfield Federal Courthouse. We are providing structural engineering services for this design-build project, in collaboration with Gilbane and NBBJ Architects.
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The 280,000-m2 (three-million-sf) Metapolis mixed-use development has topped out. Thornton Tomasetti provided structural engineering services through extended design development for Phase I for the 66-story residential high rise.
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The final steel beam of the Rush University Medical Center’s new 14-story hospital was lifted into place last month. Thornton Tomasetti is providing structural design services for Perkins+Will for the project.
MoreDennis Poon, managing principal of Thornton Tomasetti, the international engineering firm with practices in building structure, building skin and building performance, will be a featured speaker at The 3rd Annual Ultra High-rise Building Summit in Shanghai.
John Barry and Alexandra Iannitelli of Thornton Tomasetti, Inc., the international engineering firm with practices in building structure, building skin and building performance, were recently named two “New Faces of Civil Engineering” by the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE).
On Tuesday, January 26th, two members of the Thornton Tomasetti Building Performance practice, Sam Cooper and Vince Aleo, associate and senior engineer, respectively, put their boots on the ground in earthquake-ravaged Haiti evaluating buildings for an insurance company client.
Joseph Burns will moderate a panel on “Minimizing Change Orders Through BIM Utilization” at the 2010 Airport Consultants Council/American Association of Airport Executives Airport Planning, Design & Construction Symposium.
Despite years of protests and lawsuits meant to stop it, ground is being broken on the new arena for the Nets in Brooklyn today. Work has been going on at the Atlantic Yards site in Prospect Heights since last fall, but those involved say today’s groundbreaking marks the next phase in construction of the 18,000-seat Barclays Center.
Now that Atlantic Yards is all but cleared for construction, Forest City Ratner is showing off what the interior will look like.
This nearly 800-foot-tall tower’s pleated curtain wall is more than just an intriguing design gesture.
During the 2009 Structural Engineers Buildings Conference & Expo held in Chicago, I facilitated a roundtable to discuss the expanding leadership opportunities for structural engineers. Considering the challenges that practitioners face each day, but especially in this down economy, I wanted to discuss the obstacles that have opened new doors for forward-thinking structural engineering firm leaders.