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- Firms find highways to happiness. Fine, Howard // Orange County Business Journal;10/28/96, Vol. 19 Issue 44, p1
Reports that highway projects in Orange County, California has pushed up the billings of some of the engineering companies in the county. Names of largest firms that saw an increase; Information on employment within the engineering companies; Statistics for national construction for the first...
- Bitter Experiences Drive Israeli Design Practices. Sandler, Neal // ENR: Engineering News-Record;12/1/2003, Vol. 251 Issue 22, Building For a Secure... p22
There are few countries that can match the experience Israel has in designing protective structures. Military threats to population centers along borders forced Israelis into the field decades ago. Large-scale investments in securing buildings began in the early 1970s. Attacks led to the design...
- Up Front. // Canadian Consulting Engineer;Oct/Nov2002, Vol. 43 Issue 6, p8
Reports on developments in the consulting engineering firms in Canada. Approval of the Act to Improve Public Safety and to Increase Efficiency in Building Code Enforcement; Opposition to the decision of Microsoft Canada to use the designation 'Microsoft Certified Systems Engineers' by graduates...
- ICT Building. // Canadian Consulting Engineer;Oct/Nov2002, Vol. 43 Issue 6, p35
Describes the University of Calgary Information and Communication Technology Building project of Stantec Consulting in Calgary, Alberta. Structural design; Design and construction; Construction cost.
- Taller Version of Tower Prompts Fancy Footwork. Reina, Peter // ENR: Engineering News-Record;10/8/2007, Vol. 259 Issue 13, p16
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- Steel Balls. // Inwood;Sep/Oct2008, Issue 82, p7
The article criticizes some newspapers for reporting steel-framed houses are better than wooden-framed houses and that they were the solution to New Zealand's leaky homes problem. Several newspapers have reported a story about an Auckland engineering firm breaking into the British construction...
- York University Computer Science. // Canadian Consulting Engineer;Oct/Nov2002, Vol. 43 Issue 6, p28
Focuses on the York University Computer Science Building project by Keen Engineering in Vancouver, British Columbia. Energy saving measures; Structural design; Cost for the mechanical systems.
- Clarifications. // ENR: Engineering News-Record;2/11/2008, Vol. 260 Issue 5, p7
Corrections to several articles are presented, including "Bechtel/Parsons Pay Millions for CA/T Errors," in the February 4, 2008 and "Soil Specialist Puts Supertall Buildings on Solid Ground," in the January 7/14, 2008.
- Winds of change. // Building Design;4/21/2006, Issue 1718, p6
The article reports that the pavilion planned for south London, England's Elephant and Castle has received planning permission. The pavilion was designed by the engineering firm XCO2. The structure is tram-shaped and is powered by photovoltaic cells on its roof, a wood pellet boiler and two...
