Projects: Government

Turning pond scum into a community jewel - 4/1/2008
Searching for an ideal location for a new community center and park, the city of El Paso, Texas, selected an unlikely spot: a detention pond that was riddled with crime and ignored by the development community. The city challenged the Building Team to turn the 100-acre detention basin on the west side of town into its new Westside Community Park and Recreation Center.

Alabama readies for hurricane season with fallout shelter - 3/1/2008
The new arena and coliseum housing the Baldwin County Cattle and Fair Association in Robertsdale, Ala., doubles as a disaster shelter for up to 5,000 people during a short-term emergency and 1,900 for long-term situations. Completed in January by Mobile-based White-Spunner Construction, the bunker can withstand 200-mph sustained winds and the force of a 15-pound, 12-foot-long 2x4 flying at 100 ...

HOK Sport unveils 2012 Olympic Stadium in London - 12/1/2007
Kansas City-based HOK Sport has unveiled the design for the flagship venue for the 2012 Olympics Games in London. Olympic Stadium will accommodate 80,000 spectators, and after the Games will be transformed into a multipurpose venue. A cable-net roof will support the primary lighting system and will be wrapped with a fabric membrane, providing shelter and shade for the occupants.

Greenbuild 2007 ‘Legacy Project’: 
Chicago Center for Green Technology - 10/12/2007

Chicago Center for Green Technology - 10/1/2007
One of the first LEED Platinum buildings in the nation and only the third U.S. building designed to LEED standards, the Chicago Center for Green Technology has been educating the public and AEC professionals alike about green buildings and sustainable design since it opened in May 2002. Located on the site of a former construction and demolition debris scrap yard, CCGT is housed in a 55-year-ol...

Household Chemicals and Electronics Recycling Center - 10/1/2007
Many cities have household waste recycling programs for paper, cardboard, plastic, and aluminum. But what about old paint, used antifreeze, fertilizer, your broken cell phone collection, or that Commodore 64 you've been saving for the grandkids? Last November, Chicago opened the $3.8 million 24,000-sf Household Chemicals and Electronics Recycling Center on the rehabilitated site of an old city ...

'Green Exchange' To Cater to Eco-Friendly Businesses - 10/1/2007
Two entrepreneurs, David and Douglas Baum of Baum Realty Group, are converting an old lamp-making factory in Chicago's Logan Square neighborhood into an exchange building that will house only green-oriented businesses. The building itself, at one time home to the Frederick Cooper Lamp Co., is being revamped to attain LEED Silver certification.

A tech-friendly cladding system - 12/13/2006 12:14:00 PM
Metal cladding interfered with communications at UC San Diego’s advanced technology research facility, so the Building Team found a substitute that was visually high-tech but remained invisible to transmission signals.

Simulator puts sailors under fire at Battle Stations - 10/1/2006
The USS Trayer has been attacked at night. A deck has collapsed, depositing the wreckage of the battleship's galley onto a crew barracks. As water and fire sprays into the ship's hull, sailors have to scramble to crawl through twisted metal and plastic and pull a wounded shipmate out of the debris and smoke and carry him up a ladder to safety.

JetBlue Breaks Ground on Crew Lodge - 8/1/2006
JetBlue Airways broke ground recently at Orlando International Airport on its $24.5 million JetBlue Crew Lodge, which will be used to accommodate the airline's crewmembers who are in the Orlando area conducting training and other airline-related business. Expected to be completed in 14 to 18 months, the lodge will be situated on 4.