Rise in steel and prices causing construction cost overruns. www.icsc.org/srch/sct/sct1204/

The Taipei Towers – currently the World’s tallest building opened the last week of December. www.enr.com/news/buildings/archives/041227b.asp

Construction of world’s next ‘tallest building’, the Burj Dubai Tower, is scheduled to begin in Dubai. At 800 meters it will be 300 meters taller than the Taipei Tower in Taiwan and almost 350 metres taller than the CN Tower in Canada. Skidmore, Owens, and Merrill designed it with a unique 3-sided design. Turner completed the foundation. It will now be built by a South Korean consortium and scheduled for completion in 2008. www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn6781

The world’s tallest road bridge just opened in France. Millau Bridge – 1.6 miles long and 885 feet above the Tarn River Valley. www.csmonitor.com/2004/1215/p04s01-woeu.html?s=hns It was privately financed and will be paid for by tolls.

Results of a survey of Principals on outsourcing – who does it, why, where and the results. www.archnewsnow.com/features/Feature150.htm

Richard Baron of St. Louis, a developer of inner-city mixed-income communities, received the Urban Land Institute J.C. Nichols Prize for Visionaries in Urban Development. www.uli.org/

Olympics 2012: bids from five cities. Each submitted a detailed plan in November:
London - http:// www.london2012.com/en
Madrid - http://www.madrid2012.es/
Moscow - http://bidbook.m2012.ru/
New York - http://www.nyc2012.com/en/
Paris -http://www.parisjo2012.fr/en/

A look at virtual design and computer controlled fabrication of complicated construction. Discusses ShoP project on Long Island and compares it to Gehry techniques. http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/12.11/gehry.html

The exhibit designer of the Clinton Presidential Center will create exhibits for the UA Science Center. http://wildcat.arizona.edu/papers/98/70/01_2.html

Key bond issues passed mean the .05 cent sales tax will continue to go for the construction of new freeways for 20 more years.

Phoenix is aiming to become a biotech capital: http://designbuild.construction.com/features/archive/2004/0412_feature2.asp

Major Bridges under construction:
Woodrow Wilson Bridge in DC area: http://www.wilsonbridge.com/
Greenville Bridge – longest cable stayed bridge on the Mississippi: http://www.greenvillebridge.com/
New Tacoma Narrows Bridge in Washington state: http://www.wsdot.wa.gov/projects/sr16narrowsbridge/
Hoover Dam: http://www.hooverdambypass.net
Cooper River Bridge - Charleston, South Carolina: the longest cable-stayed bridge in North America: http://www.cooperriverbridge.org

 

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