The National Institute of Standards and Technology has added a remote sensing and visualization project to its roster of queries into the June 24 partial collapse of the Champlain Towers South residential condominium in Surfside, Florida, which killed 98 people.
The founder and chairman of global real estate firm Hines died August 23 at age 95. The visionary developer received a Lifetime Achievement Award from RECORD in 2013 for his patronage of architecture.
Construction could begin in mid-November on the estimated $100-million fix for San Francisco's 645-ft-tall Millennium Tower, which has settled more than 17 in. since its completion in 2009.
Many hospital retrofits are aimed at increasing the supply of coronavirus patient ICU and airborne infection isolation rooms, to protect healthcare workers.
Advocates hope to see efforts like Marin County's Bay Area Low-Carbon Concrete Code—which would limit embodied carbon in both public and private projects—catch on around the globe.
