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This section covers the procurement, financing, site preparation, and project delivery types for different sectors of infrastructure, including: buildings, infrastructure and industrial works.

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Tunnels

Sinking Ground Slows $5.4B Australia Tunnel Boring Project

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Peter Reina
March 17, 2023

Pumped storage hydro owner Snowy Hydro says tunnel integrity has not been compromised, but contractors are taking precautions.


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Structural Engineering

Steel Group Publishes Design Guide for SpeedCore

Modular shear-wall core system touted as safer, simpler and faster to build than a concrete core
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Nadine M. Post
February 23, 2023

Novel high-rise shear-wall core system, consisting of tied steel-plate modules that are field-filled with concrete, has been used on two buildings.



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ENR Viewpoint

Mind the Interfaces: A Primer on Offsite Fabrication

Gary Fischer, PE
February 8, 2023

To reduce project cost and schedule length while addressing the skilled labor shortage, many owners and contractors are moving work from the construction site to a fabrication facility.


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Building Repairs

First Load Transfer a Success at Troubled Millennium Tower in San Francisco

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Nadine M. Post
January 30, 2023

The team for the revised pile upgrade of the 645-ft-tall residential building expects to complete the work to stem settlement by the end of September.


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Overcoming Challenges, Step by Step, to Build Banff Footbridge

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Johanna Knapschaefer
December 29, 2022

Completion of slender 260-ft clear span Nancy Pauw Bridge in Banff National Park fulfills a 108-year vision for the Town of Banff, Alberta.


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Environment

Study: Soil Microbes Can Help Stabilize Buildings in Earthquakes

Findings suggest a process using bacteria could be less carbon-intensive than traditional approaches
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Pam McFarland
December 23, 2022

New research suggests that augmenting natural processes in soils can be a sustainable approach to stabilizing buildings in quake-prone zones.


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ENR Letters

Getting the Story Straight on Top-Down Construction

December 21, 2022

This letter is a rebuttal to online comments posted by Michael McNally and Robert T. Williams in response to the cover story, “ From the Top Down ” (ENR 10/31-11/7/22, p. 18), and its associated sidebar about TGE Top Down LLC, where I am chairman.


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Part Five of a Series | Building a Lower Carbon Future

SE 2050 Is In Quixotic Pursuit of Eliminating Embodied Carbon in Building Structures

Structural engineers are only beginning their quest to halve carbon in new structural systems by 2030 and eradicate it by 2050
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Nadine M. Post
December 21, 2022

Structural Engineers 2050 Commitment Program is supporting the ambitious SE 2050 Challenge, which states that “all structural engineers shall understand, reduce and ultimately eliminate embodied carbon in their projects by 2050.”


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Setting Benchmarks for Carbon Reduction of Sustainable Structures Is No Simple Task

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Nadine M. Post
December 21, 2022

The Structural Engineers 2050 Commitment Program is trying to identify best practices to reduce embodied carbon in building structures.


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Materials

Researchers Examine Concrete Recycling for Ukraine Post-War Construction

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Peter Reina
December 21, 2022

The same recycling principles for concrete could also apply in peacetime, according to a research team from Ukrainian, Swiss and French universities.


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