Indianapolis’ Huge Hotel Expansion. City and Developer Go with Four Facilities Instead of One Large Building.

The city of Indianapolis had good news and bad news for hotel-developing partners White Lodging and REI Investments. Yes, the city announced just before Christmas 2006, you win the deal to build a massive hotel in downtown Indianapolis. Full Story >>

Building Owner Offsets Base Electric Load with Renewable Energy Credits. Purchase is Part of Owner’s Green-Operation Program.

Owners of a renovated, 121-year-old building at 20 N. Michigan Ave. in downtown Chicago say it is among the city’s first commercial office buildings to offset 100% of its base electrical load with renewable energy credits (RECs) that support ecologically friendly power production. In this case, the RECS help support a wind farm in Oklahoma. Full Story >>

Liquid Assets: Roof-Mounted Damper Stifles Sway in the Windy City.

Chicago’s newest hotel/condo tower houses one of the nation’s first tuned liquid dampers, a system to ensure stillness inside when gale winds whip around outside.
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Bridge Crews Slip and Slide in Cleveland. Precision Moves Realign Steel Trusses.

The one kind of surprise you want when you have gone to great lengths to plan the moving of an entire bridge section is having things slip and slide along even more smoothly than expected. Full Story >>

Intelligent Compaction is on a Roll. Smart Machines Could Save Taxpayers $100 Billion a Year in Infrastructure Costs.

Nationwide research is firming up the case for “intelligent” compaction, a construction method three decades in the making that could save billions of dollars a year in potholed roads, cracked bridges, broken dams and blown-out tires. But as it represents a huge cultural shift in project delivery, the industry is struggling to find a standard way to roll it out. Full Story >>

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