by Structural News | May 19, 2014 | Construction, Controversy, Structures |
Humans have no limits for imagination. As we discussed before the Palm Jumeria, now Dubai is working on another enormous project. This World Islands project that they are working on is 9 by 7 kilometer (5.6x 4.3 miles). The World Islands is artificial small islands...
by Structural News | May 1, 2014 | Construction, Controversy, Record, Structures |
The construction industry is challenging the world limits. In Dubai, Palm Jumeirah is a great evidence to that. Dubai is considered a small city with limited shores on the sea. In order to increase it’s shores to attract more tourists, Dubai’s government...
by Structural News | Jul 9, 2012 | Construction, Controversy, Structural Security, Structures |
In the coming weeks, Structural News will be running special stories on the current, dilapidated state of America’s infrastructure. With the recent passing of a new federal Highway bill, America’s crumbling roads and critical structures seem,...
by Structural News | Jun 14, 2012 | Construction, Controversy, Structures |
Broad Group, the Chinese construction company that describes itself as a “sustainable building” company, is well known for its record breaking construction times in mid-rise to high-rise structures. I saw the first video of theirs (top video below) over a...
by Structural News | Jun 12, 2012 | Construction, Controversy |
Lawsuits in the modern age are a dime-a-dozen. However, lawsuits involving a former mobster, a fatal structural collapse, and a prestigious United States university are a bit more rare. Columbia University’s controversial building projects in Harlem, one of New York’s...
by Structural News | Jun 11, 2012 | Construction, Controversy |
The new San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge (left), still under construction Caltrans, the name for the California Department of Transportation, has called for the retraction of a recent Sacramento Bee investigative piece that claims the new San Francisco-Oakland Bay...
