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Do you have a passion for technology, construction innovation, and research-based architecture projects? For this week's curated job round-up, we've selected 11 job opportunities for Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Brooklyn-based firms featured on Archinect Jobs. If you're looking for a firm... View full entry
Malaysia on Tuesday completed the tower spire of the building that’s set to become the world’s second-tallest skyscraper.
The Merdeka 118 will reach a height of 678.9 meters when completed in 2022, the tallest structure after the Burj Khalifa in Dubai. The project will be an economic catalyst for the capital city of Kuala Lumpur, Prime Minister Ismail Sabri Yaakob said at a ceremony.
— Bloomberg
The new imposing tower in central Kuala Lumpur was designed by Australian firm Fender Katsalidis Architects. View full entry
The more than $150 million renovation of the Cadet Chapel at the U.S. Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs is going to take months — or perhaps more than a year, longer than originally expected; contractors are contending with more asbestos than they expected, as well as other unforeseen challenges. — Colorado Public Radio
The project began in 2019 and is now expected to be pushed back a yet-to-be-determined amount of time away from its original 2023 completion date owing to an unexpected amount of asbestos in addition to other “unforeseen” challenges. The long-overdue restoration is necessary to fix faulty... View full entry
The ten winners of the Construction Startup Competition 2021 have been announced by CEMEX Ventures, recognizing the most promising startup companies in the construction sector for this year. The overall winner of the competition was Document Crunch, an AI-powered software which can identify and... View full entry
According to an Associated Builders and Contractors (ABC) analysis of the recently-released U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics’ Producer Price Index data, construction input prices increased 1.5% in October. Nonresidential construction input prices have increased by 1.4% in the month. ... View full entry
Continuing with their recent expansion into the United States, MAD has officially broken ground on a new residential development in Denver called One River North. Courtesy Colorado Drone Images The Beijing and Los Angeles-based firm is looking to cement its footprint in North America with a... View full entry
Non-residential building projects entering planning stage across the United States are showing strong signs of recovery, according to data from Dodge Construction Network. The latest iteration of the Dodge Momentum Index notes a 10% increase in non-residential building projects in planning through... View full entry
As the first part of a projected $6 billion residential and commercial development, the construction start was a kickoff for Lincoln Yards itself, in the planning stages for more than five years.
Investors and city planners see it as a revival of riverfront land that will connect prosperous areas of the Near North Side, Bucktown and Lincoln Park.
— Chicago Sun-Times
Located on Chicago's North Side, the multibillion-dollar mixed-use Lincoln Yards master plan was designed by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, CBT Architects, and landscape architects James Corner Field Operations. The first building of the scheme breaking ground at 1229 West Concord is the... View full entry
Brooklyn’s first supertall skyscraper has officially topped out. 9 DeKalb, now officially known as The Brooklyn Tower, stands at 1,066 feet and comprises 93 stories. View this post on Instagram A post shared by JDS Development Group (@jdsdevelopmentgroup) Designed by SHoP Architects and... View full entry
Total construction starts across the United States rose 10% during September 2021 versus the previous month, according to new data from Dodge Construction Network. The 10% figure is an amalgamation of residential building starts, nonresidential building starts, and nonbuilding starts, all of which... View full entry
New images released by Urbanize LA reveal that the Eric Owen Moss Architects-designed (W)RAPPER office tower has topped out. The 17-story, 183,000-square-foot high-rise stands out with its free-form steel exoskeleton that wraps the structure allowing for column-free... View full entry
Rider Levett Bucknall's Crane Count decreased by 4.5% from Q1 to Q3 2021. The index measures the number of fixed cranes across cities in the U.S. and Canada, as a representation of the active construction workload in those cities — Construction Dive
Of the 14 cities measured, only Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Toronto, saw an increase in the number of cranes during this period. Chicago, Denver, Honolulu, Phoenix, and Portland were reported as having significant decreases in the number of cranes, dropping between 32% and 78%. Boston, Las... View full entry
Construction will be an engine of global economic growth in the decade to 2030, with output expected to be 35% higher than in the ten years to 2020, according to a new global forecast. — Global Construction Review
The report, titled Future of Construction, by Oxford Economics and Marsh McLennan subsidiaries March and Guy Carpenter projects that growth in construction output will average 3.6% per year from now until 2030, outpacing that of the manufacturing and services sectors. According to the study, this... View full entry
Exactly a year before its opening, the new Morphosis-designed Orange County Museum of Art is sharing images and a construction update for the project that first broke ground in September of 2019. Image © Aleksey Kondratyev/Clark Construction The $93 million addition to Costa Mesa’s... View full entry
ETH Zurich has unveiled HiLo, the latest addition to Empa and Eawag’s modular NEST research building in Duebendorf, Switzerland. Featuring a doubly curved concrete roof, lightweight funicular floors, and self-learning building technology, the new unit reflects nearly a decade of ETH Zurich... View full entry
