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Enhancing the I-5

Civil + Structural Engineer

The steps of this project include: Installing Intelligent Transportation System (ITS) improvements including count stations, closed-circuit television (CCTV), and ramp metering to nine on-ramps. Building retaining walls, sound walls, and a new concrete median barrier and guardrails.

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Prefab, Modular Homebuilder Touts Energy and Cost Benefits

The Pro Builder

A heating recovery system uses the exhausted air to pre-heat and pre-cool incoming air before it’s delivered to the home. The factory panelizes the ceilings, floors, and walls, then brings all the elements together to form the module. The all-electric homes use heat pumps for heating and cooling, as well as for hot water and dryers.

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Brent Spence Bridge Corridor Project team recommends innovations to reconnect communities and improve safety

Civil + Structural Engineer

Third, the project team plans to combine the I-75 southbound ramps to 2 nd and 3 rd streets, which will reduce both costs and the project footprint. Second, entrance locations to the interstate system are being adjusted to line up more like they are today near Pike Street. Our team really rose to the occasion and is making that happen.”

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Modular adaptive reuse of parking structure grants future flexibility

BDC Network

Additionally, many communities have seen recent expansions of mass transit systems, further decreasing the need for personal vehicles. proposes removing the highest level of the parking ramp and inserting wood-framed residential units into the flat portions of that level. From Loudon County, Va., outside of Washington, D.C.,

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Innovating LXRP’s

Roads Online

For the first time, a new retaining wall system being used in a level crossing removal is set to innovate infrastructure projects across Australia. The integrated counterforts are jointed onsite to a structural concrete footing, which then forms a highly efficient and robust cantilever retaining wall.

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Built on Happiness: Meet Pro Builder's 2023 Builder of the Year

The Pro Builder

He’s happy because members of his construction team volunteered to build a ramp for a trade partner’s wheelchair-bound father at no cost to the family. It becomes a sort of self-reinforcing system.” But the impact of Schell’s mission spans well beyond the walls of its headquarters. and Nashville, Tenn.,

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Rotate with Component

Revit OpEd

The easiest example is beam or wall tags following their parent. These categories respond to Rotate with Component: Walls, Curtain Walls, Doors, Windows, Railings, Ramps, Stairs (Runs, Landings and Supports), Structural (Framing, Braces and Trusses), Property Boundary, Property Line Segments, Planting, and Parking.