Arnhem · 2007.0709
International consulting and engineering company ARCADIS, based in Arnhem, the Netherlands, has acquired RTKL Associates Inc. Baltimore, Maryland-based RTKL is an architecture, engineering, and planning firm with six offices in the United States and four offices in Europe and Asia.
Berkley · 2007.0709
DSA Architects of Berkley, Michigan, recently hired William E. Vernier III, P.E., as lead mechanical engineer; Margaret M. Robertson as an MEP CADD designer; and Lawrence Mangingin, P.E., as a structural engineer. DSA Architects is a member of Dallas, Texas-based SHW Group LLP, an architecture, engineering, and planning firm focused on education design.
Henderson · 2007.0706
Ground has been broken for the new corporate headquarters of Cashman Equipment Co. on a 53-acre (21.4-hectare) site in Henderson, Nevada. LEED Gold certification will be sought for the facility, designed by SH Architecture of Las Vegas. The seven-building, 300,000-square-foot (28,000-square-meter) complex will include such resource-conserving features as recycled floor and ceiling tiles, waterless urinals, a ground-source heat pump, and climate-appropriate landscaping. Burke & Associates, Inc. of Las Vegas is the general contractor. The opening is slated for December 2008.
New York · 2007.0627
Construction continues on the first of two 13-story office towers at Hutchinson Metro Center in The Bronx, New York City. The building will comprise 260,000 square feet (24,000 square meters) of Class A office space when completed in December 2007. Newman Design of Long Island is the architect for the project.
Portland · 2007.0623
The Portland, Oregon, office of Zimmer Gunsul Frasca Architects LLP designed the 2007 landscape installation in Portland's Pioneer Courthouse Square as part of the annual Portland Rose Festival in June. The "Circles Squared" installation consisted of several dozen circular displays in the brick plaza, variously filled with logs, rocks, ornamental deer, grasses, herbs, and a variety of flowers — over 20,000 of which were used. The display included a 40-foot- (12-meter-) diameter turf mound and several circles that climbed steps to a higher level of the plaza.
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