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Back by Popular Demand: AutoCAD for the Mac
Autodesk announced on August 31 that it has released AutoCAD 2011 for Macintosh, along with AutoCAD WS, a mobile app that will allow users to share their AutoCAD designs in the field using iPhones, iPads, and iTouches.
Construction Jobless Rate Improves Slightly in August
Construction's unemployment rate moved down slightly in August but remains highest among all industries.
Labor Panel Okays Union Banner Protests
The National Labor Relations Board has ruled that the posting of stationary banners by members of a construction union at a secondary employer’s workplace does not violate the nation’s labor laws.
Five Key Executives Depart RMJM
One of the world’s largest architectural firms, the Scotland-based RMJM, is losing three key executives, in addition to losing two others within the past 10 months.
Green Label for Contractors Covers Offices and Practices
Associated Builders and Contractors, a national organization representing 25,000 construction firms, has rolled out a green certification for its members.
Richard Meier to Design Home for Mr. Bean
Richard Meier revealed last night that his design plans for a new home for actor Rowan Atkinson in an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB)in Oxfordshire, England were approved by the South Oxfordshire District Council. This will be Meier's first built work in Great Britain.
Obama Backs new Stimulus Program Valued at $50 Billion
A combative President Barack Obama is promising to put Americans back to work rebuilding roads, railways and runways, and is blaming Republicans for opposing his efforts to stimulate the economy.
Construction Methods Of The Ancient Inca Offer Sustainable Lessons
Civil engineers and other researchers working under a $90,000 National Science Foundation grant are studying the Great Inca Road of South America for clues to help modern society build roads, bridges and other infrastructure that last longer and have a less harmful impact on the environment.
USGBC Expands Data Collection from LEED Buildings
The U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) has begun collecting energy- and water-use data from LEED-certified buildings, and is promising preliminary performance reports for building owners participating in its Building Performance Partnership (BPP) by November 2010.
Port of Miami Expansion Includes New Rail Link
Hoping to attract cargo traffic from an expanded Panama Canal in 2014, the Port of Miami is taking steps to refurbish a dormant 4.4-mile rail corridor linking the port with the Hialeah Intermodal Railyard, operated by the Florida East Coast Railroad.
Chicago Plans $4B Urban Village
A planned two-mile relocation of Chicago's South Shore Drive, about 10 miles south of the city's downtown, is spurring a $4-billion megaproject to turn the vacant 530-acre site of a former U.S. Steel mill on Lake Michigan into a new community with nearly 14,000 housing units.
Stantec to Acquire San Francisco's Anshen + Allen Architecture Firm
Stantec says that it has signed a letter of intent to acquire Anshen + Allen, one of North America's leading health care architectural firms with more than 200 employees and offices in San Francisco, Columbus, Boston and London.
Expanding Horizons: Analyzing the Balfour Beatty/Parsons Brinckerhoff deal
Ian P. Tyler, a chartered accountant who now runs London-based contractor Balfour Beatty plc, admits to “never being good” at the accounting business.
Virginia Tech Student Wins Yéle Haiti Competition
Virginia Tech architecture student Christopher Morgan has won an international competition to design the Yéle Music Studio in the Cité Soleil area of Port-au-Prince.
Reviving a Modest Masterpiece: The Trenton Bath House
To many architects, Louis Kahn’s 1955 Trenton Bath House in Ewing, New Jersey, just restored by Farewell Mills Gatsch Architects (FMG), exudes everything that worked in 20th-century architecture.
Fatalities Down, But Rate Stays Flat
Construction workplace deaths continued to decline in 2009, but the fatality rate held even with the previous year’s mark, and industry safety specialists see little sign that conditions are improving on project sites nationwide.
NY Approves New Neighbor for Empire State Building
The Empire State Building's owner has lost his bid to stop a new skyscraper from rising in the neighborhood.
Diller Scofidio + Renfro to Design Broad Museum
It's finally official: After months of speculation, Eli Broad announced that Diller Scofidio + Renfro will design his Broad Collection museum on Grant Avenue in Los Angeles.
A Golden Anniversary for a Philip Johnson Museum
This October, the Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute’s Museum of Art (MWPAI) in Utica, New York, will celebrate the 50th anniversary of its Philip Johnson-designed home with an exhibition commemorating the work of the illustrious Modernist and Postmodernist architect.
Fluor, United Rentals Form Jobsite Logistics Partnership
United Rentals Inc. and Fluor Corp. are teaming up to offer equipment, tools and logistics services for oil-and-gas owners along the Gulf Coast. Executives say the venture may later expand beyond the region.

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