In being awarded the 2003 Henry C. Turner Prize by the National Building Museum, then-museum board chair Carolyn Brody praised his impact on construction innovation: "His magnificent designs have challenged engineers to devise innovative structural solutions, and his exacting expectations for construction quality have encouraged contractors to achieve high standards".
The findings are drawn from a major research project funded by the Australian Cooperative Research Centre for Construction Innovation (CRC-CI), with a focus on the Australian context.
It requires a lot of research -- research on the 50+ market, research on technology and building construction innovations, and research on the needs and preference of people our age.
I can tell you that back when I was working on magazines that dealt with the housing industry and the construction industry, it sure seemed to me like the field of "high-performance" environmental construction innovations were the last sector in that field to contract as the housing market went south.
In December last year, JCU PhD student Shi Yin won the manufacturing, construction and innovation category award at the 2015 Australian Innovation Challenge for his research into using recycled plastic for reinforced concrete applications.
"This department is the last department in the world that wants to stop green construction or innovation, or inexpensive construction.
Tempo plots are applied to the archaeological record of Hawai'i to expose rhythms of i) tradition in taro pond-field construction, ii) innovation in temple construction, and iii) fashion in the harvest of branch coral for use as a religious offering.
The rest of the outfits were supposed to reflect the "folky" side of Shenzhen that, presumably, the mass construction and innovation that is the "Shenzhen Miracle" erased a few decades ago.
The Manhattan Building, built by William LeBaron Jenney in 1890, was the first building in Chicago with a complete steel skeleton or "Chicago" construction, an innovation Jenney had introduced in the Home Insurance Building in 1884.
The construction included innovations such as shotwelding (a specialized type of spot welding) to join the stainless steel, and articulation to reduce its weight.
Meanwhile, Oliver Masefield, Eclipse's vice president for engineering, took me through a lucid explanation of the new aircraft's design, construction and technological innovations, and near the end of that he explained why he was glad to see the last of the original engine last year.
