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Top engineering consultancy Buro Happold gets new CEO DUBAI, 4 hours, 2 minutes ago Buro Happold, a leading integrated engineering consultancy services group, has appointed James Bruce as its new chief executive officer. Also it has named New York-based integrated engineering expert Craig Schwitter as the new senior partner to help boost its global expansion strategy.   Bruce, who has a background is in building businesses outside of building engineering and consultancy, will aim to gro...

Here are the winners of the 2021 AIA Architecture Awards By Alexander Walter| The Polygon Gallery in North Vancouver, British Columbia by Patkau Architects © Robert Stefanowicz Ten projects from across the United States, Canada, and Senegal have been distinguished with the AIAs 2021 Architecture Awards for design achievement in contemporary architecture. Todays announcement follows the unveiling of the Regional & Urban Design Awards, Interior Architecture Awards, and COTE Top Ten Awards in rec...

April 27, 2021 4:43 pm Plans for an 810-bed Northeastern University dorm currently under city review are facing a new round of criticism, now from student and progressive activists who argue the project would further gentrification in a neighborhood steeped in rising rents and resident displacement. University representatives, in documents filed with the BPDA, say the first five stories would be dedicated to classrooms, makerspace areas, and office space, while the rest of the building would...

Though most students, faculty, and staff do not yet have access to Harvard’s new Science and Engineering Complex due to Covid-19 restrictions, The Crimson was granted access to tour the eight-story SEC Monday, guided by School of Engineering and Applied Sciences spokesperson Paul Karoff. Situated across more than five acres with a maximum occupancy of around 2,000 people, the SEC plans for a full opening to students in fall 2021. Construction for the complex started more than five years ag...

Though most students, faculty, and staff do not yet have access to Harvard’s new Science and Engineering Complex due to Covid-19 restrictions, The Crimson was granted access to tour the eight-story SEC Monday. Here is a brief look, in photos, of the SEC’s features, study spaces, and classrooms students can look forward to.

Photograph by Jonathan Shaw/ Harvard Magazine.  Harvard leveraged construction of its massive new Science and Engineering Complex (SEC) in Allston in order to coax building-materials manufacturers into removing hazardous chemicals from their supply chains, the University reports. Heather Henriksen, the University’s principal sustainability officer, and Elsie Sunderland, the Gordon McKay professor of environmental chemistry, described their work with suppliers during a press call to announce ...

10th annual NDSU fundraiser will benefit alum battling cancer Battle of the Cents-es will raise money for alumnus Jordyn Meskan, a 25-year-old with a degree in civil engineering and minor in Spanish. 3:25 pm, Mar. 15, 2021 × iStock / Special to The Forum FARGO — A 10th annual friendly competition for a good cause between two North Dakota State University colleges will benefit an NDSU alumnus who is now battling a rare and aggressive form of cancer. The Battle of the Cen...

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Nick J. Grieco, a guitarist, is known by his friends as the one among them that continued to live in Allston after the rest moved elsewhere. Nick J. Grieco moved to Boston in 2006 for his first year at the Berklee College of Music and relocated to Allston soon after. Fourteen years later, he’s still there. Even after watching friends move to other cities, he chose Allston as the place to build his network and launch his music career. “I think my circles of friends that left before â�...

After the coronavirus crisis delayed the opening of Harvard’s new Science and Engineering Complex in Allston, faculty and staff at the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences have begun transitioning their offices to the new building. Harvard had intended to open the complex, which has been under construction for roughly five years, this past summer. The coronavirus pandemic, which caused the City of Boston to impose a moratorium on construction projects in the spring of 2020 and has di...