375,000 sq. ft. CA Ventures, in a joint venture with Diamond Realty Investments Inc., has broken ground on a high-rise mixed-use building designed by Shepley Bulfinch that will be the first of three towers in The Link PHX. The 30-story, 375,000-square-foot residential and retail building will be one of the tallest buildings on the Phoenix…
UPGRADES TO WALLS, CEILINGS, AND FLOORS CAN MUTE DISRUPTIVE NOUSE AND VIBRATION Spring 2017 By: Terence Tyson, PE, CDT principal consultant in acoustics, Acentech FITNESS CENTERS are valued amenities in many office, residential and mixed-use buildings, but they can also create noise and vibrations that make them less than ideal neighbors. Can a fitness center…
WHAT DEVELOPERS CAN DO TO ASSESS AND MITIGATE GROUND-BORNE NOISE & VIBRATION IMPACTS Fall 2016 By: Jeffrey A. Zapfe, Ph.D., president, Acentech WHILE TRANSPORTATION systems are the arteries and veins of a city, when it comes to new development, their presence can cause a developer’s heart to skip a beat. One particularly significant challenge relates…
DEVELOPMENT MAGAZINE / NAIOP: 4 STORIES Acentech collaborated with Baker Design Group to provide acoustical design for TripAdvisor’s new 282,000-square-foot global headquarters in Needham, Massachusetts. Their work focused on a four-story atrium designed to accommodate 1,100 employees for company meetings as well as smaller groups for dining, casual meetings and amplified and recorded presentations. The mixed-use…