The Yinchuan Sunac City Exhibition Center is located near the entrance of Yinchuan’s Gedi Lake Park. The tower, infused with the traditional culture and regional features of Yinchuan’s “Silk Road,” is the city’s icon. Initially, the project served as a sales center, but it subsequently transformed into a civil cultural center available to the public. © ArchiTranslator Yinchuan...
CEBRA‘s design for the Aarhus Vand headquarters is inspired by the idea of lily pads and is intended to be at a human scale. The design emphasizes the importance of rainwater, thereby underscoring the company’s commitment to preserving ecosystems. Aarhus Vand’s staff and collaborators can lead global water innovation from a centralized location by bringing together all employees...
Laguarda designed the Chengdu Co-Innovation and Cooperation Center. Low Architects has a total GBA of 150,000 square meters and smoothly mixes office, residential, and retail applications. Its core design concept is to create a dynamic and pleasant urban ecological public space while providing the project with a distinct and identifiable form and encouraging people to communicate and connect....
Elva Hotel, or The River Hotel, is a cozy lodging in Voss, Norway. The area is renowned for its stunning scenery and attracts outdoor and extreme sports enthusiasts. The client’s main goal was to create unique accommodations closely connected to their existing activities center. The hotel offers an exclusive experience for active guests to immerse themselves in and...
Wearing a fall arrest system may not be enough to protect construction workers from injury. By Rick Pedley, Contributor Construction workers often find themselves working on elevated surfaces without rails and siding. Fall arrest systems and self-retracting lifelines (SRLs) can be used to prevent workers from falling over the side, but sharp and leading edges present risks of...
By Daniel Majano and Brianne Deerwester, Contributors Contact with or exposure to electricity continues to be one of the leading causes of workplace fatalities and injuries in the United States. According to the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), there were 1,322 workplace fatalities involving electricity between 2011 and 2022. Of the workplace electrical fatalities reported to OSHA,...
By Milwaukee Tool, Contributor It is critical that construction workers be equipped with state-of-the art head protection. Designed to provide better and more comprehensive impact protection, Type 2 safety helmets have become increasingly popular as technologies have evolved to ensure improved worker safety and productivity on the jobsite. Recognizing their benefits, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration has...
Safety and material advancements have revolutionized the way we think about work boots. By Kevin Oberle, Contributor Proper safety footwear is key to preparedness on the jobsite. In addition to providing protection, when workers are confident in each step, they are better able to focus on the current task at hand. As a result, having well-maintained and reliable...
By RMI, the Rack Manufacturers Institute Pallet racks designed for use with automated solutions need to accommodate any specific automation requirements. Image courtesy of RMI. As anyone who attended this past March can attest, warehouses, distribution centers, and fulfillment operations increasingly incorporate automated equipment. Many also utilize industrial steel storage rack within their facilities. Depending on the application,...
Choosing suitable eye and face protection begins with understanding the different hazards that workers face every day. By Milwaukee Tool, Contributor Eye and face protection is as vital as ever in construction and the skilled trades. In 2020, there were more than 18,000 eye injuries in American workplaces, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Construction workers accounted...
