News, Research, and Scientific Discovery
2016 California Scottish Fiddle Competition – Colin Gordon Memorial
It’s once again time for the annual California Scottish Fiddle Competition, which will be held on Saturday, October 8th on the Ventura County Fairgrounds in Ventura, CA. The event, part of the Seaside Highland Games for the seventh year in a row, is sponsored in part by CGA and is held in the memory of […]...
Brookhaven NSLS-II Receives Honor
National Synchrotron Light Source II (NSLS-II), located at Brookhaven National Laboratory in Upton, NY (on Long Island), was recently named “Best of the Best Higher Education/Research Project” by the construction-industry trade magazine ENR. The design team was headed by HDR Architecture, and CGA served as the vibration and acoustics consultant. Major conventional construction was completed […]...
University of Arizona Cancer Center
A new Comprehensive Cancer Center on the Phoenix Biomedical campus has been built as a joint project between the University of Arizona Cancer Center and St. Joseph’s Hospital and Medical Center. Designed by ZGF Architects LLP and Hensel Phelps as part of a Design-build, the five-story, 220,000-square-foot building is the first in Phoenix to utilize […]...
CGA Teams with ZGF for Award Winning Projects
Colin Gordon Associates was involved in two more award winning facilities! With over 70 entries contending in this year’s Best Projects 2015 Competition, a panel of experts from all walks of the engineering industry recently announced the winners of California’s Excellence in Safety Award and Energy/Industry Best Project Award. As one of the key players […]...
New Research Center at University of Chicago
The official dedication of the William Eckhardt Research Center at the University of Chicago took place on October 29th 2015. The multifaceted Eckhardt research center is home to the Institute for Molecular Engineering, the University of Chicago’s Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics, the Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics, the Dean’s Office of Physical Sciences, and […]...
New Science and Engineering Hall at GWU
CGA was involved in another award winning facility! George Washington University's new Science and Engineering Hall has won the Concrete Foundations Association’s Overall Grand Project of the Year Award! This new 700,000 square foot science and research building consists of fourteen floors in total, and is the largest academic building dedicated to these fields in […]...
CGA at Internoise 2015
CGA will be presenting two papers discussing some of our recent work at the upcoming Inter-Noise Congress in San Francisco, CA on August 9-12. Inter-Noise is the largest international gathering of experts in noise control engineering each year. The theme of conference, which is sponsored by the International Institute of Noise Control Engineering (I-INCE), is […]...
Progress on the Niels Bohr Science Park
The large concrete baseplate for the research basement at the Niels Bohr Science Park, which will bring together the science faculties at the University of Copenhagen, was recently completed. The casting of the baseplate took 36 continuous hours, and required 3,800 m3 of concrete. This required a concrete truck to arrive at the site every […]...