Norman Mineta, Former DOT Sec., House Transportation Chairman, Dies At 90
Norman Mineta, Former DOT Sec., House Transportation Chairman, Dies At 90
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First Asian-American fo lead DOT was put in internment camp during World War II.
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First Asian-American to lead DOT was put in internment camp during World War II.
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Stewart takes up his post on 1 January, replacing current chairman Gerald Gregory, who leaves the lender after nine years on the board. Stewart is currently the senior independent director at the lender, and has been a non-executive director since 2020. ย
Belfast-based Danske Bank UK is part of Denmarkโs Danske Bank Group, which is one of the largest financial services companies in Scandinavia.ย ย ย
The UK business launched a carbon-neutral mortgage in No...
Stewart takes up his post on 1 January, replacing current chairman Gerald Gregory, who leaves the lender after nine years on the board. Stewart is currently the senior independent director at the lender, and has been a non-executive director since 2020. ย
Belfast-based Danske Bank UK is part of Denmarkโs Danske Bank Group, which is one of the largest financial services companies in Scandinavia.ย ย ย
The UK business launched a carbon-neutral mortgage in No...
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Harry Gesner was an architect who didnโt have a fancy degree โ or, for many years, even an architectural license. In fact, the sum total of his training consisted of attending lectures by Frank Lloyd Wright, then working as a carpenter. The lack of credential was little deterrent to Gesner, who over the course of his life designed and crafted dozens of prized homes around Los Angeles. These included the Cole House, built for swimwear magnate Fred Cole in 1954, a fantasy bachelor pad with a...
Harry Gesner was an architect who didnโt have a fancy degree โ or, for many years, even an architectural license. In fact, the sum total of his training consisted of attending lectures by Frank Lloyd Wright, then working as a carpenter. The lack of credential was little deterrent to Gesner, who over the course of his life designed and crafted dozens of prized homes around Los Angeles. These included the Cole House, built for swimwear magnate Fred Cole in 1954, a fantasy bachelor pad with a...
Flavin served at every level in the former construction union bar general secretary and was a ferocious defender of workersโ rights. He died peacefully at home with his family after a long battle with lung cancer brought on by exposure to asbestos during his time on site. Flavin was born in Ireland in Ballylongford, County Kerry, in 1944 .He was a member of the Kerry minor team that won the All-Ireland football final in 1962. The following year he emigrated to London and started working as a...
Flavin served at every level in the former construction union bar general secretary and was a ferocious defender of workersโ rights. He died peacefully at home with his family after a long battle with lung cancer brought on by exposure to asbestos during his time on site. Flavin was born in Ireland in Ballylongford, County Kerry, in 1944 .He was a member of the Kerry minor team that won the All-Ireland football final in 1962. The following year he emigrated to London and started working as a...
If structural engineers of supertall buildings have slept soundly over the last half century, it is likely in part thanks to Clyde N. Baker Jr., a geotechnical engineer who advanced the science of soil and deep foundation design.ย Baker, 92, who was the ENR Award of Excellence Winner in 2008, died Aug. 26.Baker had a role in designing or in peer reviewing some of the worldโs tallest skyscrapers, many of which were height recordsetters. These include the current world's tallest, th...
If structural engineers of supertall buildings have slept soundly over the last half century, it is likely in part thanks to Clyde N. Baker Jr., a geotechnical engineer who advanced the science of soil and deep foundation design.ย Baker, 92, who was the ENR Award of Excellence Winner in 2008, died Aug. 26.Baker had a role in designing or in peer reviewing some of the worldโs tallest skyscrapers, many of which were height recordsetters. These include the current world's tallest, th...
July 27, 2022
Jim Parsons
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An investigation is underway into the apparent electrocution death of a construction worker at Charlotte Douglas International Airport. The incident, which occurred just after midnigh...
July 27, 2022
Jim Parsons
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An investigation is underway into the apparent electrocution death of a construction worker at Charlotte Douglas International Airport. The incident, which occurred just after midnigh...
British environmentalist James Lovelock died this week on his 103rd birthday. The brilliant scientist spent much of his century-plus on Earth furthering our knowledge of the planet, and exhorting humans to take better care of it. Lovelock was born in London in 1919. He studied medicine, chemistry and biophysics in the U.K. and U.S. He also worked in both countries, spending the 1940s and 1950s at the National Institute for Medical Research in London, and part of the 1960s at the Jet Propulsion L...
British environmentalist James Lovelock died this week on his 103rd birthday. The brilliant scientist spent much of his century-plus on Earth furthering our knowledge of the planet, and exhorting humans to take better care of it. Lovelock was born in London in 1919. He studied medicine, chemistry and biophysics in the U.K. and U.S. He also worked in both countries, spending the 1940s and 1950s at the National Institute for Medical Research in London, and part of the 1960s at the Jet Propulsion L...
Frank Gilbert, a preservationist who helped save Grand Central Terminal from being ravaged by a 55-story skyscraper and in the mid-1960s incubated New York Cityโs pioneering landmarks law, which undergirded preservation movements across the country, died on May 14 in Chevy Chase, Md. He was 91. The cause was pneumonia and complications of Parkinsonโs disease, his wife, Ann Hersh Gilbert, said. Mr. Gilbert, a lawyer who had been New York Cityโs legislative lobbyist in Albany, had been instr...
Frank Gilbert, a preservationist who helped save Grand Central Terminal from being ravaged by a 55-story skyscraper and in the mid-1960s incubated New York Cityโs pioneering landmarks law, which undergirded preservation movements across the country, died on May 14 in Chevy Chase, Md. He was 91. The cause was pneumonia and complications of Parkinsonโs disease, his wife, Ann Hersh Gilbert, said. Mr. Gilbert, a lawyer who had been New York Cityโs legislative lobbyist in Albany, had been instr...