The Nathan M. Newmark Civil Engineering Laboratory , or Newmark Lab , located at 205 N. Mathews Avenue in Urbana, Illinois on the campus of the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign , houses the university's Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering . The Lab was built in 1967, and has been modified and updated a number of times since then. The facility was named after professor and department head Nathan M. Newmark after his death.
10-533: The building consists of classrooms and offices surrounding a large open area called the crane bay for large scale experiments, including those of the Newmark Structural Engineering Lab (NSEL). Newmark also contains a professional machine shop where students and faculty can have material fabricated by the staffed professionals, and a student instrumentation workshop where students and faculty can fabricate materials themselves. In 2011,
20-506: A "personal dumping ground" for loss-making development properties. Hsin Chong has also been accused of acquiring properties at inflated prices. The company's Hong Kong business was profitable, but the firm recorded a loss of HK$ 2.7 billion in 2016 due largely to a HK$ 4.4 billion loss on mainland property investments. Its shares suspended trading in April 2017. In early 2017 it was reported that
30-648: The Department of Civil Engineering. Yeh is chairman of Hsin Chong International Holdings, Ltd., a large construction company in China. The remainder of the funding for the addition came from private sources including alumni and corporate sponsors, and $ 1.0 million contributions by both the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and the College of Engineering. It opened in time for
40-440: The M. T. Geoffrey Yeh Student Center was added to the building. The crane bay is a large open area in the center of Newmark Laboratory with a three-story height. It is where much of the department's structural research and testing is done. There are large doors on both the north and south sides of this area, where trucks and equipment can move through. The crane bay gets its name from two large yellow hydraulic cranes on rails above
50-685: The company owed HK$ 500 million to subcontractors in Hong Kong, and the situation had led to delays at various construction projects including the M+ Museum . Hsin Chong's HK$ 5.9 billion contract with the Hong Kong Government's West Kowloon Cultural District Authority (WKCDA) for construction of the M+ Museum was terminated on 17 August 2018 on grounds of Hsin Chong's insolvency and poor performance causing "significant delays", though
60-408: The department's annual career fair. In 2011, an addition called the M. T. Geoffrey Yeh Student Center, designed by Teng & Associates, was completed at the cost of $ 7 million, adding 20,500 square feet (1,900 m) of classrooms, student study space and meeting rooms. The Yeh Center was funded entirely with private gifts, in particular a $ 4 million gift from M. T. Geoffrey Yeh, a 1953 graduate of
70-438: The room, which move heavy equipment around. The crane bay houses many structural analysis equipment, including a concrete cylinder crusher for strength tests and beam deflection measurement devices. There is also a 28-foot-tall (8.5 m) L-shaped concrete reaction wall with hydraulic actuators, which was added in 2004. The crane bay's large open size is also sometimes used for departmental events such as Engineering Open House and
80-513: The start of classes in fall 2011. Many student and professional research organizations use Newmark's facilities for various projects and events. Student Professional Notes 40°06′49″N 88°13′38″W / 40.1137°N 88.2271°W / 40.1137; -88.2271 Hsin Chong Hsin Chong Group Holdings Limited (新昌營造集團有限公司; SEHK : 404 ) or simply Hsin Chong (新昌)
90-525: Was a major construction company in Hong Kong . It was established in 1939 in Hong Kong as Hsin Chong & Company by Godfrey Yeh Kan-Nee and Chien Chu-Keng. Yeh was a well-established builder in Shanghai before moving to Hong Kong in 1937. His son Geoffrey Yeh Meou-Tsen worked with him from 1955. Chu-Keng's son Philip worked briefly at Hsin Chong before starting his own firm. The company
100-970: Was listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange in 1991. In the late 1990s, Hsin Chong was involved in a scandal over short-piling. As a result, the company was banned from bidding for government contracts between 1999 and 2002. Chinese billionaire Lin Zhuo Yan has taken over control of the company from the Yeh family. In recent years, the company has diversified into mainland China property development. In May 2014, Hsin Chong Construction Limited agreed to pay HK$ 10.625 billion for properties in Sanshui city. Anonymous Analytics reported in September 2016 that Lin uses Hsin Chong as
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