On the five-year anniversary of the Surfside collapse, a building safety specialist highlights the importance of structural ...
The exhibit at the Structural Engineering Institute’s annual conference achieved cost, speed, and carbon benefits.
In recent years, as the social and economic development and the improvement of people's own living standards, the requirements for building structures are no longer limited to beautiful, but pay more ...
Discover how smarter construction systems are enabling future-ready development through automation, digital technologies, ...
The transition from the Uniform Building Code (UBC-97) to the International Building Code (IBC-21) marked a major shift in the definition of seismic hazard. The term “seismic hazard” in the form of ...
This week's magnitude 7.8 earthquake in the Philippines came with scenes familiar to New Zealanders: collapsed buildings, shattered facades and streets strewn with rubble.
No one disagrees that construction lags in innovation and that everything from restrictive building codes to exaggerated perceptions of risk hold us back. Now two decades old, the Charles Pankow ...
As every architect and professional working in the building industry knows, construction is a labor intensive and time consuming process. Expected difficulties with construction and installation can ...
Office-to-residential conversion seems like a simple solution to a problem. Nationwide, office vacancies stand at 17%, with some big cities—San Francisco, Houston, Austin—topping 30%, while the U.S.
A German wood-brick system can raise a house shell in days, challenging traditional concrete and masonry methods.