Researchers at MIT have developed a construction system in which modular, interlocking building blocks ...

MIT researchers have developed a modular 'voxel' construction system that robots can assemble and disassemble, enabling buildings to be reused rather than demolished. The approach aims to cut material ...

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Thanks to a number of key innovations, steel is playing a greater role in residential high-rises, senior and student housing, and taller mixed-use developments, says architect Jayshree Shah, AIA, ...

Exciting and unique buildings increasingly dot the landscape of our urban environments and beautifully fill the pages of our design magazines. Conversely, over the past half century the construction ...

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Performance-based structural fire design of steel frames can eliminate fire protection on up to half of a building’s floor beams, according to a two-year study of PBSFD. Still, structural engineers ...

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