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Wood | Mar 28, 2016

Waugh Thistleton designs one of the tallest timber office buildings in London

The nine-story Development House has vertical open spaces for light and air flow.

 

Building Tech | Mar 1, 2016

Buckling restrained braced frame debuts in the Northeast, at Bronx health center

Faced with building a mid-rise structure on a site with poor soil conditions, a structural engineering team turns to a West Coast favorite—BRBF technology—for a steadying influence.

Structural Materials | Feb 8, 2016

Trim Tex prevents deflection damage in Chicago high-rise retirement center

Trim-Tex Wall Mounted Deflection Bead features a coextruded flexible gasket that compresses under deflection pressure, preventing drywall cracks and blisters.

Great Solutions | Jan 20, 2016

Digitally fabricated concrete formwork pushes the limits of what can be cost-effectively constructed in concrete

Simpson Gumpertz & Heger and CW Keller use 3D modeling and CNC machining to advance concrete construction.

Multifamily Housing | Mark Halverson | Aug 25, 2015

Engineered wood helps meet booming demand for multifamily projects

Multifamily housing starts reached 358,000 in 2014, a 16 percent increase over 2013 and the highest total since 2007

Wood | Apr 26, 2015

Building wood towers: How high is up for timber structures?

The recent push for larger and taller wood structures may seem like an architectural fad. But Building Teams around the world are starting to use more large-scale structural wood systems. 

Structural Materials | Mar 30, 2015

12 projects earn structural steel industry's top building award

Calatrava's soaring Innovation Science and Technology Building at Florida Polytechnic University is among the 12 projects honored by the American Institute of Steel Construction in the 2015 IDEAS² awards competition. 

Codes and Standards | Feb 18, 2015

Buildings with rocking steel-braced frames are advantageous in earthquakes

Research at Case Western Reserve University has found that buildings that rock during an earthquake and return to plumb would withstand seismic shaking better than structural designs commonly used today in vulnerable zones of California and elsewhere.

Steel Buildings | Feb 10, 2015

Korean researchers discover 'super steel'

The new alloy makes steel as strong as titanium.

Dec 28, 2014

Robots, drones, and printed buildings: The promise of automated construction

Building Teams across the globe are employing advanced robotics to simplify what is inherently a complex, messy process—construction.

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