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 ...

The Audrain Building on Newport’s celebrated Bellevue Avenue was designed by New York architect Bruce Price in the early 1900s with intricate exterior detailing that exudes an enduring sense of luxury ...

Following-up on last month's quick review of the five basic types of building construction, according to National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) 220, Standard on Types of Building Construction ...

Oak framing – a building technique whereby oak is used to form the primary load-bearing structural skeleton of a house – has been around for centuries. Thanks to the material’s innate strength and the ...

A new finding in the deadly Surfside condo collapse that killed 98 people shows the building began to experience structural ...

We are now a year into the effective date of what is colloquially known as the Structural Integrity Act (Act). The law combines two important obligations condominium associations or cooperatives must ...

The impact of multi-story building design considerations on embodied carbon emissions, cost, and operational energy has been revealed. The impact of multi-storey building design considerations on ...

The recent push for larger and taller wood structures may seem like an architectural fad—plenty of hype, but only a few dozen completed projects globally. Concrete and steel still rule the world of ...

After years of being known as the “Leaning Tower of Granby,” the once-condemned building in Norfolk, Va., now known as the Savoy, was restored to its original grandeur. Executing an untested plan to ...

Keywords: NEESWood project. Light-frame woodframe structures. Seismic performance. Full-scale tests. Multistory structures. Experimental tests. Shaking table tests ...

Faced with the prospect of an extensive, and expensive, seismic safety retrofit for its 1960s-era downtown headquarters, L.A. County decided to vet an alternative: a far newer building, located just ...