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 ...

In modern architecture, high-rise building and skyscrapers was proposed as one of the effective factors to urban problems. This proposed method causes so much problems in these cities conditions such ...

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 ...

With the growing demand for resilient, efficient, and low carbon infrastructure, increasing attention has been directed toward novel materials and ...

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.

Significant updates include a new sustainability appendix that reflects modern construction practices; revised requirements for post-installed reinforcing bars; and ...

The most comprehensive reference on building with mass timber, extensively covering its sustainability, materials, building conceptualization, structural design and construction processes Mass Timber: ...

Earn Your Structural Engineering Certificate in Bridge Design from One of the Nation's Most Respected Engineering Schools. Bridge structure design is a subset of civil engineering. Bridge structure ...

We live in an age of increasing wildfire disasters because more of us are living in places where wildfires and human development collide. Right now, fast-moving wildfires are forcing mass evacuations ...