Seismic Design
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Vancouver, Canada’s third largest metropolitan area, has the country’s highest seismic risk....
Getting a project through plan review can be an unusually long process, anywhere from six months...
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Water tanks preparing for fracking. Photo: Joshua Doubek/Wikimedia Commons.
Significant risk increases seen in some areas of the U.S.
Photo: Torre Reforma/Arup
Double-V hangers and irregularly spaced gaps allow the structure to bend.
Image courtesy Perkins+Will
For employees, certain design strategies can lessen stress, improve health, and promote a greater...
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Expected to improve consistency of risk evaluation on commercial real estate transactions.
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Kengo Kuma developed the rods, which are stronger and lighter than iron.
Rendering © Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP
The hat truss-supported office tower was topped off in January, rising 25 stories above the Salt...
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SaftiFirst’s custom curtain wall complied with all the seismic requirements while still blending...
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Taipei 101 stays safe even though it stands near a fault line in a typhoon zone. Photo: peellden/Wikimedia Commons
Popular Mechanics named the 10 structures that best withstand floods, winds, storms, and earthqua...
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Thousands of Los Angeles buildings with soft-first-stories need retrofits. Photo: Britta Gustafson/Creative Commons.
Thousands of wood, concrete apartments subject to costly renovations.
Photo: Oreogn State Capitol building. M.O. Stevens, Wikimedia Commons.
A survey found that more than 1,000 Oregon school buildings face a high risk of collapse during e...
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The first U.S. installation of the ShakeAlarm was installed in North Portland, Ore.'s Radiator Building. All images: CoreFirst
The ShakeAlarm system recognizes and quantifies the faster but lower-energy seismic P-wave, which...
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Photo: Arlington County via Wikimedia Commons
Virginia has edged out Florida as the state with the most stringent hurricane building codes, acc...
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A CLT expert clears up several common misconceptions and myths surrounding the use of wood as a...
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Recent advancements in structural design, combined with the loosening of density and zoning requi...
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Experts from the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat release their 2014 construction fore...
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Last year was the second-busiest ever in terms of 200-meter-plus building completions, with 73 to...
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In California, there are still hundreds of concrete buildings that need reinforcement to bring th...
read moreSimpson Strong-Tie donated product and provided technical expertise for the CFS-NEES project, a s...
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Design professionals now have a valuable new resource on blast resistant structures with AISC Des...
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The Poly Corporation Headquarters in Beijing features a unique design component, innovations in high-rise building design.
KONE's carbon-fiber hoisting technology and the Broad Group's prefab construction process are a...
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On April 17, Michael F. Engestrom, Dann H. Hall, Michael A. West, Stephen A. Mahin, Wallace W. Sa...
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CTLGroup, an expert engineering and materials science firm located in Skokie, Illinois, is sadden...
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A group of civil engineers from around the western U.S. is developing additions to the building c...
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By completing this course, you earn 1.0 HSW/SD AIA Learning Units.
California regulators responsible for enforcing earthquake safety laws have failed to certify mor...
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The AISC T.R. Higgins Lectureship Award is presented annually by the American Institute of Steel...
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