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Structural Materials
May 30, 2018 |
In this 15-minute talk at BD+C’s Accelerate Live! conference (May 10, 2018, Chicago), architect and... read more
U.S. steel and aluminum mills could get a market-share boost from import tariffs. But the industry can't say for certain yet which products or producers will ultimately be subject to those duties. Image: Pixabay
April 18, 2018 | John Caulfield, Senior Editor
Are import quotas and a “Buy American” infrastructure mandate in the cards?
March 26, 2018 | BD+C Staff
Among the best structural products included in BD+C's Top 101 Products report are Versa-Lok's Bro...
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The CorTek system has been used on five projects to date, including the One Steamboat Place resort in Steamboat Springs, Colo. Images: Vulcraft
February 08, 2018 | David Malone, Associate Editor
With this patented, steel-and-concrete hybrid system, the service core will no longer be the sche...
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Courtesy Michael Green Architecture/Lotus Equity Group
February 05, 2018 | David Malone, Associate Editor + John Caulfield, Senior Editor
Michael Green Architecture is designing the building.
AESS steel columns at Lee Hall III, Clemson University, designed by Thomas Phifer and Partners with McMillan Pazdan Smith Architecture and Skidmore, Owings & Merrill. Photo: Courtesy SOM / Scott Frances Photography
August 23, 2017 | C.C. Sullivan, Contributing Editor
Advances in R&D are fostering new forms of structural and aesthetic steel.
June 13, 2017 |
Graham Cranston shares SGH’s efforts to take hold of its project data using mathematical optimizatio... read more
Lamar Station Classroom for Urban Farming, Lakewood, Colo. Photo: Jesse Kuroiwa
April 03, 2017 | AISC + BD+C Staff
The annual awards program, sponsored by the American Institute of Steel Construction, honors the...
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Rendering courtesy of Martin Duplantier Architectes
December 15, 2016 | David Malone, Associate Editor
The project will consist of three pavilions and several bridges and cost around $5.3 million.
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Photo courtesy Freres Lumber
November 01, 2016 | Freres Lumber
Designed as an alternative for cross laminated timber (CLT), MPP is a large-scale plywood panel w...
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Photo courtesy Northeastern Lumber Manufacturers Assoc.
November 01, 2016 | Peter Fabris, Contributing Editor
The species is first new U.S.-grown softwood to be tested for strength values since 1920s.
Photo: Hoffmann Architects
May 11, 2016 | Erin L. Kesegi, AIA, and Robert A. Marsoli, Jr., Hoffmann Architects
Though brick masonry is highly durable, it is still important to conduct regular inspection of th...
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Photo: Vermont Timber Works Inc./Wikimedia Commons
April 13, 2016 | BD+C Staff
The National Frame Building Association released an infographic showing just how far the industry...
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Train station Seattle. Photo: Kaleb Nyquist/Creative Commons
April 04, 2016 | AIA
A new white paper addresses the nation’s $3 trillion public infrastructure crisis and how public...
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Rendering © Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP
March 28, 2016 | BD+C Editors
The hat truss-supported office tower was topped off in January, rising 25 stories above the Salt...
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Renderings courtesy Waugh Thistleton. Click here to enlarge.
March 28, 2016 | Mike Chamernik, Associate Editor
The nine-story Development House has vertical open spaces for light and air flow.
Rendering and photos courtesy STV
March 01, 2016 | David Barista, Editorial Director
Faced with building a mid-rise structure on a site with poor soil conditions, a structural engine...
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Trim-Tex Wall Mounted Deflection Bead installed, before drywall mud applied.
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Trim-Tex Wall Mounted Deflection Bead features a coextruded flexible gasket that compresses under...
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Photo: Simpson Gumpertz & Heger
January 20, 2016 | BD+C Staff
Simpson Gumpertz & Heger and CW Keller use 3D modeling and CNC machining to advance concrete...
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The Waterfront, a 128-unit wood-based residential development in Stavanger, Norway, designed by AART architects and Kraftvaerk for client Kruse-Smith. This first phase was completed last July; a second phase is under construction. More than 80 firms competed for the project. Photo courtesy AART Architects
April 26, 2015 | C.C. Sullivan, Contributing Editor
The recent push for larger and taller wood structures may seem like an architectural fad. But Bui...
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The University of Oregon's Hatfield-Dowlin Football Performance Center earned a Merit Award for the design and structure of the facility. Image: Jeremy Bittermann
March 30, 2015 | American Institute of Steel Construction
Calatrava's soaring Innovation Science and Technology Building at Florida Polytechnic University...
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Photo: Thester11 via Wikimedia Commons
February 18, 2015 | Peter Fabris, Contributing Editor
Research at Case Western Reserve University has found that buildings that rock during an earthqua...
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Two instructors and a doctoral student of the Graduate Institute of Ferrous Technology at Pohang University of Science and Technology, South Korea, make up the team behind the discovery. Photo: Graduate Institute of Ferrous Technology/Wikimedia Commons
February 10, 2015 | BD+C Staff
The new alloy makes steel as strong as titanium.
November 06, 2014 | Peter Fabris, Contributing Editor
Demountable structural steel assemblies would be a greener way to make use of steel in the constr...
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These prestigious awards recognize outstanding achievement in engineering and architecture on str...
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October 13, 2014 | The Softwood Lumber Board
The competition invites U.S. developers, institutions, organizations, and design teams willing to...
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July 24, 2014 | BD+C Staff
The concept behind the research is to slice the stalk of bamboo grass into smaller pieces to bond...
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July 14, 2014 | BD+C Staff
Beijing-based design cooperative Penda designed a bamboo hotel that can easily expand vertically...
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July 11, 2014 | BD+C Staff
Kite Bricks proposes a more efficient way of building with its newly developed Smart Bricks syste...
June 18, 2014 | Arup
The firm's research shows that 3D printing has the potential to reduce costs, cut waste, and slas...
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