Structural Materials
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
Advances in R&D are fostering new forms of structural and aesthetic steel.
Lamar Station Classroom for Urban Farming, Lakewood, Colo. Photo: Jesse Kuroiwa
The annual awards program, sponsored by the American Institute of Steel Construction, honors the...
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Rendering courtesy of Martin Duplantier Architectes
The project will consist of three pavilions and several bridges and cost around $5.3 million.
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Photo courtesy 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.
The species is first new U.S.-grown softwood to be tested for strength values since 1920s.
Photo: 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
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
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
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.
The nine-story Development House has vertical open spaces for light and air flow.
Rendering and photos courtesy STV
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.
Trim-Tex Wall Mounted Deflection Bead features a coextruded flexible gasket that compresses under...
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Photo: Simpson Gumpertz & Heger
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
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
Calatrava's soaring Innovation Science and Technology Building at Florida Polytechnic University...
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Photo: Thester11 via Wikimedia Commons
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
The new alloy makes steel as strong as titanium.
Demountable structural steel assemblies would be a greener way to make use of steel in the constr...
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The competition invites U.S. developers, institutions, organizations, and design teams willing to...
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The concept behind the research is to slice the stalk of bamboo grass into smaller pieces to bond...
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Beijing-based design cooperative Penda designed a bamboo hotel that can easily expand vertically...
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Kite Bricks proposes a more efficient way of building with its newly developed Smart Bricks syste...
The firm's research shows that 3D printing has the potential to reduce costs, cut waste, and slas...
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Constructing a concrete dome is a costly process, but this may change soon. A team from the Vienn...
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In Seville, Spain, architectural firms Hombre de Piedra and Buró4 have designed and completed a c...
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The 18,000-seat Eagle Stadium in Allen, Texas, opened in 2012 to much fanfare. But cracks recentl...
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The industry associations, with more than 700,000 members generating almost $1 trillion in GDP, h...
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A 14-story luxury apartment block in central Bergen, Norway, will be the world's tallest timber-f...
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