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 ...

Portions of the current draft of a new American Institute of Steel Construction (AISC) standard, “Seismic Provisions for Evaluation and Retrofit of Existing Structural Steel Buildings (AISC 342),” are ...

In a race against time and the elements, a team of historic rehab experts has mobilized to save a former machine shop from collapse at San Francisco’s Pier 70 shipyard. Their strategy calls for ...

Airy steel trusses and a new mid-height structural mezzanine add state-of-the-art seismic resistance to an unreinforced brick factory from 1906--preparing it for another century of service.

Structural steel frame buildings are the most common construction style in use for today’s warehouses. Utilizing a “skeleton frame” of vertical steel columns and horizontal I-beams or trusses, the ...

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