At the east side of the Clay Street Men’s Assessment Center building, a seven-foot wide passageway leads past the neighboring property to a 20-foot by 60-foot open yard facing the building’s main entrance. Working within a limited budget, the Urbahn team…
Video: Robot Legs Move Shanghai Building
Engineers in China have come up with a remarkable way of moving an 85-year-old building. Rather than demolish and rebuild the structure, they attached…
CU Denver new City Heights Residence Hall celebrates official “topping
JE Dunn/Stantec team to add first on-campus hall for first-year students Denver, CO- NYSE, TSX:STN- The University of Colorado Denver (CU Denver)…
Brockville General Hospital celebrates opening of Donald B. Green Tower
Brockville General Hospital celebrated the opening of its new Donald B. Green Tower and the completion of its Phase II Redevelopment Project recently. The inpatient tower, which has begun accepting patients, provides care teams with the up-to-date facilities…
CFSEI Publishes Series of Beginner Technical Notes
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Cold-Formed Steel Engineers Institute (CFSEI) has developed a series of beginner Technical Notes for students and young engineers that provide fundamental information relating to cold-formed steel design. The series, which was authored…
More Than 130 Building Projects Turn to LEED’s Safety First Credits in Response to COVID-19
Green building strategies are helping companies develop and measure healthy, sustainable and resilient reopening efforts WASHINGTON, D.C. – As companies, organizations and governments focus on safe and healthy reopening plans in response to the pandemic,…
Construction to commence on Australia’s largest commercial microgrid
An IKEA store in Adelaide, South Australia will soon become a community microgrid supplying energy from its rooftop array. The IKEA Australia Clean Energy Transformation Project will transition IKEA Adelaide to operating with 100 per cent renewable energy…
GSA & DOE Seek Technologies for Healthy & Resilient Buildings
The U.S. General Services Administration’s Proving Ground (GPG) program, in collaboration with the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), has issued a Request for Information (RFI) to obtain responses from vendors and other interested parties on resource-efficient…
Performance-Based Structural Fire Design Guidance Published by American Society of Civil Engineers
Available to download for free RESTON, Va. – The American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) Structural Engineering Institute (SEI) has published Performance-Based Structural Fire Design: Exemplar Designs of Four Regionally Diverse Buildings…
AISI Publishes Two New Cold-Formed Steel Research Reports
Photo Credit: Don Allen WASHINGTON, D.C. – The American Iron and Steel Institute (AISI) has published two new cold-formed steel research reports: “RP20-4: Cold-Formed Steel Bracing Design Using Combinations of Discrete and Sheathing Bracing,”…
