The American Institute of Steel Construction (AISC) has released the first-ever set of U.S. recommendations for hybrid steel frames with mass timber floors, according to a news release.. Design Guide ...

Keywords: Earthquake engineering; Simultaneous story yielding; Axial force demand; Column design; Wave propagation; Seismic design; Multistory buildings; Shear buildings; Pulse excitation; Earthquake ...

Toward that end, behind its darkly tinted glass exterior, the six-story, 116,000-square-foot structure, which meets the ground with steel V-shaped columns, has a frame composed of glulam columns and ...

Timber frame and post and beam construction are both beautiful methods of constructing a house. Most people don't know the difference between the two types. Included here is a short comparison of ...

Katsuya Fukushima and Hiroko Tominaga of FT Architects have completed a residence called Column and Slab in Tokyo, Japan. The three-storey building is situated on a narrow 5 x 14 metre site. Eight ...