A homeowner in a 40-year-old house notices that the doors on one side of the hallway no longer latch. A stair-step crack has opened in the brick veneer, and...
Most projects arrive at our office with the structural material already decided, and about a third of the time the decision was made for the wrong reason. A developer...
You have a set of structural drawings in front of you. The sheets are covered with grids, abbreviations, callouts, and dimensions, and none of it looks like the tidy...
A shipping container looks like the perfect shortcut. It arrives as a sealed steel box, it stacks nine high on a cargo ship, and it survives ocean storms for...
On May 16, 1968, a small gas explosion in a kitchen on the 18th floor of Ronan Point, a 22-story precast concrete apartment block in London, blew out a...
Picture a building during a strong earthquake or a windstorm. The walls and columns get most of the attention, but the floors and the roof are doing quiet, critical...
Many homeowners and even some first-time developers assume that the drawings their architect produces are the only plans a project needs. Then the permit application stalls, and the building...
Picture a quiet two story home on a Saturday afternoon. The roof carries snow from the prior night, the upper floor holds a king bed, two adults, a dresser,...
The structural engineering profession is advancing at a pace that would have been difficult to imagine even five years ago. This week’s developments span additive manufacturing, landmark project milestones,...