The Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat announced in Dubai that current codes of practice around the world are inadequate for the seismic design of tall buildings and has called for a more ...
The building envelope, the barrier between the interior and exterior environments, plays a central role in enhancing energy efficiency, occupant comfort, and overall building performance. In both ...
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – Purdue engineers are taking building possibilities to new heights with the university’s role in the research and development of an innovative high-rise construction process.
A shadow may soon be cast across Ohio State’s North Campus. Landmark Properties, a Georgia-based developer, submitted plans for a new 16-story high-rise building at 2160 N. High St. to the University ...
The operating life and life span of buildings are often far apart. If a property is no longer fit for purpose, it is usually demolished even though it would still be perfectly usable. Even in the ...
Bier Stube, a longtime campus bar that closed in September 2024, will soon give way to Columbus’ first mass-timber high-rise building. Harbor Bay Ventures, an Illinois-based timber development company ...
Skyscraper-filled cityscapes bring to mind the sleek look of steel and glass, but the use of mass timber in building is putting a softer spin on skylines. Besides being a sustainable material, wood ...
The Chinese government remains silent about why it has permitted construction to resume on a 117-story skyscraper in Tianjin city nearly a decade after it was ...
The famous observation decks of 20th-century buildings—the Empire State Building, Rockefeller Center, the World Trade Center—were low-tech but thrilling open-air platforms ringed by coin-operated ...
“Today, a high-rise like 740 River Drive in a neighborhood like Highland Park would draw such indignation from area residents that a developer would have to be delusional to even propose it,” wrote ...
The first tall building erected in Charleston sits empty on Broad Street, a victim of water and time. Everyone was ordered out of the Peoples Building on Aug. 19 after an engineer determined the steel ...