Two months ago, the foundation was poured for CUBE, a 2,200-sf, two-story building on the premises of Technical University Dresden in Germany, that claims to be the world’s first building made ...

When the National Bank of Kuwait first conceived its new headquarters more than a decade ago, it wanted to make a statement about passive design with a soaring tower that could withstand the extreme ...

Barratt Redrow’s building safety provision has topped £1bn during the last financial year due to issues found with reinforced concrete frame buildings. Legacy issues with reinforced concrete frame ...

The Concrete Reinforcing Steel Institute (CRSI) has completed a comprehensive technical publication appropriately titled, Design and Detailing of Low-Rise Reinforced Concrete Buildings. The webinar ...

Keywords: Lightly Reinforced Concrete Buildings, Shaking Table Tests, Detailing, Reinforcement, Eastern United States, Column Reinforcement Ratio, Joint Confinement, Lap Splices, and Earthquake ...

Structural materials have not changed all that much since reinforced concrete was introduced to construction in the late 19th century, but a fiber-reinforced, mineral composite system from a Florida ...

Keywords: Shaking Table Tests, Lightly Reinforced Structures, Joint Confinement, Gravity Load Design, Beam Reinforcement, Reinforced Concrete Structures, Failure Mechanisms, Existing Buildings, ...