STRUCTURE Articles

Designers must balance the sometimes conflicting needs of gravity, fire safety, and seismic drift.

Timber-concrete composite, or TCC, framing systems provide a unique opportunity to leverage components that are inherent to mass timber buildings to create a strong, stiff floor system that could not be achieved using timber alone.

To view the figures and tables associated with this article, please refer to the flipbook above. Tanya de Hoog, 2024 President of the Institution of Structural Engineers and Chief Engineer, Eminence and Innovation Officer at Aurecon, is a structural engineer […]

When I was just beginning my career, a colleague invited me to an SEAOI dinner meeting at the famed Cliff Dwellers Club on South Michigan Avenue overlooking Grant Park in Chicago. Having nothing scheduled for that evening, I said yes. […]

The seismic retrofit of the Egyptian Theatre in Los Angeles serves as a model for balancing modern engineering demands with the preservation of architectural heritage.

A 100-home, 3D-printed community in Texas showcases structural innovations in homebuilding.

A 10-story parking structure in South San Francisco achieves efficiency and resilience beyond the code-level life-safety performance objective with a precast concrete hybrid moment frame system.

Successful implementation of aggressive low-carbon goals happens with clear, early communication between all parties.

On June 14, 2024, one day before the Arizona legislature was scheduled to adjourn, Arizona House Bill 2091 passed, and the Arizona Board of Technical Registration (AZBTR or the Board) was continued for another six years and is now scheduled to terminate on July 1, 2030. However, the Board is now only allowed to investigate and take disciplinary or enforcement action resulting from a complaint if the complainant either: 1) has or had a contractual relations with the person who is the subject of the complaint at the time of the complaint, or 2) was harmed by the alleged misconduct or witnessed the outcome of the misconduct during the course of that person’s contractual duties with complainants.

The coordination between design and construction professionals stands as a cornerstone of successful facade design and construction at the Studio Museum in Harlem.

A collaborative means and methods design brought efficiency and safety to the reclad of the Empire State Building Floor 102 Observation deck.

Leaders from structural engineering software firms share their thoughts and analysis regarding the trends in software and AI.