When buildings collapse killing hundreds – or thousands – of people, it’s a tragedy. It’s also an important engineering problem. The 1995 collapse of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma ...

Shih-Ho Chao receives funding from National Science Foundation. When buildings collapse killing hundreds – or thousands – of people, it’s a tragedy. It’s also an important engineering problem. The ...

Metal building system builders have an option to use straight columns or tapered columns to hold up the structure. In many metal building applications, straight columns may have more steel than they ...

“When one is surrounded by these columns, one can ideally begin to imagine an architecture that is conceived using such an algorithmic approach,” the designer tells us. Hansmeyer has installed four ...

Prepare to be amazed by a revolutionary approach to building concrete columns that pushes the boundaries of traditional construction. In this video, we reveal an extraordinary technique for creating ...

In the Colombian city of Medellin, a new headquarters is being constructed for the Empresa de Desarrollo Urbano (Urban Development Company), combining optimal thermal performance with local urban ...