Structurally, the Wrigley is a typical steel-frame Chicago high-rise of its period, with fifty caissons encased in concrete ...

The next step is bringing the innovation to commercialization. Engineers develop unbelievable new method for making skyscrapers earthquake-proof: 'The technology works' first appeared on The Cool Down ...

Many modern devices—from cellphones and computers to electric vehicles and wind turbines—rely on strong magnets made from ...

Designed by famed architect William Le Baron Jenney and completed in 1885, it rose 10 stories (and eventually 12, after an ...

A YouTuber who specializes in domino feats broke a Guinness World Record when she and her team assembled the world's tallest ...

Neutral Edison, a 31-story mixed-use tower in Milwaukee, will break the record set by another apartment complex in the state ...

A 10-story building made from cold-formed steel held up to a generated earthquake by the earthquake shake table at UC San ...

And surprisingly, a large part of the steel used in this skyscraper was supplied by India’s Tata Group. Tata provided around 39,000 tonnes of steel to help build this massive structure.

Toward that end, behind its darkly tinted glass exterior, the six-story, 116,000-square-foot structure, which meets the ground with steel V-shaped columns, has a frame composed of glulam columns and ...

Tim Gokhman, one of the developers of Ascent, says building costs are comparable to more traditional structures, but he found that building with wood has advantages over steel and concrete.

All structural steel sections have some fire resistance, which increases with mass. Unprotected steelwork is usually accepted to have 15 minutes’ fire resistance. The ability of a component or ...