SAN FRANCISCO — Acting Wednesday on the 95th anniversary of the San Francisco earthquake of 1906, experts from the Federal Emergency Management Agency called for new quake-resistant design and ...

The American Institute of Steel Construction (AISC) has released the first-ever set of U.S. recommendations for hybrid steel frames with mass timber floors, according to a news release. Design Guide ...

A team in earthquake-prone Seattle is daring to deliver an 850-ft-tall “proof of concept” for a composite structural-steel frame, instead of a steel frame around a reinforced concrete core. For the ...

Builders of one of California’s largest transit-oriented developments (TODs) are crediting the use of an innovative pre-engineered, light-gauge metal-framing system for keeping the $400-million-plus ...

Research at Case Western Reserve University has found that buildings that rock during an earthquake and return to plumb would withstand seismic shaking better than structural designs commonly used ...

On the 95 anniversary of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, which levelled nearly 500 city blocks and killed 3,000 people, a U.S. agency has released a study suggesting that some modern steel-framed ...

Modern steel buildings have long been considered among the most sturdy in the event of a major earthquake. But a model of a massive quake in Southern California has sparked debate among scientists and ...

Focused on Condensation, Air Sealing, and Heat Flow Cool in the summer. Warm in the winter. Dry all the time.” — Jonathan Barber HOUSTON, TX, UNITED STATES, January 2, 2026 /EINPresswire.com/ — New ...

Hot-dip galvanised substrate is produced on continuous zinc coating lines from either cold-rolled (thickness range 0.27mm to 2. mm) or hot-rolled (thickness 2.01mm to 3.0mm) steel substrate in coil ...