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Fenestration and glazing: Seismic performance specification considerations

Construction Specifier

These include columns, joists, purlins, load-bearing walls, floor slabs, and foundations. These include architectural and MEP systems, furniture, fixtures, equipment, and other contents. With IBC 2024, specification professionals and building teams now have a choice to use either the provisions of ASCE/SEI 7-22 or the IBC ’s SDC maps.

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AI fuels data center demand: Can precast concrete keep up?

Construction Specifier

Precast concrete is a desirable material for these buildings for a variety of reasons, whether used for walls, floors, and roof panels in a total precast structure or as an enclosure system. Regardless of the application, precast offers the same off-site construction benefits.

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Pennsylvania Project Team Wrangles with Long-Span Timber Complexities

ENR Construction

Roof construction is also underway with installation of glulam purlins with two layers of plywood fabricated and installed by StructureCraft crews in early summer. The indoor soccer facility includes gable walls framed with glulam columns and wind girts.

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Expansion joint innovation on River Nene viaduct

The Construction Index

One of the features of the new expansion joint is a quick release system so it can be replaced overnight should the need ever arise, significantly reducing disruption. The joint is a modified Tensa Modular LR-LS system, including the use of noise reducing sinus plates, manufactured by Mageba in Switzerland.

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Henley to lead Leeds mill restoration

The Construction Index

Structural reinforcement will use bespoke stainless-steel components fabricated by HZS Stainless Steel , integrating seamlessly with original timber, masonry, and concrete to ensure the building’s long-term stability. This is expected to generate more than 40,000 kWh of renewable energy a year.

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Flexibility Is Key Design Feature of George Mason University Student Center

ENR Construction

This is truly a students-come-first building,” Rose Pascarell, vice president for university life, said in a press release following project groundbreaking in June 2024. Working within an $11-million budget, the team did not envision a traditional concrete or steel structure. We want to be able to come together more easily.

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DBEs kept out of Brent Spence Bridge project, lawsuit says

Construction Dive

Once Walsh and WEB had utilized JDLFs qualifications and expertise, they conspired against JDLF by fabricating fraudulent qualifications for WEBs project manager.” Instead of using a traditional steel truss to support the bridge’s lower deck, both decks will be supported by a cabling system with no steel work connecting them. "As