When the Chrysler Building appeared on the Manhattan skyline 90 years ago, it was the most magnificent skyscraper ever built and the tallest in the world, a gleaming testament to American ingenuity ...

Many renovated buildings replace wood and masonry structural elements with steel. The replacement of heavy wooden roof and floor joists with the lighter steel open-web bar-truss joists is a common ...

Thanks to a number of key innovations, steel is playing a greater role in residential high-rises, senior and student housing, and taller mixed-use developments, says architect Jayshree Shah, AIA, ...

DEAR TIM: I’m getting ready to build a large room addition that needs a beam to support the floor joists. I’ve been told that a wood beam will work, but I’ve always seen steel I-beams in other houses.

In this article we will continue to look at building structural systems. Last month we discussed concrete, which is one of the most basic building construction components. To review, concrete is a ...

The Transbay Transit Terminal is shut down through next week. Two cracked steel beams in the $2 billion structure were discovered earlier this week. What caused those beams to crack? KRON4 News asked ...

The company that fabricated the Chrysler Building’s steel punched a hole in my assumption about who supplied it. To me, it only made sense that American Bridge, a subsidiary of mammoth U.S. Steel Corp ...

Some 200 feet high in the city of Boise, sits the final steel beam of what will be Idaho’s tallest building. The beam, signed Wednesday by about 100 people in attendance for the “topping off” ceremony ...

Active chilled beams are HVAC devices composed of primary air ducted supply, hydronic coils, and diffuser slots that provide localized sensible cooling to the space 1. Primary air is induced through ...

What has a 426-seat auditorium, two classrooms with 173 seats each, 20 other classrooms with 37 to 124 seats each, a teaching and learning lab, and one special beam? The $86 million Teaching and ...