Advantages of Concrete Retaining Walls
A retaining wall is generally created around a residential plot to confine the area. However, the main purpose of building such a wall is to level the ground and maintain the natural slope of that place. This is done to make the ground apt for gardening or...
SteelSmart Framer – Build 116 Released!
Applied Science International, LLC (ASI) & The Steel Network, Inc. (TSN) are excited to announce the release of Build 116 for our new SteelSmart® Framer BIM software for Light Steel Framing. SteelSmart Framer makes it possible to quickly...
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Specifying Safe Demolition
Every day, old structures are demolished to make room for new and improved buildings, bridges, and other structures. More often than we would like, during the course of these demolitions, things do not go as planned and loss or...
The Applied Element Method and the modelling of both in-plane and out-of-plane response of URM walls
TThe Applied Element Method (AEM) is a relatively recent addition to the discrete elements methods family. Initially conceived to model blast events and concrete structures, its use in the modelling of masonry structures subjected to earthquake actions is steadily...
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Recent Articles
Avoiding Responsibilities
Lawsuits in the modern age are a dime-a-dozen. However, lawsuits involving a former mobster, a fatal structural collapse, and a prestigious United States university are a bit more rare. Columbia University’s controversial building projects in Harlem, one of New York’s...
Media versus Builders
The new San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge (left), still under construction Caltrans, the name for the California Department of Transportation, has called for the retraction of a recent Sacramento Bee investigative piece that claims the new San Francisco-Oakland Bay...
The Structural Integrity of Historical Structures
The recent earthquake in Italy has a reported death toll of 25, making it the most deadly quake to strike the region since the 2009 earthquake that leveled the city of L’Aquila and killed over 300. Both quakes highlight a serious problem faced by experts, scientists...
An Expensive View
A modern apartment with a view of central park How much would you pay for a duplex penthouse apartment overlooking Central Park in downtown New York City? If the number thought of is more than $115 million dollars, then the One57, a 90-storey residential skyscraper in...
Green Above Grime
Recently, Structural News brought you the story of the Bethlehem Steel Administration Building and its slated demolition. The building sits over a large swath of land which at one time housed a steel manufacturing plant that in the mid-1960s employed 20,000 American...
The Luck of the Irish?
The Anglo Irish Bank Building, located on the North Wall of Dublin’s Docklands, has undergone an extraordinary number of setbacks in its going-on-five-years of construction. The headquarters building project began as an expensive, hi-tech testament to the bank’s...
Recent Deck Collapse Highlights Safety Concerns
A recent, memorial day deck collapse in Atlanta has underscored the need for progress in the area of deck safety. 7 People were injured Sunday, May 27th when a deck that was holding a weekend celebration to kick off the official start of summer suddenly collapsed....
Revolutionary Structural Analysis Tool Passes DTRA Tests with Flying Colors
Blast Column Simulation Marking an important milestone in the world of engineering and demolitions software, Applied Science International’s (ASI) mathematical and technological breakthrough has been approved after a grueling “Phase I” of the US Defense Threat...
Engaging Children in Construction
Few toys are able to excite children as much about the construction industry as Rokenbok’s toys have for the past 17 years. A combination of build-it-yourself Legos and remote controlled construction vehicles, these toys are educating a new generation of children in...
To Demolish or Preserve
(Left) The Bethlehem Steel Admin Building in 1908. (Right) The Bethlehem Steel Admin Building as of 2007. One of the most unique characteristics of the demolition industry is the sheer amount of community feedback, and often resistance, that any given demolition...
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