The Audrain Building on Newport’s celebrated Bellevue Avenue was designed by New York architect Bruce Price in the early 1900s with intricate exterior detailing that exudes an enduring sense of luxury ...

Timber frames, for so long limited to the low-rise residential sector, have begun to break into commercial and higher-rise uses, thanks to technological breakthroughs. What does the future hold? For ...

Performance-based structural fire design of steel frames can eliminate fire protection on up to half of a building’s floor beams, according to a two-year study of PBSFD. Still, structural engineers ...

Welcome to building.co.uk. This site uses cookies. Read our policy. The first and second Steel Insight articles addressed the challenges of realistic cost estimating of structural steelwork through ...

While you may be thinking that steel is only used for skyscrapers and extremely large agricultural buildings, this is not the case and it can be used for a wide range of buildings from garages to even ...

When I told my mother and grandmother in 2003 that I was selected to do the structural engineering on a new apartment building in Ballard, they were not too thrilled. The new building was slated to ...

Following-up on last month's quick review of the five basic types of building construction, according to National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) 220, Standard on Types of Building Construction ...

This month we will continue our discussion regarding building collapse with a look at the different types of building construction, and some specific collapse inherent hazards that are associated with ...