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 ...

Scan the skyline of New York City and it’s almost everywhere you look. Same thing with Chicago and Philadelphia and just about any big city where the buildings poke into the sky. Everyone knows ...

Steel beams supporting the 16th floor of the ill-fated Hard Rock Hotel project in downtown New Orleans were so “grossly underdesigned” that the deadly collapse of the unfinished building “was waiting ...

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, ...

On Tuesday, state representatives, trustees, college leadership, construction representatives, and instructors signed the final steel beam for the Transportation Technology/STEM building.

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 ...

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 ...

A structural engineer who helped demolish the partially collapsed Hard Rock Hotel last year says video of the deadly disaster shows the building’s steel failed at the 16th floor of the 18-story ...