How to Assemble a World Record
The world’s tallest wooden building is groundbreaking for more than just its height. When Mjøstårnet was to be built, Moelven employed a completely new and untested assembly technique. Outsiders may perhaps think that there is great risk involved in using a new assembly method on such a large and prestigious project. However, following many years of development, we were ready to take a new step,” says Rune Abrahamsen, director at Moelven Limtre. Lego for grown-ups Mjøstårnet will be Moelv...
U.S. Imposes Tariffs on Fabricated Structural Steel Imports from China
Last week, the Office of the United States Trade Representative (USTR) released its list of approximately $16 billion worth of imports from China that will be subject to a 25% tariff as part of the U.S. response to China’s unfair trade practices related to the forced transfer of American technology and intellectual property. The list contains 279 of the original 284 tariff lines proposed, including those AISC requested for inclusion in its two separate testimonies in front of the USTR Section 30...
Video: MIT Mass Timber Design -- Longhouse
MIT Mass Timber Design | Longhouse from Parallel Project on Vimeo.With increasing demands placed on the planet through population growth and urbanization, energy remains one of the biggest challenges of the 21st century. Buildings are one of the largest consumers of global resources and all energy produced, and are primary contributors to greenhouse gases and solid wastes. At moment when the built environment is faced with dramatic shifts, the need for energy-intelligent building prototypes is m...
Bull Moose Tube Assists ASTM International to Create New Standards for Steel Structural Tubes
ST. LOUIS – Bull Moose Tube, a leading manufacturer of steel pipe and tube, has received permission by global standards developer ASTM International to announce the organization’s development of new standards for steel structural tubes. These new standards, covering cold-formed welded high-strength carbon steel, low-alloy steel hollow structural sections (HSS) among others, will be put in place before the end of 2018. For more than a year, Bull Moose Tube Manager of Field Applications M...
Frick Environmental Center in Pittsburgh Receives Living Building certification
(PITTSBURGH ) - The Frick Environmental Center in Pittsburgh has received Living Building Challenge (LBC) Certification, the world’s most rigorous proven performance standard by the International Living Future Institute. A project of the Pittsburgh Parks Conservancy, in partnership with the City of Pittsburgh, it is the first Living Building in the U.S. that is municipally owned and free and open to the public, and one of only 21 buildings worldwide. The new building fully supports its...
Newtecnic and Cambridge University Construction Research Partnership Delivers Concrete Facade Innovation
International building design engineering firm. Newtecnic, and the Engineering Department at the University of Cambridge (UK), have completed a 3-year knowledge transfer partnership (KTP) to develop a new generation of components, load bearing connections and associated design methods for composite concrete building facades. Following this initial project, Newtecnic is continuing and expanding the work in its recently formed Cambridge R&D office and in the US through partnerships with the Uni...
New Willis Tower Antenna Lighting to Recolor Chicago Skyline
How many people does it take to change the antenna light colors at Willis Tower? Now, thanks to a high-tech upgrade, the answer is officially one. Previously, when Willis Tower changed the antenna light color, a crew had to wait for ideal weather conditions (low winds, no rain/snow), travel to the top of the tower and manually place color pallets over every single light. The process took up to four hours. With its recently installed new lighting tech, Willis Tower is now able to do simple ant...
Video: Vintage Empire State Building Footage Highlights Importance of Construction Safety
Empire State Building - Steel Workers from Empire State Building on Vimeo.
New Educare Center Opens in Long Beach, Teaching Children—and Schools—to Look at Learning a New Way
LONG BEACH, Calif.- Long Beach's newest residents are moving in. The opening of Educare Los Angeles at Long Beach marks the culmination of a fast-tracked, year-long effort to build the 31,483-square-foot facility adjacent to Clara Barton Elementary School. Built by American Modular Systems (AMS), the four-building Gen7 campus is state-of-the-art, offering research-based, year-round child care and early education programs that help close the achievement gap between children from disparate socioec...
Western Specialty Contractors Restores Facade of Historic Downtown St. Louis Monogram Building
St. Louis, MO – Western Specialty Contractors - St. Louis Masonry Restoration Branch recently completed a $1.2 million facade restoration of the historic Monogram Building at 1706 Washington Ave. in Downtown St. Louis. Developer Michael Knight, a partner at Revive Capital Development of Kansas City, MO, converted the nine-story brick and terra cotta building, renamed Monogram on Washington, into 168 modern, luxury apartments (112 one-bedroom, 32 two-bedroom and 24 studio), complete with a roo...
Stormwater Interview with Robert Page, P.E., Vice President, HNTB
Santa Barbara County North Branch Jail Expansion
February Issue 2026
