The first steel roof truss was installed early Monday at the Athletics’ Las Vegas ballpark. This marks a major milestone on the $2 billion project. The huge truss, weighing about 200 tons, was ...

The first steel roof truss was installed early Monday at the Athletics’ Las Vegas ballpark, marking a major milestone on the $2 billion project. The massive truss, which weighs about 200 tons, was ...

The new enclosure is flanked on two sides by the L-shaped walls of the house and on one side by an original freestanding brick wall. A new glass wall incorporates a pair of motorised glass entrance ...

Early in 2002, Craig McNay was having lunch with his old friend Bill Gerdes, a steel fabricator from Quincy, Ill., when he mentioned that he was serving as the owner's rep for a Miglin Properties ...

Traditional damage analysis of steel truss structures requires detailed finite element meshing, and there is a coupling between stress-strain and damage solving, resulting in complex damage analysis ...

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The construction of the $1.8 billion, 65,000-seat domed Las Vegas stadium hit a snag last week, but officials say it’s nothing to be alarmed about. One of the massive steel canopy trusses was ...

Using 80-ksi steel in upper perimeter columns—a first in the U.S.—helped the design team reduce the total steel by almost 20% for 320 S. Canal, a 51-floor office tower under construction in Chicago's ...

A new analysis could help architects and builders reduce the carbon footprint of truss structures, the crisscrossing struts that bolster bridges, towers, and buildings. Buildings are a big contributor ...

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