Jerry Hajjar is the CDM Smith Professor, University Distinguished Professor, and Department Chair in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Northeastern University. His research and ...

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 ...

In modern architecture, high-rise building and skyscrapers was proposed as one of the effective factors to urban problems. This proposed method causes so much problems in these cities conditions such ...

The National Institute of Standards and Technology started working toward its goal of a wind-load standard for tornado-resistant design after a tornado devastated Joplin, Mo., on May 22, 2011. A ...

Office-to-residential conversion seems like a simple solution to a problem. Nationwide, office vacancies stand at 17%, with some big cities—San Francisco, Houston, Austin—topping 30%, while the U.S.

In Los Angeles’s Chinatown, LEVER Architecture has refashioned a windowless warehouse and its subterranean parking garage into 4.5 floors of office space, where the connection between indoors and ...

TEMPE, Ariz., Jan. 28, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- The Structural Insulated Panel Association (SIPA) announced the winners of the 2026 Building Excellence Awards at its annual meeting in Tempe, Arizona, ...

“Can you help me design my residential tower? It's 30 stories and located in Brooklyn, New York.” ChatGPT’s response may be surprising. Given that the bot has no architectural experience, and is ...