Nadine Post

The TallWood researchers expect to publish design guidelines by the end of the year for the resilient post-tensioned wall system.

<p>After snags and a redesign, the team working on arresting significant future settlement of the 645-ft-tall condominium tower has declared the $100-million fix a success.</p>

Veteran structural engineer Don Davies has donned an owner-developer's hat to demonstrate how to drastically reduce embodied carbon in buildings.

<p>Rules are designed to reduce the sizable carbon footprint of the ubiquitous construction material.</p>

<p>The work on the Coral Canyon tank was described as ‘way outside the box.’</p>

<p>Field test of portland cement-free binder for concrete shows promise, says structural engineer.</p>

<p>The Microsoft Thermal Energy Center, a groundbreaking geothermal heating and cooling system that serves the buildings of the tech giant’s 72-acre East Campus Modernization outside Seattle, was truly two exotic jobs wrapped into one.</p>

<p>The 58,000-sq-ft PAE Living Building in Portland, Ore., is the first privately developed speculative office building fully certified under the rigorous Living Building Challenge of the International Living Future Institute, and one of only 35 fully certified Living Buildings in the world. </p>

<p>The PAE Living Building is the 35th building in the world to earn full certification from the Living Building Challenge, the International Living Future Institute’s rigorous sustainability program.</p><br>

<p>Work on the slender tower would not begin for two years, the council was told.</p>