This month we will discuss some of the common practices of wood-frame construction and some of the building code requirements surrounding it. Many commercial buildings that use steel and masonry ...

Fire protection typically accounts for around 10-15% of the overall steel frame cost in commercial multi-storey buildings, so the requirements and approach adopted can have a significant impact on how ...

Milwaukee's first building created with an unusual construction method, using high-grade timber instead of steel for its frame, will be completed next spring. Timber Lofts, a 60-unit apartment ...

Steel Insight Article 3 analysed two typical commercial buildings to provide cost and programme guidance when considering the options available during the design and selection of a structural frame.

This isn't your great-great-grandfather's office building — even though it will be constructed with a frame fashioned mainly from wood, instead of concrete and steel. The unusual seven-story ...

Perched upon a mountain a short drive away from Seattle, Washington, the Cantilever House combines a small-scale commercial ... building elements — a prefabricated steel structural frame and ...

But more significantly, its developers claim that the Bullitt Center is the greenest commercial building ... which is used alongside steel frame. The building is therefore ahead of the curve ...