How Shear Walls Work to Keep Buildings Standing
While looking over drawings of building plans, I noticed how some walls were marginally thicker than other walls in the...
Reinforced Concrete vs Steel – How Engineers decide?
I have always wondered what criterion drives architects to choose reinforced concrete vs steel for a building’s structure. Some buildings...
Why Skyscrapers Sway in the Wind
Growing up in the bay area, I was always one drive away from large buildings in that dominated the San...
Structural Failures – How Engineers Learn from them
With the vast amount of infrastructure around the world, several collapses have happened and likely will continue to happen. Rather...
La Niña and The Strangely Warm Winter Week
I recently recorded some data from my personal weather station that was very odd for this time of year. During...
Why Construction Sequence matters?
After structural designs are ready, a building must be built up to its standards. At first, I assumed all that...
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