The most polluting part of a building is hiding underfoot. Floors account for more than 40% of most multi-story buildings’ total mass, and many of the surfaces that hold up office floors and ...

Researchers spent months meticulously recreating the long concrete floors supported by steel beams commonly found in high-rise office buildings, only to set the structures ablaze. These experiments ...

The original mission and one of the continuing core efforts of the GIS / CAD Office is to archive and provide access to the record construction documents that have been used to build the CU Boulder ...

DEAR TIM: I’m in the planning stages of building a new home, and I don’t want bounce in my floors. My last home felt like a trampoline, yet it was built to code. My new home is going to have a massive ...

This TreeHugger is a huge fan of Broad Sustainable Building's prefab building technology, and I have been impressed by the passion of its chairman Zhang Yue, who is trying to build the world's tallest ...

Authorized users can view online floor plans for all UB buildings. Secure access is required to access the UB floor plans. You may need to run the Cisco Secure Client prior to logging in, depending on ...

LANCASTER – Walking along any downtown street, it's easy to look in a window and see what's going on with the first floor of a building. It might house a business or it might be vacant. But what about ...

Information from this article was first published in Demolition Magazine and is being reused with permission from the National Demolition Association. When Veit & Company Inc. won the bid to demolish ...

Engineers and technicians at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) spent months meticulously recreating the long concrete floors supported by steel beams commonly found in ...