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SFPE Announces Program and Speakers for Upcoming Engineering Solutions Symposium for Fire Safety and Sustainable Building Design

Civil + Structural Engineer

This packed symposium will explore design concepts, tools, and approaches for fire-safe buildings, and highlight the role of fire safety in sustainable design and education. The event will also present insight into external living walls, battery/energy storage systems, façade systems, photovoltaics, mass timber, and more.

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Supporting Resiliency with Optimized Metal Building Systems

Civil + Structural Engineer

With increasing urgency, building owners, architects and contractors are turning to metal buildings to deliver resilient, robust and safe buildings to better mitigate risk. “In Pros, AIA, MBA, CPD Director of Design, DS Architecture, Cleveland. According to Dr. W.

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KAI Designs and Builds New Urban League Senior Living Center in St. Louis

Civil + Structural Engineer

Funded through a combination of federal, state, and local grants, along with in-kind donations, the center exemplifies the community’s resilience and commitment to positive change. This building is actually a result of years of hard work, dedication, commitment and vision of many people. Florissant Ave.,

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From NHERI TallWood to Converging Design: Building Towards Resilient Structures

Strong Tie

Simpson Strong-Tie is participating in NHERI Converging Design , the third phase of testing a six-story mass timber building on the NHERI UCSD shake table. This project follows up on the testing of a ten-story mass timber building with the NHERI TallWood project. Learn more about this project and our live testing event.

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Make It Resilient 2024 Student Contest Encourages New Ways to Build for Extreme Environments

Autodesk Construction Cloud

With its latest annual Make It Real program, Autodesk is challenging high school students to imagine how to design and build a habitat for an extreme environment. For the Make It Resilient 2024 contest , any extreme environment such as a desert, rainforest, deep ocean site, areas prone to flooding, or even another planet can be chosen.

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The Resilience of Engineered Fabric Buildings against Nature’s Extremes

Civil Manage

We’re not talking about any ordinary building, but about engineered fabric buildings, specially designed to endure the whims of Mother Nature. Picture a structure that pops up in the heart of the wilderness, withstanding the fury of a snowstorm or the scorching heat of the desert.

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Simpson Strong-Tie To Introduce New Yield-Link® Brace Connection and Resilient Building Systems at the 2023 NASCC Steel Conference

Civil + Structural Engineer

The Steel Conference is the premier annual event for designers, fabricators, erectors, and construction professionals involved in the design and construction of steel buildings and bridges.