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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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New BJC Health Tower Breaks Ground in St. Louis

Civil + Structural Engineer

Louis area, Barnes-Jewish Health Systems (BJC) undertook a long-term, campus wide renewal project. Because of the ever-evolving expectations for new healthcare facilities to provide visitors and patients with optimal comfort, the plans for the new tower included unique yet challenging design elements.

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What Is a Retaining Wall | Types of Retaining Walls | How Retaining Walls Work | Retaining Wall Detail | Retaining Wall Anchoring Retaining Wall Systems

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What Is a Retaining Wall? A retaining wall is a design of a structure ; it is built when there is a desired change in ground elevation and to resist the lateral pressure of soil that exceeds the repose angle of the soil. At different levels on the two sides supporting soil laterally retaining, walls are used.

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The Full Scale House 3D Printed by Robotic Arms Completes in Muscatine 

Civil + Structural Engineer

Slashing Costs by Tens of Thousands, RIC Technology Revolutionizes 3D Construction Muscatine, Iowa – The second 3D-printed house in Muscatine has completed construction by the leading 3D construction company Alquist 3D, powered by RIC Technology’s cutting-edge robotic arm based 3D printing system.

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University of Nevada, Reno researchers to participate in world’s tallest full-scale building seismic testing on earthquake shake table

Civil + Structural Engineer

Buildings made of mass timber – layers of wood bonded together – are gaining popularity as greener and faster alternatives to concrete and steel structures. National Science Foundation. The key feature of the building is a post-tensioned rocking wall system built from mass timber panels.

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STV Partners with San Diego MTS to Revamp Vital Transit Infrastructure Systems

Civil + Structural Engineer

The project team, led by STV as the overall task lead and subconsultant to Chen Ryan Associates (CRA), will design plans to replace the existing TPSS while minimizing impacts and delays to the system, maintaining the operational efficiency of MTS’s extensive 65-mile track network and keeping the system’s 300,000 weekday trips on schedule.

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Simpson Strong-Tie Participates in 7.7 Moment Magnitude Earthquake Test of 10-Story Mass Timber Building

Civil + Structural Engineer

Pleasanton, Calif. — Simpson Strong-Tie , the leader in engineered structural connectors and building solutions, announced today the successful completion of a series of seismic tests on the tallest building yet subjected to earthquake simulations. Seismic tests simulating both the 1994 magnitude 6.7