This added eight stories and 68,000 sf to the original five-story concrete frame footprint of 2040 Market Street, Philadelphia. Photo: Courtesy Integrity Wall. Among the most notable new construction ...

It says, “The repetitive steel beams … directly support the composite floor deck. They are not part of the primary structural frame but are part of the floor construction. These steel beams ...

With ISL's complex geometry, the second and third floor structural steel floor framing was required to be built around the temporary panel bracing until the composite deck on the third floor was ...

The fundamentals of staggered steel truss frame construction—a method never before used in Chicago—involve a series of floor-height trusses (nine-feet, three-inches for this project) erected in a ...

Light steel frame building (LSFB ... LSFB consists of structured wall panels, trusses and floor joists that are assembled using cold-formed steel sections, which in turn are made from thin ...

If you're going to build an apartment, hotel or assisted living facility, you could stack wood on concrete platforms or use a steel frame. New industry standards aim to assure contractors of the ...

using high-grade timber instead of steel for its frame, will be completed next spring. Timber Lofts, a 60-unit apartment building with ground-floor retail space, is under construction at 300 W.

This course will examine how noncombustible steel deck framing makes it possible to meet stringent building and fire codes in Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI) zones. Because steel is a Class A ...