Many renovated buildings replace wood and masonry structural elements with steel. The replacement of heavy wooden roof and floor joists with the lighter steel open-web bar-truss joists is a common ...

Trusses are a fundamental tool in an engineer’s toolbox — a structurally simple way to transfer weight from one part of a roof to the walls or columns that are designed to withstand the effects of ...

SCHOFIELD - The Milwaukee Bucks’ arena project will reach a milestone Tuesday morning, one that will extend to Merrill Iron & Steel, a local company that has supplied the most critical elements of the ...

Bethlehem Steel Corp.’s Sparrows Point plant stands to benefit from a new joint venture with a Florida building-materials company to expand the use of steel in homes and commercial buildings. Under ...

As Texans like to say, Wes Farr wasn’t born here, but he got here as quick as he could. After he graduated from Emporia State University in Emporia, Kansas, with an engineering degree, he signed on ...

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The American Iron and Steel Institute (AISI) has published three new cold-formed steel framing research reports: 1) “RP15-3: Advancing Seismic Simulation of Cold-Formed Steel Framed Buildings,” 2) ...

THIS little book is intended to serve the purposes of students in mechanical and electrical engineering, who desire to have some knowledge of the methods of design adopted in civil engineering, and ...

The new enclosure is flanked on two sides by the L-shaped walls of the house and on one side by an original freestanding brick wall. A new glass wall incorporates a pair of motorised glass entrance ...