The International Code Council has approved—as expected—the updated structural building-design standard, written by the American Society of Civil Engineers Structural Engineering Institute, for ...

Performance-based structural fire design of steel frames can eliminate fire protection on up to half of a building’s floor beams, according to a two-year study of PBSFD. Still, structural engineers ...

Negar Elhami Khorasani received the Structural Engineering Institute (SEI) young professional scholarship by the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) earlier this year, and is one of four ...

EAST LANSING, Mich. — Earthquakes and explosions grab the headlines when structures are toppled, but often the Achilles’ heel of engineering is fire. Fire is the follow-up act in disasters, the coup ...

In a world aiming toward sustainability and risk mitigation, the traditional prescriptive method to structural fire safety is becoming less and less viable. Fortunately, new industry resources can ...

Bruneau received the Special Achievement Award for “his groundbreaking work in developing and promoting Speed Core, a concrete-filled composite plate shear wall system that is revolutionizing the ...

Significant attention and research has been given to the protective gear that a firefighter wears. Gear needs to provide a level of protection against the overall thermal environment and products of ...

FWH Fire Wall Hanger Attaches Floor Framing to 2-hour Fire Rated Wall Assemblies in Wood-Frame Construction. FWH Allows Framers to Install the Hangers Before the Drywall is Attached. CHESTERFIELD, Mo.

Earthquakes and explosions grab the headlines when structures are toppled, but often the Achilles' heel of engineering is fire. Fire is the follow-up act in disasters. Yet in a research world awash in ...