designboom

MAY 7, 2022

MIT engineers are taking to nature to study its structures and translate them into wooden buildings. The post MIT engineers use discarded tree forks to build wooden structures appeared first on designboom | architecture & design magazine.

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BD+C

APRIL 21, 2023

The Role of Engineered Wood in Sustainable Structures 1 kcichowicz Fri, 04/21/2023 - 11:23 Sustainability in construction is becoming more important as society moves towards a more sustainable future. Learn about engineered wood’s key role as a green building solution. What Makes a Sustainable Structure?

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Bustler

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

The UK’s Institution of Structural Engineers has announced the winners of the Structural Awards 2022, which seeks to celebrate the role of structural engineers in sustainability, social impact, innovation, and ingenuity. Ten projects were honored, comprising two Supreme Award winners and eight shortlisted works.

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ArchDaily

MARCH 21, 2024

Image © French + Tye The main role of architecture is to create structures that protect us from the environment and create spaces that are safe and comfortable for all types of needs and activities. Building technologies of the past rarely managed, however, to create a complete separation between us and the outside world. Read more »

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Deezen

MAY 5, 2022

The system combines generative design and robotic fabrication to allow tree forks – the pieces of wood where a trunk or branch splits into two – to be used as the Y-shaped nodes that connect straight building elements. MIT's Digital Structures group has built a demo structure using tree forks as joints.

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Architizer

APRIL 30, 2024

They can be material structures that connect two (or more!) Beyond spanning from point A to B, architects are designing bridges as inhabitable structures to build connections between people and places. More than just a building, it fosters community engagement and connection, again, echoing the essence of a “bridge.”

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Deezen

MARCH 17, 2023

Continuing our Timber Revolution series, we look at the Tamedia Office Building by Shigeru Ban – Switzerland's first seven-storey mass-timber structure that was barely legal at the time of its completion in 2013. And engineers were incredulous that such a large wooden structure could function without steel connections."

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e-architect

JANUARY 7, 2022

Max Fordham Engineers, Architects, Architecture, Studio, Projects, Structural Designs, News. Max Fordham Engineering. Contemporary Buildings + Structures Office News. ” – state this British engineering practice. . ” – state this British engineering practice. Max Fordham.

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Architizer

MARCH 11, 2024

Halls are filled with interactive areas teaching us the benefits of urban greening, allowing us to play as net zero town planners or showcasing preserved relics from the early days of internal combustion engines and the marvels of injection molding. Or at least its newest addition, WISDOME.

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The Architecture Designs

OCTOBER 31, 2022

If you are undertaking a new construction project, renovating a home extensively, or carrying out other construction works, you may need to hire a civil engineer, structural engineer, or both. Type of Structure. Several factors determine which professional to hire, and we will look at them below. source: pinterest.com.

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Brandon Donnelly

MARCH 7, 2023

As I mentioned yesterday , I am not a structural engineer. He is Principal at Stephenson Engineering and he was nice enough to answer a few of my questions about soft story buildings (storey if you’re Canadian). BD: What is a soft (or weak) storey building? However, my friend James Cranford is.

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Archinect

JULY 29, 2022

A research team out of the University of Virginia (UVA) has developed a new innovative and sustainable approach to building that utilizes the power of 3D printing to create structures made of soil implanted with seeds.

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BD+C

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

APA – THE ENGINEERED WOOD ASSOCIATION Multifamily Housing Engineered wood’s combination of benefits—from beauty and versatility to sustainability and strength—has made it a popular material for commercial projects such as mixed-use buildings, low-rise office structures and even eight-story mass-timber high rises.

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Deezen

JULY 21, 2022

Architecture studio SPF Architects has completed a sports facility in Los Angeles consisting of two separate buildings that were built using pre-engineered metal structures in order to not disrupt activity at the site. SPF Architects designed atheletic buildings for the Michelle and Barack Obama Sports Complex.

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Archinect

DECEMBER 21, 2022

The American Institute of Steel Construction (AISC) has announced finalists for this year’s vaunted Innovative Design in Engineering and Architecture with Structural Steel (IDEAS²) Awards featuring a total of fifteen entries in the program’s 62nd year.

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BD+C

MAY 15, 2024

Modular adaptive reuse of parking structure grants future flexibility 0 qpurcell Wed, 05/15/2024 - 08:40 Adaptive Reuse The shift away from excessive parking requirements aligns with a broader movement, encouraging development of more sustainable and affordable housing. Hartford, Conn.; and San Jose, Calif., have in common?

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Deezen

AUGUST 22, 2022

High-tech pioneer Tony Hunt, who engineered buildings including the Sainsbury Centre , Waterloo station and Hopkins House , has passed away aged 90. Above: Hunt engineered Hopkins House. Hunt was born in London in 1932 and studied engineering at Westminster Technical College. Photo is by Tim Street-Porter.

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Deezen

OCTOBER 2, 2023

British architecture studio Stanton Williams has designed a 35,000-square-metre academic building for the University College London, located in London's Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park. The studio described the building's material palette as industrial, chosen to evoke the site's industrial history.

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Archinect

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

The Children’s Museum of Eau Claire (CMEC) is a first-of-its-kind structure that demonstrates the innovative usage of Structural Round Timber (SRT). One such firm to help bring this project to life is Madison, Wisconsin-based WholeTrees Structures.

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Bustler

JANUARY 28, 2024

The results of this year’s Innovative Design in Engineering and Architecture with Structural Steel (IDEAS²) Awards have been shared by the American Institute of Steel Construction (AISC) as part of the competition’s 64th edition. A total of six projects were honored by the 2024 edition. Read the full post on Bustler

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Deezen

APRIL 22, 2024

The structure will serve as an educational building for the University of Kansas ( KU ) School of Architecture & Design in Lawrence, Kansas. It will have an all wood structure It will have chamfered edges on all of the corners, creating entrance canopies on the ground floor and terraces up top.

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Harnessing stone as a structural material can make architecture more enjoyable to both build and inhabit argues Tristram Carfrae, an Arup engineer working on the Sagrada Familia , in this Stone Age 2.0 The main benefit of structural stone is that it is a plentiful, natural, low carbon and beautiful material," said Carfrae. "It

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SW Oregon Architect

JANUARY 7, 2024

The latest is the new Health Professions Building (HPB) for Lane Community College. For all intents and purposes, we have functioned as a single office on the Health Professions Building project rather than as two separate firms. These metrics were: The degree to which the new building succeeds as a tool for teaching and learning.

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Archinect

APRIL 11, 2022

The University of Virginia (UVA) campus has become the showground for an array of creative structures built from natural materials. Penn State assistant architecture professor Benay Gürsoy Toykoç designed structures made from mycelium blocks. “It is both old-school and new-school,” MacDonald said.

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

US studio CLB Architects has created a retreat in rural Wyoming that has three wood-clad structures, with a creek running underneath the primary residence. Located on a 35-acre (14-hectare) property near the town of Wilson, the home was envisioned as a series of "tectonic structures" set within a diverse ecosystem.

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Archinect

OCTOBER 27, 2022

Moss Structural Engineers and the Toronto Metropolitan University announce the winners of its now-returned, in-person, annual TimberFever student design-build competition. He added, "I wanted to give students the opportunity to work with tools, learn about wood, and introduce collaboration between engineers and architects."

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Archinect

JANUARY 18, 2024

Thanks to this cooperation, in the end, not only the Control building serving the flood gate and ship lock, but also the bridge crossing the dam and the reinforced concrete structure itself could become an arch.

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Archinect

MAY 10, 2023

UC San Diego has hosted the tallest full-scale seismic building test on an earthquake simulator. The 10-story building, made of cross-laminated timber, was tested on what the organizers say is the world’s largest outdoor shake table.

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Santa Cruz Architect

OCTOBER 19, 2023

In an era when sustainability, cost-efficiency, and resource conservation are paramount concerns in the construction industry, Advanced Framing, also known as Optimum Value Engineering (OVE), has emerged as a revolutionary construction method. It involves a departure from conventional practices that often overbuild structures.

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ArchDaily

MAY 20, 2024

Courtesy of Ilia Salek A cornerstone of architectural innovation for centuries, concrete has transformed the structural capabilities of buildings worldwide. As one of the more versatile and durable building materials, concrete has aided architects and engineers in pushing the traditional boundaries of design.

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Deezen

MAY 22, 2024

The building is situated in Seattle 's Fremont neighbourhood, known for its bohemian character. Robert Hutchinson Architecture has converted a 1950s Seattle building into an event space The venue's name stems from the owner's love of automobiles, along with its location along a street called Stone Way.

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BD+C

JUNE 5, 2023

How to properly assess structural wind damage 0 dbarista Mon, 06/05/2023 - 16:17 Engineers Properly assessing wind damage can identify vulnerabilities in a building's design or construction, which could lead to future damage or loss, writes Matt Wagner, SE, Principal and Managing Director with Walter P Moore.

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Deezen

JANUARY 26, 2024

Studio Bark developed the Shingles project to find structural uses for otherwise unusable bits of timber Spindles began when the studio was hired to build a family home on a wooded site in Buckinghamshire in the southeast of England. "We We were there in midsummer.

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Architecture Lab

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

The difference between architects and structural engineers is not easy to describe at first. If you think about it, both job profiles deal with designing buildings. So if both these titles deal with the same work, why is there a distinction between them anyway?

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Archinect

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

degrees Celsius at noon, and has the potential to reduce a mid-rise apartment building's yearly carbon emissions by 10 percent. The technology was developed by a research team at the University of Maryland , led by Distinguished University Professor Liangbing Hu in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering.

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ArchDaily

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

As a construction material, however, when put under enough directional force along its grain, sawn timber is structurally unstable, so deemed unsuitable under higher loads. By crossing the direction of the grains, CLT achieves a far higher level of structural rigidity along both axes. So what’s new?

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aasarchitecture

DECEMBER 7, 2023

O’Connor Building for Engineering and Science is now open. News & World Report and the O’Connor Building will only elevate this standing. “We looked beyond the boundaries of the building to transform a core location on this important, historic campus,” said SOM Design Principal Javier Arizmendi.

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