In a typical construction cycle, sturdy slabs are treated as waste once a building ...

Reflecting changing currents in engineering design and material availability, the American Concrete Institute has updated its 318 standard to ACI 318-25, with a new sustainability guide and updated ...

Description: Principles of prestressed concrete. Prestressing systems, end anchorage, and loss of prestress. Analysis and design of sections for flexure, shear, bond ...

Before you even think about raising the walls of a new backyard shed, you need a solid foundation. Learn how to pour a ...

Taller buildings get a bad rap. New research from U of T Engineering’s Centre for the Sustainable Built Environment (CSBE) has found that while adding height does slightly increase embodied emissions, ...

In Times Square, buildings must be larger than life. Twenty-two percent of every New York tourist dollar is spent in Times Square, and it receives 400,000 visitors per day, according to the TSX ...

Walking the floor of the National Association of Home Builders’ International Builders Show in Las Vegas this past January, many attendees stopped in their tracks when they came across two ...

Furnace tests were conducted on large-scale loaded and restrained reinforced concrete tunnel slabs to evaluate the level of fire damage. Extreme fire events in tunnels may have catastrophic ...

Vapor retarders are sheet materials used below slab-on-ground floors to limit the amount of moisture that migrates into and upward through concrete slabs. If unchecked, moisture can cause floor ...