Rainier Square Tower, under construction in Seattle, is one of the buildings considered for the development of a performance-based wind design manual for tall buildings. Photo Courtesy of ...

It’s hard to overstate the importance of manufacturing quality. Reliable quality control (QC) processes ensure regulatory compliance, prevent costly production mistakes and lead to better-performing ...

New technologies, innovations, and tools are opening doors for building teams interested in better and yet less-expensive performing arts facilities. A look at design trends for “budget-wise” ...

Boulder Community Health’s West Medical Building, with its hybrid vacuum-insulated glass installation and two inches of continuous rigid insulation, and the Lubber Run Community Center, Arlington, Va.

Based on extensive theoretical explorations and engineering practices, a general framework for HPM is proposed. As illustrated in the figure, this framework consists of four main parts: HPM objectives ...

Building performance is a hallmark of architecture in the 21st century. With buildings and the construction industry being significant contributors to carbon emissions, designers must do everything to ...

To the casual observer, off-road tires may appear to be variations on a theme: deep lugs, vast voids, and aggressive sidewalls. But for a mud-stained enthusiast engineer, every notch, groove, and ...

Once a niche solution for maximizing silicon yields, chiplets have become the industry’s go-to strategy for delivering more cores at lower costs. AMD popularized the approach with Ryzen and EPYC, ...

A stock LS3 rec-port intake manifold is hard to beat and only costs $299. When Chevy went back to the drawing board after the success of the cathedral-port Gen III LS1 small-block V-8, it realized ...