Technical
February 20, 2018
By Lucas Epp Over the last 10 years, the field of computational design has taken the building industry by storm. The meteoric rise of this...
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By Mike Phillips A few decades ago, you needed a drafting table, calculator and lots of time to design anything beyond a very standard...
October 5, 2017
Jim Taggart To understand the principles of seismic design, one must first understand the nature of seismic forces. Initiated by the...
By Kenneth Bland While heavy timber construction (Type IV in U.S. building codes) is one of the oldest wood construction methods...
By Patrick Chouinard While North America is in its infancy in mass timber use, Europe is well into a second-generation of Cross-Laminated...
Featured • Technical
April 25, 2017
This is the first case study of its kind that analyzes four different building types of equal structural and architectural design and...
November 11, 2016
By Cory Hollenhorst Designers and architects are often met with the challenge of maintaining their design vision when building code...
