Warehouses are not high rises, and vertical pumping of concrete rarely is a problem—but they do pose their own challenges. Defined and stringent Ff/Fl numbers and burnish requirements, high daily ...
Concrete column specimens from Champlain Towers South are stored in a warehouse space where investigators can conduct material and structural testing. Compounding factors reduced the margins of safety ...
The Visual Arts Building (VAB) at the University of Iowa is a marvel of both aesthetic design and mechanical engineering. Six years in the making and completed in October 2016, the award-winning, ...
The pool deck at Champlain Towers South Condo, now at the center of a forensic investigation into the building’s deadly collapse, had been a problem for decades, a newly released 1996 construction ...
Federal investigators with the National Institute of Standards and Technology say the June 24, 2021, collapse of Champlain Towers South in Surfside, Fla., likely began at a slab-column connection in ...
SURFSIDE, FLA. (WSVN) - Federal investigators say the 2021 partial collapse of Champlain Towers South in Surfside likely began in the building’s pool deck, not the tower itself, and that warning signs ...