A recent project for the University of Alabama's Department of Science and Engineering exemplifies Birdwell & Associates' confidence, ambition and talents in concrete construction. The floor was small ...

A concrete slab that supported the pool deck at Florida's Champlain Towers South condo building, which collapsed last month and resulted in the deaths of at least 95 people so far, needed "concrete ...

Lightweight and versatile, molded polystyrene foam is a commercial building material that despite being commonly used remains somewhat misunderstood. Frequently identified by the misnomer Styrofoam, ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. The ground-floor pool deck of the oceanfront ...

Nearly three years before Thursday’s deadly partial collapse of a South Florida residential building, an engineer raised concerns about structural damage to the concrete slab below the pool deck and ...

This month we will continue our discussion regarding building collapse with a look at the different types of building construction, and some specific collapse inherent hazards that are associated with ...

SURFSIDE, Fla. — "Major structural damage" to the concrete slab below the pool deck at the 12-story Champlain Towers South was noted in an engineering report three years before the building collapsed, ...

Office-to-residential conversion seems like a simple solution to a problem. Nationwide, office vacancies stand at 17%, with some big cities—San Francisco, Houston, Austin—topping 30%, while the U.S.

A murky video looking into the basement-level garage of the Champlain Towers South condo, recorded from the street by a tourist just minutes before the 12-story building caved in, is more than just a ...

Navi Mumbai: The Navi Mumbai Municipal Corporation (NMMC) started the structural audit of Tulsi Bhawan in Nerul where the slab of the third floor caved in when labourers were removing tiles from the ...