When the Chrysler Building appeared on the Manhattan skyline 90 years ago, it was the most magnificent skyscraper ever built and the tallest in the world, a gleaming testament to American ingenuity ...
SALT LAKE CITY — The final steel beam was placed atop what will be a 451-foot high-rise in Salt Lake City, making it the tallest building in Utah. The Astra Tower is located at 89 East 200 South State ...
What has a 426-seat auditorium, two classrooms with 173 seats each, 20 other classrooms with 37 to 124 seats each, a teaching and learning lab, and one special beam? The $86 million Teaching and ...
LANCASTER — Super-heated steel has a smell, an distinct mixture of sweat, carbon, iron, oil and heat. It rolls off the metal and permeates the air. The scent isn't offensive, but rather harkens to ...
The standard square beams are produced from graphite and PAN carbon fibres using CompoTech’s innovative automated, robot assisted filament placement technique, which places continuous fibres axially ...
The big green beam that arrived was part of a delta frame — steel triangles that support the top girders to form the steel supports of the bridge. Surrounded by a motorcade, an oversized truck ...
Welcome back to the "Behold the Beam" series of articles. In part three (Firehouse®, September 2010) of the series, we discussed the first five of the 13 common types of beams that firefighters can ...
The company that fabricated the Chrysler Building’s steel punched a hole in my assumption about who supplied it. To me, it only made sense that American Bridge, a subsidiary of mammoth U.S. Steel Corp ...
Many renovated buildings replace wood and masonry structural elements with steel. The replacement of heavy wooden roof and floor joists with the lighter steel open-web bar-truss joists is a common ...