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Structural Engineers 2050 Commitment Program is supporting the ambitious SE 2050 Challenge, which states that “all structural engineers shall understand, reduce and ultimately eliminate embodied carbon in their projects by 2050.” 

The Structural Engineers 2050 Commitment Program is trying to identify best practices to reduce embodied carbon in building structures.

The same recycling principles for concrete could also apply in peacetime, according to a research team from Ukrainian, Swiss and French universities.

Updating the building’s security system was a key focus of a major renovation, with the Cairo museum’s rare collection also including works by Paul Gaugin, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Claude Monet and more than 100 other artists.

For this project in Mucombeze, Shook’s eight workers—teaming up with SAM Ministries—constructed teacher dormitories at the 600-student primary school, where students walk as much as 10 miles to get to classes. 

The renovation design by luis vidal + architects centered on reviving the historic structure and integrating it with a new building so that “past, present and future merge in a building that combines modernity with tradition and innovation,” says the firm

As a representation of the potential of timber construction, the Tianfu Agricultural Exposition pushes the envelope of what’s possible.

In 2018, EPC contractor TGE Top Down delivered a $112-million, 10-story, 621,000-sq-ft office building in Bangalore, India, using a patented top-down building system.

Top-down construction—assembling the floor of a building on the ground and lifting it into place—has long presented a possible alternative to the labor-intensive process of building steel frames, floors, walls and all components at height.