Articles by Nadine M. Post

Howard Simpson, known for his engineering expertise in structural mechanics, died Jan. 23 at age 97. He was the last surviving founder of multidisciplinary consulting engineer Simpson Gumpertz & Heger.

Founding director of Carbon Leadership Campaign has rallied thousands to crusade against harmful effects of building production on the environment.

AIA Gold Medalist’s sparkling gem, with its vast garden paradise under glass, redefines the shopping mall.

Bold man of steel­work ushers in an era of faster-to-erect tall buildings

Pushing safety by organizing a U.S. program to confidentially share lessons learned about failures

The reality that more structures fail during construction than after completion spurred the forensic engineer, who died Jan. 3 in Manhattan, to champion the first load design standard for temporary and partially completed structures. 

Protectors of feathered friends are celebrating the New York City Council’s passage of the most expansive legislation in the U.S. aimed at reducing collisions of birds with buildings.

The U.S. Green Building Council recently announced LEED Positive – a vision statement and LEED development roadmap that USGBC hopes will lay the foundation for a “regenerative” built environment.

The free, open-source Embodied Carbon in Construction Calculator is the first digital tool of its kind in North America