Articles by Nadine M. Post

The Charles Pankow Foundation has released preliminary guidance to designers and builders interested in considering the impacts of embodied carbon in mechanical, electrical and plumbing systems.

Though born in China, I.M. Pei, who died on May 16 in New York City at age 102, became one of the most dominant American architects of his time.

The independent panel reviewing the investigation of San Francisco’s troubled Salesforce Transit Center is tasked with both determining the cause of brittle fractures in two bottom flanges of twin built-up plate girders and assigning responsibility for the fractures, according to Ron Alameida, director of design and construction for the public owner, the Transbay Joint Powers Authority. 

Workers have completed repairs of the fractured girders at the beleaguered Salesforce Transit Center in San Francisco, shuttered since late September, some six weeks after it opened.

The International Living Future Institute, steward of the world’s most demanding sustainable-building program, is no longer satisfied with its boutique status as a third-party certifier of super-green buildings.

Help is on the way for structural engineers driving toward improving the efficiency, reliability and resilience of buildings through performance-based wind design.

Field work to fix two fractured girders is underway at the troubled Salesforce Transit Center in San Francisco.

Cross-complaints filed regarding San Francisco’s troubled Salesforce Transit Center, shuttered after girder fractures

The steel subcontractor and the fabricator for the problem bridge-like spans at San Francisco's Salesforce Transit Center are vigorously countering the Transbay Joint Powers Authority's contention that a construction error caused the brittle fractures of the hub’s two built-up plate girders.