Articles by Nadine M. Post

Investigators for San Francisco’s Transbay Joint Powers Authority are searching for the cause of brittle fractures in the tapered bottom flanges of twin 80-ft-long built-up plate girders in San Francisco’s Salesforce Transit Center.

Crews shore twin 80-ft-long plate girders at San Francisco transit center after discovery of brittle fractures in flanges

Work begins to stabilize two girders with bottom-flange cracks in the recently opened Salesforce Transit Center in seismically active San Francisco.

At last month’s Global Climate Action Summit, Microsoft announced it is the first large corporate user of a new tool to track carbon emissions associated with raw building materials.

Tenants began moving into San Francisco’s tallest building—and the tallest office building west of Chicago—in January, 10 years after the project’s onset.

Santa Monica takes a high dive into deep sustainability waters in thirsty Southern California

Last week, at the Global Climate Action Summit in San Francisco, Microsoft announced it is the first large corporate user of a new tool to track the carbon emissions of raw building materials. Microsoft is piloting the tool, called the Embodied Carbon Calculator for Construction or EC3, in the remodel of its 72-acre Seattle campus.

The tally of how many defective cross-laminated timber panels need replacement on a $79-million college of forestry building at Oregon State University is almost complete.