Articles by Nadine M. Post

By launching the world's first zero-carbon-energy building certification program, the International Living Future Institute, creator of the super-rigorous Living Building Challenge, is further acknowledging that building teams need to jog before they enter sustainable-building marathons.

Structural engineers emphasize that poor communication about 3D-model content causes most disputes on BIM projects

Group plans tests to create performance-based structural-fire-engineering guide for cutting-edge composite shear wall

Structural innovator calls on industry leaders to create a funding collective for public-domain research to speed advancement in the built environment

Based on recent fire test results, mass timber groups have adjusted product certification standards to require the use of cross-laminated timber with structural adhesives tested to demonstrate better fire performance.

Civil engineer Terry Dooley, after a career selling steel and developing construction jobs, spends 15 years growing an ACE Mentor Program.

All ended well this month, with the opening of San Francisco’s tallest landmark. 

Jason Reigstad is on a crusade to warn about lurking danger in more than 100 parking garages, each with an underdesigned—and non-code-complaint—precast double-T slab system. 

On Jan. 9, the American Society of Civil Engineers approved for publication its first manual of practice for performance-based structural fire engineering.