Having recently reached a height of 113 meters, the contender for the title of the world’s tallest building is slowly growing up in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.
The first ropeless, tall-building elevator—a compact, lightweight system that mimics a subway line on end—is set to enter the testing and certification stage in early 2017.
Conservationists are celebrating a new law in California that expands the state’s building energy-use benchmarking program to include multifamily housing and facilitates the implementation of the state’s log-jammed commercialbuilding benchmarking program.
Researchers conducting the broadest survey to date of multiparty integrated-project-delivery experiences say they did not expect such overwhelmingly positive responses.
Using a free Web application from Steel Central LLC, structural-steel buyers and sellers can enter the electronic age of commerce and speed their transactions.
Jason F. McLennan, founder of the nonprofit that created the world's most stringent program for the certification of green buildings, is leaving his post as CEO of the International Living Future Institute to practice architecture.
The members of the building team charged with landing what appears to be a winged flying saucer at Florida Polytechnic University's new campus would have had enough on their plate if they were all huddled in the same place, scratching their heads over design architect Santiago Calatrava's futuristic forms.
Two developers, one for a planned 12-story building in Portland, Ore., and the other for a planned 10-story building in Manhattan, are winners of a competition designed to support construction of tall mass timber structures in the U.S. The winners will split $3 million in funding.
Fremont will be the first U.S. skyscraper to use all elevators for evacuation. In a U.S. first, a high-rise, when completed by the end of next year, will contain an elevator system that operates during fires to evacuate occupants.
