isolated floor systems were subjected to earthquake excitations as well as story level horizontal excitations from representative floors in buildings having been retrofitted using structural fuses.

The structural floor system consists of standard five-ply CLT panels, a half-inch acoustical mat, and three inches of concrete topping to replace conventional concrete on metal deck construction used ...

A team of ETH Zurich researchers at the Institute of Technology in the Department of Architecture is developing an integrated structural floor system to address and combat the building industry’s ...

EXPLAIN how steel structural systems have been employed for use in multifamily residential structures, senior and student housing, and mixed-use developments. +COMPARE steel-based thin-floor systems ...

Details of construction are pre-engineered to allow for the flexibility to integrate with all the varying structural floor systems. This results in reduced labor costs and increased construction ...

These include software for designing and evaluating structural floor systems before construction begins, and specifying pre-cut and labeled framing packages. The goal isn’t to build the cheapest ...

Northeast Precast—a Millville, N.J.-based precast concrete manufacturer that offers both commercial and residential products—has launched Prespan, a patented new flooring system which features ...

More specifically, they are air-filled plastic balls sandwiched between two layers of reinforcing mesh, and they are the basis of a structural flooring system. The advertised advantage of BubbleDeck ...

Structural engineers asked these questions ... Failure finally occurred when the intense fires inside the towers weakened floor systems that braced the exterior walls. When the walls buckled ...

The recently opened four-star boutique hotel, Sant Antoni faced a challenging renovation, part of the solution was using the Flexbrick facade system for structural interior elements. Designed by ...