Many renovated buildings replace wood and masonry structural elements with steel. The replacement of heavy wooden roof and floor joists with the lighter steel open-web bar-truss joists is a common ...

I’m sure you’ve driven across or seen large steel truss bridges that are made by combining any number of huge steel beams into right triangles that interconnect. When viewed from the side they look ...

The city of Minneapolis is seeking a new home for the 89-year-old St. Anthony Parkway bridge. In a public notice, the city is soliciting proposals for the “sale, relocation, rehabilitation and reuse” ...

Keywords: Seismic design. Bridges. Piers. Seismic resistance. Steel truss piers. Controlled rocking piers. Ground motion. Seismic response. Excitation. Longitudinal ...

Just off the Las Vegas Strip, and within the footprint of the world’s tallest observation wheel, contractors’ weekly lifts of massive 315-ft-long steel trusses are key features of the $375-million ...

The City of Everett settled the claim for $860,000, well under the $5.8 million initially sought by the contractor. EVERETT — The complexity of the steel truss design and tight time constraints to ...