When the Chrysler Building appeared on the Manhattan skyline 90 years ago, it was the most magnificent skyscraper ever built and the tallest in the world, a gleaming testament to American ingenuity ...

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 ...

Monday's topping-off ceremony, which involved putting the Andersen Building's final steel beam into place, celebrated the building's structural integrity. The proton beam equipment arrives next year.

In this article we will continue to look at building structural systems. Last month we discussed concrete, which is one of the most basic building construction components. To review, concrete is a ...

DEAR TIM: I’m getting ready to build a large room addition that needs a beam to support the floor joists. I’ve been told that a wood beam will work, but I’ve always seen steel I-beams in other houses.

Thanks to a number of key innovations, steel is playing a greater role in residential high-rises, senior and student housing, and taller mixed-use developments, says architect Jayshree Shah, AIA, ...

The Transbay Transit Terminal is shut down through next week. Two cracked steel beams in the $2 billion structure were discovered earlier this week. What caused those beams to crack? KRON4 News asked ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. — If you haven't stopped by or seen the progress at the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, the steel beams are officially going up, and on Saturday people got a chance to leave their mark.

The company that fabricated the Chrysler Building’s steel punched a hole in my assumption about who supplied it. To me, it only made sense that American Bridge, a subsidiary of mammoth U.S. Steel Corp ...

A Major League Baseball stadium in Colorado used LiteSteel Beam products to build a 4,000-sf patio bar for local patrons. Designed by Populous Architects, the patio was originally configured for ...

NORWALK -- A 40-ton excavator clawed into old wood, brick and steel at 20 North Water St. on Wednesday morning, tearing down the last pieces of the former Norwalk Co. building in advance of ...

TEHRAN- As reported by the Iranian Steel Producers Association (ISPA), 834,000 tons of steel beam was produced in the first nine months of the current Iranian calendar year (March 21-Decemebr 21, 2025 ...