DEAR TIM: My family is growing and I need to move my home office. I looked up into the attic over my garage that’s built with standard roof trusses. There’s plenty of room to create an office. How do ...

The staggered-truss structural system incorporating steel trusses was developed by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the late 1960s. However, designers' interest in the system has lagged ...

Believe it or not, at one point in my life I was trained as a civil engineer; I'm still a registered Professional Engineer in the State of Colorado. Some of my favorite classes at the university ...

A structure is a 3D shape made from different materials and parts. Some can be simple to build, such as a wall. Others can be complex, or harder to build, such as a bridge or a building. The strength ...

Using 80-ksi steel in upper perimeter columns—a first in the U.S.—helped the design team reduce the total steel by almost 20% for 320 S. Canal, a 51-floor office tower under construction in Chicago's ...