SEQUIM — Five of the 12 steel truss sections have arrived for a $1.53 million replacement of the Railroad Bridge trestle damaged in February flooding. The sections had arrived as of Friday, said Randy ...

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 ...

Keywords: Retrofitting. Bridges. Steel. Trusses. Piers. Bridge steel truss piers. Controlled rocking approaches. Passive control. Energy dissipation devices. Pier ...

Trusses are a fundamental tool in an engineer’s toolbox — a structurally simple way to transfer weight from one part of a roof to the walls or columns that are designed to withstand the effects of ...

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

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, ...

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 ...