A team of researchers at University of British Columbia has developed a new design for highrises that could help tall ...

Traditional highrise designs rely on a rigid concrete core, which typically place elevators and stairwells inside the central ...

Although it looks rather uninteresting, the American Railway Building has had many different functions through its near century of existence on Purdue’s campus.

Some examples of building improvements are: rubber shock absorbers in the foundations to absorb the Earth tremors steel frames that can sway during Earth movements open areas outside of the ...

These isolators, which sit at the base of buildings, act as shock absorbers, reducing the force transferred from the ground to the structure. While Bangkok’s high-rises swayed dramatically ...