Early in 2002, Craig McNay was having lunch with his old friend Bill Gerdes, a steel fabricator from Quincy, Ill., when he mentioned that he was serving as the owner's rep for a Miglin Properties ...

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

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 ...

When the 1,200-foot-long Francis Scott Key Bridge opened in 1977, its enormous steel-truss design was the state of the art for river crossings. But in the decades since, a more modern design that has ...

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, ...

Ultimately, eight years of planning all came down to eight hours and about 700 ft—the distance traveled by a nearly 400-ft-long, 4.3-million-lb railroad truss on four self-propelled modular ...