This course focuses on enhancing the key management skills required of leaders in civil engineering and construction. Through it you'll explore the sustainability, management and environmental impact ...

A bolted connection rarely gets the attention a beam or slab gets. On the drawing, it looks simple. In the bill of materials, it’s one line. That mismatch is why several of the most famous structural ...

Sometimes structural loads are excessively high, and a decision must be made if intervention, either removal of the excess load or strengthening of the structure, is needed. This issue was addressed ...

A new report provides a snapshot of the status of building regulatory frameworks in the Sub-Saharan Africa region. The study reviewed the current building regulations in the region and how well they ...

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Façades don't always have to be opaque. Whereas in the past the only options were heavy and raw–such as stone and brick–in recent years façades have adopted an increasingly lighter appearance, with ...

New research from Imperial College London has shown that travelling fires pose a risk to the structures of large open building spaces over 100m2. With more and more large office spaces designed as ...

Multi-bolt shear connectors (MBSCs), arranging bolts as a group in several rows, can be applied in prefabricated steel–concrete composite beams or bridges (SCCBs) to reduce the construction time and ...