They are subject to bending loads and are usually made of steel, wood, or concrete ... Before the joists are fitted, wall plates are installed. In residential construction, these rafters, beams, and ...

Saint Louis University’s Building Engineering Awareness in Metro Saint Louis Schools Competition — or Billiken BEAMS — is a group-based project opportunity in which students compete in teams to design ...

As a construction technique, mass timber is defined by its use of columns, beams and boards, made of multiple wood layers or pieces tightly laminated or otherwise bound together. The two mass timber ...

What’s unusual is how they’re building it — by bolting together giant beams, columns, and panels made of manufactured slabs of wood. As each wood element is delivered by flatbed, a tall ...

The structural glued wall element, composed of Kerto laminated veneer lumber beams and panels ... Calculations suggest that ...

Now, thanks to a new technology called "mass timber" construction, wood can replicate the strength of steel beams and concrete – to a degree, at least. A report by Knowable Magazine provides a ...

Wood engineered for strength and safety offers architects an alternative to carbon-intensive steel and concrete.