An inspector with the Department of Buildings and Inspections found that one of the deck's main support beams had failed, ...

10 people were injured after the main support beam failed and a balcony collapsed in a Ohio nerighborhood last week. A code ...

Question: My husband and I purchased a beautiful townhome on Santa Barbara’s Upper Eastside a few years back that was recently built. There are two buildings, both three stories tall, built in what I ...

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 ...

People living in the Independence Avenue community are preparing for a big increase in their homeowners association fees to ...

Q: I’m facing some building projects. One is a tall deck, another is framing a garden shed, and I need to help a friend with a room addition. I’m wondering about diagonal bracing. I don’t understand ...

A balcony collapse near the University of Cincinnati sent ten people to the hospital after a support beam failed under the ...

Retrofitted Marshal Jozef Pilsudski Bridge in Torun, Poland. Photo Credit, all images: Fibrolux. Fibrolux GmbH (Hofheim, Germany), said to be one of the largest developer and manufacturer of pultruded ...