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Hybrid Wood-Steel Systems Deliver Tall Timber Success: The BCIT’s Student Housing Tower
- May, 01, 2025
- Structural Optimization Steel Structures Wood Structures News On Projects / Industry
- Canada
- Authored by: TheCivilEngineer.org
The British Columbia Institute of Technology (BCIT) in Burnaby has delivered a milestone in tall timber design with the completion of its 12-story Tall Timber Student Housing tower. Building on the e...
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Europe’s Largest Timber Development Breaks Ground in Stockholm
- Aug, 04, 2025
- Wood Structures General Construction General Civil Sustainable Development News On Projects / Industry Other News
- Authored by: TheCivilEngineer.org
As part of an initiative to align urban development with environmental priorities, Sweden has initiated the world’s largest wooden city in the Sickla district of Stockholm. Known as Stockholm Wood Ci...
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Civil Engineering News Recap of January 2025
- Feb, 06, 2025
- Tunneling Geoenvironmental Engineering Railway Geotechnics Sustainable Development Green Infrastructure General Civil General Construction Structural Failures Damage (Structural) Forensic Engineering Steel Structures Wood Structures Structural Systems Wind Engineering
- Authored by: TheCivilEngineer.org
You can now find TheCivilEngineer.org's latest news recap video on YouTube, which includes what we found to be the most interesting civil engineering news of January 2025. Namely, these were: 1) Ch...
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Safer Structures for Tougher Climate Times: The Case for CFS
- Jan, 21, 2025
- Steel Structures Structural Systems Wood Structures Green Infrastructure Sustainable Development News On Projects / Industry News On Products & Services
- Authored by: TheCivilEngineer.org
As the world faces increasingly frequent and severe climate events, the construction industry is tasked with creating buildings that are both sustainable and resilient. Hurricanes, wildfires, and ext...
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Building Smarter, Greener Structures with DfMA in Mass Timber Construction
- Jan, 02, 2025
- Structural Design Wood Structures Sustainable Development Construction Management General Civil General Construction News On Products & Services News On Projects / Industry
- Authored by: TheCivilEngineer.org
The Design for Manufacturing and Assembly (DfMA) approach is redefining the construction landscape, particularly in mass timber projects. With a focus on sustainability, precision, and efficiency, Df...
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Enhancing Mass Timber Construction: New CLT Design Solutions
- Aug, 05, 2024
- Structure Types Wood Structures Structural Design News On Products & Services News On Projects / Industry
- Authored by: TheCivilEngineer.org
The Rise of Cross-Laminated Timber (CLT) Cross-laminated timber (CLT) is gaining rapid popularity in the United States and worldwide. This engineered wood product is part of a broader construction m...
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Emphasis on Aesthetics Led to the Collapse of Tretten Timber Bridge in Norway
- Aug, 15, 2022
- Bridge Design Bridges Bridge Management Wood Structures Steel Structures News On Natural Disasters / Failures
- Norway, Tretten
- Authored by: TheCivilEngineer.org
Following the collapse of the Tretten Bridge in Norway in August 2022, an official report by the Norwegian Safety Investigation Authority (NSIA) criticized the bridge's design and construction. The b...
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Timber structure built by pre-sapiens carpenters was discovered by researchers
- Oct, 03, 2023
- Structural Design Wood Structures Performance-Based Design Structural Behavior Structural Stability Other Structural
- Zambia
- Authored by: TheCivilEngineer.org
The world's oldest known timber structure was excavated at Kalambo Falls in Zambia. Archaeologists found this structure, which was constructed by humans prior to the emergence of Homo sapiens as a di...
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Storm rips off the wall of a 12th floor apartment in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
- May, 19, 2023
- Damage (Structural) Damage (Structural) Structural Reliability Walls Wood Structures Wind Engineering Other Structural Repair And Retrofit Of Structures General Construction General Civil Construction Management News On Natural Disasters / Failures
- Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur
- Authored by: TheCivilEngineer.org
The wall of a 12th floor apartment in Kuala Lumpur was ripped off during a thunderstorm on Friday, May 19. Furthermore, the event took place in the Loke Yew building, which consists of public housin...
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SkyCiv Beam: A quick and easy-to-use online tool for beam analysis
- Apr, 11, 2023
- General Civil Structural Design Beams Wood Structures Steel Structures Moment Distribution Structural Deflection Other Structural General Civil Structural Systems Structure Types Structural Analysis Structural Behavior
- Authored by: TheCivilEngineer.org
SkyCiv provides a variety of online design and analysis software. Different subscription plans are also available, and one of them is the free-to-use, which provides access to some limited features....
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