Manual for building design aims to encourage low-carbon construction as alternative to steel and concrete ...

Completion certificate covers fire safety, structural stability, and implementation of approved building plans.

Lagos Island Cell, has raised the alarm over what it described as persistent and systemic failures in fire safety management of high-rise buildings on Lagos Island, following the devastating fire at ...

Comprehensive guidance about the design of permanent bamboo structures has been published by the Institution of Structural ...

Signature Global has entered into a Rs 380 Crore agreement with Indo-Italian joint venture CECO Hirun to deploy advanced ...

As part of this collaboration, Signature Global has onboarded Indo-Italian firm CECO Hirun Pvt. Ltd. to design HTMD systems tailored for its high-rise projects. The programme will be executed in India ...

This advanced earthquake-resistance technology, Hysteretic Tuned Mass Dampers (HTMDs), is a specialised system ...

Structural engineer Webb Yates has completed its first structural stone building for a commercial developer. Thomas Lane reports on the firm's 20-year mission to establish stone as a sustainable alter ...

Historical building methods Early Swiss mountain huts used locally available materials by necessity. Stone from nearby quarries provided walls with thermal mass to moderate temperature swings. Timber ...

The manual draws on the expertise of four international authors from academia and industry. They are all members of the International Bamboo And Rattan Organization (INBAR) Bamboo Construction Task ...

Planting trees on building facades is a contentious topic, due to cost, complication and questionable carbon benefits – but ...