La population d’Edmonton approche le million, ce qui en fait la 5e plus grande municipalité du Canada. Par contre, la ville produit beaucoup de déchets. Puisque son espace d’enfouissement est réduit et qu’elle transporte déjà 60 % de ses…
The Cold-Formed Steel Engineers Institute (CFSEI) presented three first-place Design Excellence awards and one first-place Innovative Detail award during the 2018 CFSEI Expo held May 15-16 at the Wyndham San Diego Bayside Hotel in San…
When Quebec-based Les Maisons Alouette designed a zero-energy home for the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC) EQuilibrium Sustainable Housing Demonstration Initiative, it chose a combination of solar power, passive solar…
Lorsque l’entreprise québécoise Les Maisons Alouette a conçu une maison autonome pour l’Initiative de démonstration de maisons durables EQuilibriumMC de la Société canadienne d’hypothèques et de logement (SCHL), elle a choisi une…
WASHINGTON, D.C., October 30, 2018 – The American Iron and Steel Institute (AISI) has published a new cold-formed steel research report on load bearing clip angle design. The report presents the second phase of a research project aimed at…
Article originally published in Construction Canada Magazine and on their website.
Cold-formed steel design for acoustic code compliance
By Steven R. Fox, PhD, P.Eng. & CSSBI General Manager
The North American steel industry has…
Article originally posted on Blue and Green Tomorrow on June 12, 2018.
As the demand for green buildings rises, businesses are looking for the best materials to use. Surprisingly, steel can be one of the best green building materials…
From both a resiliency and sustainability perspective, it makes sense to construct buildings meant to last and remain in service for their full economic lives. Ideally, those buildings should also be adaptable to avoid functional…
Building owners, developers, contractors and design professionals are concerned with overall system construction costs from the design phase through the operational phase, and not simply the raw material costs of structural and…
Article originally posted on Architectural Record on February 18, 2019.
The U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) has announced the release of an update to LEED, the world’s most widely used sustainability rating system. Version 4.1 for new…
