The Cottonwood Cornerstone Center office building complex (Utah) is located in the shadows of the Wasatch Mountains and less than 1 mile from the Wasatch Fault. The office building consists of a six-story steel structure, a three-story lobby connector steel structure...
Construction is underway on the Residence at Basking Ridge, a 90-apartment assisted living, memory care, temporary stay and respite care community in Basking Ridge, NJ. When completed, the community will feature three levels of cold-formed steel (CFS) framing and a...
The COVID-19 pandemic put many travel plans on hiatus, especially as coronavirus variants spread across the globe. But work on hotel and resort projects certainly didn’t come to a halt during this disruption. “While many of us were stuck at home,” says the...
A new 3-story, 101-suite assisted living and memory care community, Chelsea at Greenburgh, in Greenburgh, N.Y., was constructed on an abandoned retail site and opened to residents in December 2020. The 90,651-square-foot housing community was designed with sustainable...
Meadow View Elementary in Sun Prairie, Wis., designed by raSmith, features CFS-framed curtain walls and lots of window openings. Studies show that daylight in schools increase students’ test scores and promote better health and physical development. According to the...
The United States is facing a shortage of 6.8 million homes, according to the National Association of Realtors. To fix the housing crisis, innovative solutions are needed to speed the production process at affordable prices. California-based Veev has developed a...
Homelessness has long been a problem in California, with an estimated 170,000 homeless people on the street on any given night. To help alleviate the problem, California Governor Gavin Newsom signed a historic Housing and Homelessness Funding Package that includes...
If you wanted to build with cold-formed steel (CFS) framing, how high could you go? While some say 10 stories is the limit for CFS, what could a structural engineer do if he thought “outside the box”? The Steel Framing Industry Association (SFIA) decided to find out....
A former Florida fire chief is building his 6,000-square-foot retirement home utilizing corrosion-resistant, galvanized structural steel and sprayed-on concrete to create a structure that can withstand up to 250 mph from either tornadoes or Category 5 hurricanes and...