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Safety
Safe and Sound: Steel Reinforced Concrete
Fire resistance and burnout resistance of timber columns
Modern Steel Construction: The future of safety excellence
Sample Safety Program Elements for Structural Steel Fabricators
Modern Steel Construction: Second Time Around
Ready Mixed Concrete: Ready for Safety
Firestopping for Concrete Masonry Walls
The Concrete Centre: Fire Resistance
Problems at Peavy: Faulty timber panels raise stakes for promising new Oregon market
Making the cut: is cross-laminated timber safe?
Know the risks of cross-laminated timber before beginning your project
Presentation: What Structural Engineers Should Know About Fire Design
Non-Combustible Concrete Construction
Modern Steel Construction: Safety Hazard Prevention, By Design
Resilience
Why Choose Steel: Strength and Resilience
Cold-Formed Steel and Resilience
Resilient Design Guide: Concrete Construction Edition
Concrete and Resilient Construction Go Hand-In-Hand
Concrete Reinforcing: Basics and Resources
The Concrete Centre: Flood Resilience
Resiliency of Reinforced Structural Clay Unit Masonry Construction
Why You Should Care About Resilience
Build disaster-proof homes before storms strike, not afterward
Planning more resilient cities
City Texture and Urban Resilience
Video: National Steel Bridge Alliance - 2020 Prize Bridge Award Winners
Pathway to Resilience: A Guide for Developing a Community Action Plan
Sustainability
Wood Is Not the Climate-friendly Building Material Some Claim it to Be
Harvesting Wood Has Overlooked Carbon Costs
Steel Reinforced Concrete: The Sustainable Solution
Nucor Launches Econiq™ Net-Zero Steel
Mass Timber in the Age of Mass Extinction
Caveat Emptor: Sustainability, Wood and the Environment
Amid climate crisis, a proposal to save Washington state forests for carbon storage, not logging
Setting the Record Straight on Tall Timber
Climate Impacts of Industrial Forest Practices in North Carolina
Open Letter: Concern Regarding Cross-laminated timber and environmental sustainability
Concrete Benefits: Sustainability
To Save Our Climate We Need Taller Trees Not Taller Wooden Buildings
Video: Celebrating Steel’s Sustainability on Earth Day
Structural Steel: The Premier Green Construction Material
Washington’s Building Codes Get Greener: Masonry Systems Prepared to Step Ahead
Why Masonry? The Sustainable Choice
High Performance Masonry: Sustainability through quality assurance practices
Methods, Impacts, and Opportunities in the Concrete Building Life Cycle
Optimizing Building Life Cycle Environmental Impact and Cost
The Little Green Book of Concrete
Carbon Sequestration in Forest Based Building Products
Crushed Returned Concrete as Aggregates for New Concrete
The Sustainable Steel Supply Chain
A Green Building for a Green Company
Control of Air Leakage in Concrete Masonry Walls
Sustainability: Foundation for a Sustainable Future
Land use strategies to mitigate climate change in carbon dense temperate forests
Environmental Groups Blast New City-Funded All Timber Building for Shirking Environmental Standards
Emission Omissions: Carbon accounting gaps in the built environment
China, Global Warming and Hot-Rolled Structural Steel Sections
Substantial global carbon uptake by cement carbonation
The wood from the trees: The use of timber in construction
Sustainable Concrete Pavements: A Manual of Practice
Wooden high-rises don’t guarantee reduced emissions
Are the Environmental Benefits of Wood Use in Construction Overstated?
Eugene wood treatment plant fined $223K for repeated environmental violations
Cost & Constructability
If Katerra can't make it in prefab, can anyone?
Lumber prices have skyrocketed nearly 250% since April 2020
Katerra finds it's not easy to become the Tesla of prefab, mass timber construction
Lumber Defies Usual Lull With Building Boom Straining Supply
Innovative Steel Systems: SpeedCore
What Happened When a Public Institute Became a De Facto Lobbying Arm of the Timber Industry
Framework Tall Wood Tower in Portland gets the chop
Warped lumber, failed projects: TRD investigates Katerra, SoftBank’s $4B construction startup
Video: The Case for Concrete - Why Long-Term Value Matters
Structural Steel is the Cost Leader
Productivity and Modular Coordination in Concrete Masonry Construction
Why Working With Masonry Contractors Improves Constructability
Video: Constructability of Structural Steel Buildings
Modern Steel Construction: Consider Constructability
Efficient Masonry: Optimizing Design and Construction through BIM Technology
The Concrete Centre: Material Efficiency
The Real Value of Resilient Concrete Construction
AISC Aims to Halve Time for Steel Building, Bridge Delivery
Video: NUCOR - Powerful Partnerships. Powerful Results.
