The Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH) announced the winners and finalists of its 2016 Tall Building Awards. A panel of industry experts sorted through 132 submissions to select those who have set a new bar by employing inventive solutions.
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The Concrete Research Council (CRC) is providing research grants to promote progress, innovation, and collaboration within the concrete industry. CRC is a council of the American Concrete Institute’s (ACI’s) non-profit subsidiary, the ACI Foundation.
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A mid-rise cold-formed steel (CFS) building system built by SWS Panel and Truss was tested by the University of California San Diego’s (UCSD’s) engineering department for earthquake durability.
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The American Concrete Institute (ACI) recently released ACI 562-16: Code Requirements for Evaluation, Repair, and Rehabilitation of Concrete Buildings and Commentary, a new concrete repair code.
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The 2016 Offsite Construction Expo will be held in Washington, D.C., from Sept. 21 to 22. Registration is now open online.
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Ronald L. Geren, FCSI, CCS, CCCA, AIA, SCIP, the new board chair for CSI, has literally wrote the book on the building code. His Applying the Building Code: Step-by-Step Guidance for Design and Building Professionals has been published by Wiley.
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Bill DuBois, CSI, AIA, CCS, LEED AP, is the new vice president of specifications at New York-based construction-consulting firm Tao Group, which produces the Praxis Live education series.
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Design and consultancy firm Arcadis has released its 2016 “Global Construction Disputes,” which shows cost and time involved in solving construction disputes is rising in some parts of the world, but these expenses have decreased in North America for the third year in a row.
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Registration is open for CONSTRUCT 2016 & The CSI Annual Convention, which will be held in Austin, Texas, from September 7 to 9. The event, hosted at the Austin Convention Center and run by Informa, will include the usual CSI Honors & Awards Ceremony.
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The International Scientific Advisory Committee (ISAC) is hosting the first Interactive Symposium on Ultra-high-performance Concrete (UHPC) in Des Moines, Iowa from July 18 to 20.
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