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Optimizing Data Centers: The Role of Ventilated Aluminium Wall Cladding
- Jun, 17, 2024
- Walls Performance-Based Design Structural Optimization General Construction News On Products & Services News On Projects / Industry
- Authored by: TheCivilEngineer.org
As businesses increasingly turn to external computing power, data centers have become critical infrastructure for efficient and secure data processing and storage. One of the key challenges these fac...
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Mass Timber in Affordable Housing
- May, 08, 2024
- Structural Design Walls Structural Behavior General Construction News On Projects / Industry
- United States, Connecticut
- Authored by: TheCivilEngineer.org
Mass timber is earning its place not only in high-end projects but also in affordable housing, where it offers sustainability and aesthetic benefits. A standout example is the 340+ Dixwell project, w...
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Building collapse in Cairo, Egypt: at least 13 fatalities
- Jul, 19, 2023
- Damage (Structural) Structural Failures Structure Reinforcement Concrete Structures Walls Other Structural
- Egypt
- Authored by: TheCivilEngineer.org
A five-story apartment building collapsed in Cairo, the capital of Egypt, on Monday. The incident caused at least 13 fatalities, while rescue teams worked diligently to search for survivors amidst th...
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Storm rips off the wall of a 12th floor apartment in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
- May, 19, 2023
- Damage (Structural) Damage (Structural) Structural Reliability Walls Wood Structures Wind Engineering Other Structural Repair And Retrofit Of Structures General Construction General Civil Construction Management News On Natural Disasters / Failures
- Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur
- Authored by: TheCivilEngineer.org
The wall of a 12th floor apartment in Kuala Lumpur was ripped off during a thunderstorm on Friday, May 19. Furthermore, the event took place in the Loke Yew building, which consists of public housin...
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Precast and prefabricated concrete structures: What is the difference?
- Mar, 13, 2023
- Concrete Structures Slabs Walls Structural Design Performance-Based Design
- Authored by: TheCivilEngineer.org
Over the last few decades, precast and prefabricated concrete structures have become prevalent in the construction industry, used in a variety of projects. Concrete slabs, pillars, beams, and walls m...
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Portsmouth house collapse: Poor quality of the bricks may cause the partial collapse
- Jan, 05, 2023
- Structural Failures Damage (Structural) Structural Design Structural Reliability Walls Structural Stability Other Structural
- United Kingdom
- Authored by: TheCivilEngineer.org
A terraced house is believed to have collapsed due to the low grade bricks used to build it. The house in Langford Road, Portsmouth caved in on 7 December and caused the partial collapse of the home...
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Building walls with demolition waste - the poetry of Cyclopean concrete
- Sep, 16, 2022
- Concrete Structures Sustainable Development Structure Reinforcement Structural Behavior Walls Thin Wall Structures
- Authored by: TheCivilEngineer.org
Ancient cyclopean walls were built by overlapping raw stones, supported one on the other, without the use of mortar. The name derives from the Cyclops, the giants of Greek mythology, as their constru...
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