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Beyond environmental advantages, adaptive reuse delivers measurable economic and social benefits. Using existing structures often shortens construction timelines, reduces material and labor costs, and ...

The ASCE manual provides a unified standard for foundation design, reducing variability and unnecessary costs across utilities. It promotes modern approaches like Reliability-Based Design (RBD) to ...

Reflecting changing currents in engineering design and material availability, the American Concrete Institute has updated its 318 standard to ACI 318-25, with a new sustainability guide and updated ...

The SOM Foundation is pleased to announce the opening of the 2025 Structural Engineering Fellowship. Applications to this year’s Structural Engineering Fellowship should conduct original research that ...

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