The proposed bypass fix for the troubled Fremont Street girders of San Francisco’s Salesforce Transit Center calls for bolting 20-in.-wide steel cover plates above and below the area around each fractured bottom flange, like a 14-ft-long double splint.
San Francisco officials and the city’s team scrutinizing permit applications for shoring the 645-ft-tall Millennium Tower—which has settled 17 in. and tilted 4 in. over more than a decade—say the review will last several months.
After calling for a “complete structural evaluation” of San Francisco's Salesforce Transit Center, the Transbay Joint Powers Authority now says the problems with girders are localized.
According to a survey by Architectural Record and ENR, roughly two-thirds of the 600 architects surveyed reported having experienced sexual harassment on a jobsite, at work, or in another location.
The Transbay Joint Powers Authority, after closing its recently dedicated Salesforce Transit Center, is investigating the cause of cracked built-up plate girders supporting the roof garden.
The tally of how many defective cross-laminated timber panels need replacement on a $79-million college of forestry building under construction at Oregon State University is almost complete.
At least eight vehicles were trapped beneath the rubble of an uncompleted pedestrian bridge that collapsed near the campus of Florida International University.
A team in earthquake-prone Seattle is daring to deliver an 850-ft-tall “proof of concept” for a composite structural-steel frame, instead of a steel frame around a reinforced concrete core.