The Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH) has dubbed the 85.4-meter Mjøstårnet, in Brumunddal, Norway, as the world's tallest timber building.
The underlying causes of the trouble at San Francisco’s 4.5-block-long Salesforce Transit Center are coming into focus as investigators continue to scrutinize the building.
The International Code Council has announced that the 14 tall mass timber code change proposals unofficially passed the ballot for inclusion in the 2021 International Building Code.
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.
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.
