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Six Tips For Better Slabs Proper planning is the key for placing large, high performance floors.  Slab-on-ground placements are becoming larger and more complex. Owners are demanding tighter flatness numbers, increased jointing…

Big Challenges For Boston Commuters Concurrent Work on 2 Iconic Structures: Framingham-based contractor J.F.White, has begun on Boston’s Maurice J. Tobin Memorial Bridge on U.S. Route 1. The Massachusetts Department of Transportation…

We used to think of structural engineers as behind-the-scenes workers. Their sturdy foundation and framework designs for new buildings were mostly hidden by architectural design. But those days are over. In many communities within…

In the summer of 2016, citizens of Los Angeles got a wake-up call about the silent danger threatening their community. Thomas Jordan, Director of the Southern California Earthquake Center, reminded them that earthquake preparedness could…

In the next five years, at least 13,000 Los Angeles city property owners face an immediate challenge to retrofit or demolish their soft-story buildings thanks to city ordinance 183893. As neighboring communities follow LA’s lead with…

After decades of indifference to the risk, Los Angeles city leaders passed ordinance 183893 in October, 2015. It requires building owners to perform seismic retrofits on their residential and commercial soft-story properties.