When the framers of the Jeddah Tower—designed to rise higher than 1 kilometer—needed advice on the wind climate about 500 m above the earth’s atmospheric boundary layer, they turned to RWDI Consulting Engineers and Scientists.
The American Society of Civil Engineers has proposed that a new chapter in its ASCE 7 Minimum Design Loads for Buildings and Other Structures, which addresses tsunami-resistant design, also be explicitly referenced in the ICC’s 2018 International Building Code.
Jason F. McLennan has left an “incredible legacy of brilliant ideas and visions for our future,” says Amanda Sturgeon, the new CEO of the International Living Future Institute, which administers the sustainable-building certification program called the Living Building Challenge.
Promulgators of the Living Building Challenge, acknowledged as the most demanding certification program for the production of ultragreen buildings, are on a campaign to scale up the size of the projects that register for the rigorous net-zero annual energy- and water-use performance categories.
From buildings to bridges, the built environment would benefit from a stronger design collaboration between structural engineers and geotechnical engineers.