Articles by Nadine M. Post

Cities are sharing best practices to better tailor their building-energy benchmarking programs.

Structural engineer Vincent J. DeSimone—an innovator with an outsize personality known for his ability to creatively support his architect-clients as they curved, twisted and stretched their building envelopes—died on Nov. 16, just two weeks shy of his 79th birthday.

Metsa Wood urban design-competition winners suggest adding more levels, using wood framing, on existing buildings.

Wellness centers, health-care facilities, medical centers, clinics, hospitals and assisted-living complexes—facilities that treat the sick and aid the aging—are getting healthier themselves.

Supporters of an updated structural building-design standard, developed by the American Society of Civil Engineers, are breathing a collective sigh of relief after members of the International Code Council voted down an attempt to keep the standard, known as ASCE 7-16, out of the 2018 edition of ICC’s International Building Code and its other model codes.

First-ever two-hour fire testing on a mass-timber exposed structure shows that engineered wood can meet stringent U.S. fire codes for tall buildings.