Five finalists of an international design competition for affordable infill housing on scattered “sliver” sites owned by New York City, are entering a capacity building phase with the city to convert their designs into viable development proposals.

As predicted, the Erection Co. topped out Seattle’s 850-ft-tall Rainier Square Tower, with its radical composite steel frame dubbed “speed core,” in only 10 months.

The repercussions from the fire tragedy at Grenfell Tower, which killed 72 people in a London high-rise in June 2017, continue to spread through the world of building fire safety.

Damage was limited in Ridgecrest, but earthquake research institute reports two red-tagged buildings.

The focus of IBHS outreach in 2019 is calling out details of landscaping, construction materials, and the assembly of decks, roofs, siding, soffits and vents as ignition-point risks when seeded by wind-blown embers. It also is looking at the fire resistance of manufactured lumber, versus natural materials.