News tagged shear-wall
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200 Park: Transformational Engineering Speeds Rise of San Jose Tower
The 300-ft-tall commercial office high-rise 200 Park in San Jose, Calif., is just the second tower built with the SpeedCore concrete-filled composite steel plate shear wall core system. The result is the Northern California 2024 Project of the Year.
Resources tagged shear-wall
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How Structural Engineers Design Buildings for Wind and Earthquake
Buildings with various shapes get built around us and they are getting taller and more complicated day by day. So how do these structures get designed to resist their own weight, occupants' weight, winds, or earthquake forces? This video will provide you a detailed overview of how structural engineers design buildings for lateral loads
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Structural Engineers' Secrets for Mega Tall Building Design
Have you ever wondered how the tallest buildings in the world are designed or what special measures structural engineers take to make these heights possible? In this video it talks about some of the major considerations engineers take
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