Construction Informer

People may have to stop referencing the Three Little Pigs story while extolling the virtues of one building material over another. It appears that straw may be just as resilient as brick.
Darcey Donovan, a civil engineer, and the Reno alumna of the University of Nevada, built a straw house that survived the 82-ton force of [...]

How Much Stimulation Will Your School District Lose? Or, maybe by now it should read – Did Lose. Pro Publica has put up a tool on the Web where you can see how much construction money won’t be flowing to your school system if the Senate version of the stimulus package gets passed. Some builders [...]

One part of the country’s flirtation with rebuilding its infrastructure could be a new style of bridge in certain locales. Called a flexible bridge, it is engineered to withstand an 8.0 earthquake.
Engineers at the University of Nevada built and tested a 200 ton model that survived 10 seconds of shaking. Its resilience is attributed to [...]