FLUSHING, N.Y. — The infamous soil at the Billie Jean King National Tennis Center made the idea of building a retractable roof over the world’s largest tennis stadium an engineering conundrum. As fans ...
Like many firefighters, I always look at buildings as though I were sizing them up for firefighting operations. One building construction technique that always intrigued me is the metal pitched roof.
Sacramento International Airport’s Central Terminal and Concourse B is the largest public construction capital improvement project undertaken by Sacramento County to date. This $1.04 billion terminal ...
Ashlyn is one of Forbes Home's in-house writers and a former civil engineer-turned content writer with over six years experience. Until recently, Ashlyn focused on creating content for Forbes Home as ...
The roof position is one of the most difficult and dangerous, yet it’s also critical. Roof firefighters are the eyes and ears of the incident commander (IC), as well as all of their brother and sister ...
Utah-based Sure Steel Inc., ENR MidAtlantic’s Specialty Contractor of the Year, is making inroads on the Eastern Seaboard Sure Steel Inc. worked on Southwest Airlines’ maintenance hangar at ...