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Date/Time: July 15, 2026, 12:00 pm Central In the coastal heart of downtown Mobile, Alabama, the 1965 RSA Trustmark Building Parking Garage serves as a critical 190,000-square-foot logistical organ for the city’s commercial and cultural life. After six decades of exposure to chloride-rich Gulf winds, forensic analysis revealed a structural paradox: sound internal concrete suffering from systemic design flaws, including a complete lack of expansion joints.

Date/Time: July 22, 2026 12:00 pm Central Discover how the TNA Torque + Angle Fastening System is redefining accuracy and reliability in structural bolting. This webinar will explore the only fastening system that delivers both a quantifiable Snug Tight condition—ensuring every bolt in a connection achieves a minimum required tension—and the precise angle needed to achieve the specified final pretension.

Date/Time: June 17, 2026 12:00 pm Central Structural engineering teams are under increasing pressure to deliver faster, reduce rework, and maintain high-quality QA/QC across every project. In this session, InspectMind will demonstrate how AI-powered plan checking can help structural engineers review drawings and specifications, identify coordination gaps, catch inconsistencies, flag potential code-related issues, and surface risks before submission.

Bull Moose Tube Company ("Bull Moose"), a leading manufacturer of steel pipe & tubing products, announced that it has reached an agreement to acquire Hanna Steel Corporation, a leading producer of structural and mechanical steel tubing with operations in Alabama and Illinois, a coil-coating facility in Alabama, as well as Hanna Truck Line, Inc., Hanna Steel's in-house trucking fleet. The transaction is expected to close in early Q3 2026, subject to customary closing conditions.

Skip to main content Premier resource for practicing structural engineers News About Us Ask Archie Search the website News About Us Ask Archie Sign up to our Newsletter Creating a Concrete Skybridge ConnectionBy Songtao Liao, Benjamin Pimentel, Matthew Segerman, and Yu Huang One South First is an interconnected twin-tower high-rise enabled by innovative structural and formwork solutions.

For over a century, GERB has been a trailblazer in vibration isolation and structural motion control, assisting engineers and architects to protect some of the world’s most demanding structures. From slender skyscrapers and long-span footbridges to monumental staircases and critical infrastructure, GERB offers innovative Wall Dampers, Tuned and Active Mass Dampers (TMD and AMD) and 3D Base Control (3D-BCS) systems that enhance structural performance, occupant comfort, and seismic resilience.

To view the figures and tables associated with this article, please refer to the flipbook above. Alton, Illinois is located approximately 6-miles upstream from St. Louis and 200-miles south of the Burlington Bridge. It sits on a bluff overlooking the river with lowlands on the west side (Missouri) of the river. The shipping channel was close to the Alton side of the river but had been known to shift depending on the river flow.

At its essence, getting the work can be distilled down to reaching an agreement with a client concerning the services they need you to provide for them. Sounds simple right? Perhaps it was simple several generations ago. Back then, you personally knew the client, you reached a verbal agreement defining the services you would provide, you shook hands, you did the work and you sent a bill when the work was completed, with a full expectation that you would get paid.

Since 1956, Strongwell has developed hundreds of fiber reinforced polymer (FRP) structural shapes, plate, gratings, planking, railing, fencing, structural building panels, and much more, proudly made in the U.S.A. in one of three ISO 9001 certified facilities. Strongwell FRP is also Build America, Buy America Act (BABAA) compliant, which helps to bolster domestic manufacturing, build more resilient supply chains, and supports good-paying American jobs.

To view the figures and tables associated with this article, please refer to the flipbook above. With the advancement of building technology in the past two decades, some high-rise buildings with interconnected towers through skybridges have been developed around the world for their unique iconic architectural profiles. Notable examples include the American Copper Building in New York City, Marina Bay Sands in Singapore, and Raffles City in Chongqing, China.