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Local sheet metal workers union is demanding an independent investigation into the HVAC collapse that happened at the Gaylord Rockies Resort on May 6.

From wall bracing to FTAO, there are many ways to secure the walls of a building. Learn how to evaluate which method is best for a project. 

The council in late April considered the purchase and installation of shade structures for two play areas in the community park. It instructed the staff to proceed with the purchase,

This years record snowpack along with saturated soils have led to 100 documented landslides across the state and there are many more that have not yet been discovered.

After advocates approached the Ohio Department of Transportation, it decided to add universal changing tables in 28 rest areas planned for renovation.

The Department of Lands has signed an agreement with federal and tribal partners making the state more responsible for wildland-urban interface areas, which are known to attract costly wildfires and have little building regulations.

Tallwood Project tested a 10-story mass timber building for seismic resistance on the world's largest earthquake simulator.

While we cannot control where the earthquakes occur and how intensely the ground shakes, we do have some control over where and how we build.

(SAN DIEGO) -- Researchers have successfully simulated a high magnitude earthquake on the largest building ever tested, and the structure survived. Global interest in mass timber construction -- which involves thick, compressed layers of wood, bonded together, creating structural load-bearing elements -- has skyrocketed in the last several years, after the International Building Code announced the

"It's not a matter of being overly aggressive or more aggressive — it's just working through the backlog of those inspections," Mayor Mboka Mwilambwe said in a recent interview for Sound Ideas. "We would be devastated if something were to happen because it's something that we overlooked."