Celebrating the topping out of Rainier Square Tower in Seattle today! It's the FIRST high-rise use of #SpeedCore (a concrete-filled composite plate shear wall system) topping out in just 10 months thanks to the amazing steel fabricators & erection crew! #mkawesome #researchrocks
Structural Engineers - Check out @PankowFdn new research report Substantiating Design Coefficients and Factors for Coupled Composite Plate Shear Walls-Concrete Filled, RGA #05-17 by Michel Bruneau @UBuffalo and @prof_varma @PurdueEngineers
The Embodied Carbon Calculator for Construction is an open source tool that tracks emissions of raw building materials helping better report and reduce embodied carbon. Thanks to Prof. Kate Simonen of UW for her continued championing of the project!
‘Carbon accountability’: UW architecture professor Kate Simonen sees progress in work to reduce embodied carbon in construction materials
Kate Simonen, architect, engineer and UW associate professor of architecture, discusses recent work by her and the Carbon Leadership Forum toward redu...
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Congrats to Michel Bruneau, named a Distinguished Professor by the SUNY Board of Trustees. Dr. Bruneau has been a key contributor to research on Concrete-Filled Composite Plate Shear Walls. This new "speedcore" technology saves months off construction timelines. #researchrocks
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“Congrats to longtime #UBuffalo engineering professor Michel Bruneau (and Law's Errol Meidinger) on being named SUNY Distinguished Professors, t...
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Congrats to Michel Bruneau, named a Distinguished Professor by the SUNY Board of Trustees. Dr. Bruneau has been a key contributor to research on Concrete-Filled Composite Plate Shear Walls. This new "speedcore" technology saves months off construction timelines. #researchrocks
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“Congrats to longtime #UBuffalo engineering professor Michel Bruneau (and Law's Errol Meidinger) on being named SUNY Distinguished Professors, t...
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MKA Foundation congratulates Devin Huber, P.E., Ph.D., the new Director of Research at @aisc . #researchrocks
Tomorrow in NYC, join MKA's Ron Klemencic and other leaders involved in the development of the revolutionary "SpeedCore" (Concrete-Filled Composite Plate Shear Walls), being used on Seattle's Rainier Square Redevelopment project! #researchrocks #aisc #siny
Concrete-Filled Composite Plate Shear Walls
Speed – Like Never Before! Concrete-Filled Composite Plate Shear Walls Friday, October 5, 2018, 8:30 a.m-12:30 p.m. The TimesCenter, 242 West 41st S...
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Let’s advance Performance-Based Structural Fire Engineering in the US. ASCE Structural Engineering Institute announced a new research project to develop exemplar design guidance in accordance with the new ASCE/SEI 7-16 Appendix E industry standard. #researchrocks #MKAdvancing
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“New Research Grant; RGA #04-18 with ASCE/SEI Advancing Performance-Based Structural Fire Engineering Design in the U.S. through Exemplar Proced...
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Testing continues at UCLA on Nonlinear Performance of Coupling Beams Under Wind Loads. The research aims to gather data on coupling beams under EXTREME winds to advance PBD Wind design for buildings. Here's MKA's Kevin Aswegan standing next to a specimen for scale! #researchrocks
