Lack of recognition of key aspects related to building construction is one of the top five common threads when analyzing firefighter fatality case studies. A good number of times, this lack of ...

Chicago Firefighters Corey Ankum and Ed Stringer were killed Wednesday while searching a vacant South Shore building after a fire. Two others were trapped and, in all, 17 were injured. Only one ...

truss — A framework of triangulated forms in which all loads are carried by compression or tension in each member of the frame. It is time for the fire service to make peace with an old nemesis: the ...

MOUNT CARBON – The expert hired to restore the Mount Carbon bowstring iron truss bridge says the 128-year-old span is a real historical gem. “On a preservation scale, it’s a nine or 10,” Doug Lockhart ...

Blacksburg, Va. – An unusual bowstring truss iron bridge that carried traffic across Roaring Run in Bedford County, Va. for almost 100 years is now a picturesque footbridge at the I-81 Ironto, Va.

A team led by architect Perkins&Will and Thompson Construction is creatively using inverted bowstring trusses to transform a Tulsa Macy’s department store built in 1994 into a new city icon—the slick ...