Q. Tim, I’ve never worked with metal joist hangers. How long have joist hangers been around? When I hold one in my hand, I question whether it’s actually strong enough to support all the weight that ...

Where a cantilevered concrete system may be a fairly common feature in today’s concrete buildings, a cantilevered concrete system that the majority of the building rests above draws some attention.

The canopy consists of a 145 x 45mm tongued-and-grooved timber deck with a two-layer turf roof system supported by eight 450 x 135mm tapered glulam beams. To minimise the number of columns required ...

In 1997, with his design for the Bicentennial Building of the College of Engineering at Anna University, structural engineering wizard Prof. A.R. Santhakumar introduced the city to the load-bearing ...