Fewer cross-ties, simpler link beams and less fire protection. The nearly 1.4-million-sq-ft 200 Park high-rise in San José, Calif., though only 300 ft tall, has taken Seattle’s 850-ft-tall proof of ...

Purdue engineers are taking building possibilities to new heights with the university’s role in the research and development of an innovative high-rise construction process. Rainier Square, a 58-story ...

Seattle's Rainier Square Tower, shown under construction but now nearing completion, is the 850-ft-tall proof of concept for the SpeedCore system. Supporters of a high-rise lateral-load resisting ...

The American Institute of Steel Construction has released Design Guide 38, SpeedCore Systems for Steel Structures. The document pertains to the nonproprietary concrete-filled composite steel plate ...

What is SpeedCore? Technically, it's a Concrete-Filled Composite Plate Shear Wall (CF-CPSW) system. In laymen's terms, it's a faster, safer, and more efficient way of building a high-rise, and it's ...

SpeedCore, a composite superstructure system composed of concrete sandwiched between steel plates, recently achieved two notable accomplishments. Purdue University researchers completed an ...

That’s about 10 months quicker than it normally takes to build such a structure. The accelerated pace was made possible in part due to ongoing research by Michel Bruneau, a SUNY Distinguished ...

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