Thanks to a number of key innovations, steel is playing a greater role in residential high-rises, senior and student housing, and taller mixed-use developments, says architect Jayshree Shah, AIA, ...

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Researchers at MIT have developed a construction system in which modular, interlocking building blocks ...

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