For expanded details on wood shear walls, including wind resistance guidelines/alternatives and extensive visual resources, view APA’s on-demand webinar “Shear Wall Selection for Wood-Framed Buildings ...

There is a growing interest in using coupled composite plate shear walls/ concrete-filled (CPSW/CF) for high-rise building construction, particularly to optimize the design for wind and/or seismic ...

This research was conducted with support from the Charles Pankow Foundation (CPF), the American Institute of Steel Construction (AISC), the MKA Foundation, and Atlas Tube/Zekelman through CPF research ...

A radically different shear-wall core system for simpler and speedier construction of steel-framed high-rise office buildings is about to make its debut. The coupled steel-plate composite wall ...

Q:I'm an architect who has also done my fair share of swinging a hammer. I enjoy your column, but once in a while you miss on some details. In this instance, you recommended fastening shear ply ...