The manufacture of glazed architectural terracotta is a complex process. The clay used for the manufacture of architectural terracotta has a shrinkage coefficient of between 3% and 6%......
A building’s façade sets its style, form and brand, but as well as achieving the architect’s vision, the façade engineer’s design must consider many other factors including buildability, maintenance, life-cycle, sustainability and safety......
Although tall buildings of 300m height and over are still rising in places such as Malaysia and Hong Kong as literal symbols of economic ambition, no such projects seems to be on the drawing boards in the US. This has certainly been a result of the 9/11 disaster......
Most people would agree that prevention is better than cure, but in some instances prevention is impossible, leaving the cure as the only option. This is the situation with so-called Regent Street disease (RSD). The problem however is not confined to London’s Regent Street......
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