A chilled beam is an air distribution device with an integral coil that may be installed within a space in order to provide sensible cooling and heating. There are two main types of chilled beams: ...

Meet Amanda and Stacy Beam. She’s a designer. He’s an artist. She embraces the big picture. He feasts on details. Together they are the dynamic owners of Beam Design Group, an innovative company ...

Composite beams have become an integral element in modern structural engineering, combining dissimilar materials to exploit their complementary mechanical properties. This field of study encompasses ...

Over the years, through projects such as the Green School and homes at the Green Village, bamboo has become an increasingly popular material in Bali, Indonesia. While design firms in Bali such as ...

Scan the skyline of New York City and it’s almost everywhere you look. Same thing with Chicago and Philadelphia and just about any big city where the buildings poke into the sky. Everyone knows ...

The 42,000-sq.ft. Davis Building's geothermal system supplies 58°F to 62°F closed circuit ground source water to ceiling-mounted, active chilled beams. Chilled beams reduce fan energy by up to 50 ...

A recent series of dynamic tests demonstrates that there are several types and doses of steel-fiber reinforcement that can be used in performance-based seismic design of coupling beams—headers that ...