Tower gets go-ahead for new core design

Published May 8, 2018 This content is archived.

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An article on Durability + Design about a panel that has given the go-ahead for construction of Seattle’s Rainier Square Tower, an 850-foot-tall structure that will feature a composite structural steel frame instead of the traditional steel frame around a reinforced concrete core interviews Michel Bruneau, professor of civil, structural and environmental engineering.

“On the basis of what we’ve seen, this is an excellent application [of the module], and it will be pioneering in its use in further high-rise construction,” he said, calling the system “so clever, I don’t understand why it hasn’t been done before.”

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