Hot-rolled steel purlins predate modern metal building systems by decades. A multitude of industrial buildings constructed since the beginning of the twentieth century utilized hot-rolled channel and ...

Concrete and steel buildings leave behind a carbon footprint, and are thought to be responsible for about 8% and 5% of global emissions respectively. Wood, on the other hand, stores carbon instead ...

are porous materials formed by the combination of metal ions and organic ligands, resulting in structures similar to rebar in buildings. The design principle underlying MOFs closely resembles ...