Designing Green
Attempting to design more sustainably and being green is common in the construction industry.
Structural engineers hear these terms and wonder how they can contribute to more sustainable designs. The challenge isn't how structural engineers can contribute, instead it is meeting the typical requirements of safety and serviceability while collaborating with design team members to innovate and find more synergistic solutions.
Emily Lorenz, Engineer, and Martha VanGeem, Principal Engineer and co-chair of the Green Solutions practice group at CTLGroup, co-authored this May 2011 Modern Steel Construction article. It addresses challenges for the structural engineer related to two sustainable design strategies: designing for deconstruction and local sourcing.
Click here to view the full article (located on pages 52-53).
Source: Modern Steel Construction
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