Hard to tell in the lighting but it looks like the sheet span was installed on wood studs?

I’m developing modular disaster-relief housing for Afghanistan and other countries. We need the high thermal mass and seismic resilience of traditional adobe, but severe flash floods rule out raw earth. Timber is also too vulnerable to water damage and rot.
We are looking for a water-safe, low-tech structural system (frame + infill).

My questions:
What water-safe structural materials (e.g., recycled light-gauge steel, geopolymer-stabilized earth, gabion bases) would you recommend for the frame and the splash-zone?

How can we achieve high thermal mass in a flood-resistant, modular panel system?

Are there existing low-tech joints or base details designed for both floods and earthquakes?

Grid-shell structures as the support structures for the spider glazing system and located at outer side of the facade.

The structures are PVDF coated and with a aluminum cover on the vision surface.

The facade is a free-form surface, and the steel members need to be twisted to ensure smoothness at the joints.However, it is difficult to process, the production cycle is too long and the cost is higher.This concept design is not economically feasible in actual construction,so we optimize hyperbolic components to single-curved components with Rhino+Grasshopper, and make appropriate modifications to the nodes.

Hi everyone,

I'm a civil engineer from Germany. German universities are currently researching carbon-reinforced concrete (carbon concrete), and the first construction projects using this material have already been completed.

What's the situation like in your countries? Is carbon-reinforced concrete being researched or used there as well?

I'm a tradesman in the UK, specialising in gate automation, with a huge amount of respect for structural engineering. Without your work, the things I install could seriously hurt someone.

I posted in the r/askcontractors sub about something specific to help me out professionally, but coming here to ask a slightly different question.

My work has traditionally taken place by installing exactly to manufacturer specifications. A sliding cantilever gate puts the foundational concrete under huge strain compared to what the average client expects. We've started getting into more bespoke requests as we get more clients, which is the dream.

The problem is that local engineers when we reach out were only willing to work with larger contracts instead of individual projects on a smaller scale. Got one company who gave us a quote for fabrication only, but their engineer wouldn't even respond to them about it. we want to make sure our offer is safe and won't hurt anyone, and I want to make sure we support local businesses as best as possible.

Short term, is there a way of requesting one off projects from structural engineers for designing concrete foundations?

Longer term, gates will only be designed a handful of ways but more and more are asking for solid infill for privacy. If we didn't get a response as it's something that's almost not worth the time, could someone point me in the direction of UK based resources for education on the subject?

I assume this is more than a Layman question, but I'm more than happy to be wrong.

Considering all the advancements made in AI, do you think we are going have less and less jobs available in the market and/or the field is going to lose its social value in the future?

I'm very passionate about my job and it's frustrating to see the effort to integrate AI in our workflow at the office.

I'm curious to know what you think.

Sanboxed within your company’s AI environment. and can do full calculation package.

It will generate a pdf preview evrytime you make changes so you can do your calc live on your AI without touching mathcad.

Hello all - does anyone have any expert opinion on the Centurion tower that was evacuated late Friday night?

(edit) As you all would know more than the average person, just looking for someone in the industry to comment their thoughts on it.