WASHINGTON — A nine-story apartment building in the Alexandria section of Fairfax County, Virginia, will need extensive work water-deteriorated columns gave way, dropping the building 2 to 3 inches.

Construction workers remove non-original parts of the Wedge Building, exposing columns that have been hidden for decades. The columns were covered up when a teller window was installed on the point of ...

Metal building system builders have an option to use straight columns or tapered columns to hold up the structure. In many metal building applications, straight columns may have more steel than they ...

Local developer and contractor Chris Cook has bought The Columns on 11th Avenue and soon will be using the former bank building as a banquet hall. Mirror file photo Local developer and contractor ...

Close your eyes and ask yourself, “What does Harvard look like?” What do you see? Brick buildings, perhaps? Iron gates, Corinthian columns, sweeping façades? You’d be right if you conjured any of the ...

HOUSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Westlake Royal Building Products™ (“Westlake Royal”), a Westlake company (NYSE:WLK), is pleased to introduce its Royal™ Knock Down ...

The lustrous ceiling is supported on concrete columns whose tops swell into broad caps resembling lily pads, prompting Wright to compare the space to a forest glade. Structural engineers were ...