For over a century, wood pole structures have been used to support overhead powerlines. Over time, as the utility industry expanded, the basic wood pole structure has evolved, but regardless of ...

While no building is truly fireproof, construction materials and systems can make a building fire safe. Fire-resistive construction gives time to discover a fire, suppress it before it spreads and ...

Modern transmission line projects face several challenges with different priorities than projects in the past. There is now more emphasis on reducing environmental impacts, producing aesthetically ...

The ARE comprises a new, shorter configuration with a forward-swept horizontal tail plane (HTP), offering weight savings and laminar flow aerodynamics for fuel savings. Photo credit, all images: ...

Composites enable next-generation rigid airship design. LTA Research’s Pathfinder 1, its first full-scale, electric-powered prototype airship, is shown here during construction in Mountain View, Calif ...