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Snøhetta completes lush, open office in timber

Designed by Snøhetta, the new timber office building for trekking and travel company ASI Reisen, situated in Natters, Austria, is inspired by a symbiosis between nature and humanity. Surrounded by a lush exterior, the four-story structure combines timber frame construction with solid wooden elements to optimize material use and allow for the greatest amount of open floor plans.

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ACI and Post-Tensioning Institute partner to improve design efficiency

The American Concrete Institute (ACI) and the Post-Tensioning Institute (PTI) are partnering to increase design efficiency of structural post-tensioned concrete structures. While the two organizations and their members have worked collaboratively for decades, this partnership formalizes efforts through the new joint ACI-PTI Committee 320, Post-Tensioned Structural Concrete Code, ACI said.

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