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Projects

Steel Connections

Stairs+Railings

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Abbreviated Jobs List

Residential-Single

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Rehab / Adaptive Reuse

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SW News

Newer PostFarAndNear

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Cagetories

SW News 138
Philosophy of Engineering 60
Structural Engineering? 33
Manifesto for Growth 30
Technical Tid Bits 27
Publications 24
Experiments 9

Index

2022 1
- Oct 14, 2022 Our Grant Program
2021 3
- Feb 16, 2021 30: Get a Drawing Pad with Digital Pen For Computer
- Feb 2, 2021 Shout Out to Our Steel Fabricators in New England
- Feb 2, 2021 First Hemp Lime House in the US
2020 8
- Dec 16, 2020 Our FEM Models vs Reality
- Nov 16, 2020 From In Form’s “A Cabin Afield” featured Dwell
- Nov 4, 2020 Our New Downtown Trayne Building is Complete!
- Nov 4, 2020 Lincoln School - Little School Building is Open
- May 2, 2020 New Lincoln School Structurally Complete!
- May 2, 2020 New Providence Library Ready to Open!
- Mar 13, 2020 Our 5-Story Job in NYC is Going Up!
- Jan 8, 2020 The New Trayne Building
2019 17
- Dec 13, 2019 Silent Trees?
- Dec 5, 2019 A View from a Tower Crane (Dartmouth College)
- Nov 12, 2019 Stainless Steel Pipes and Fabric on “Pressure Springs”
- Nov 6, 2019 Hybrid Delivery Case Studies
- Nov 4, 2019 Wood Design & Building Cover!
- Oct 29, 2019 Glass Elevator Wins Silver Prism Award
- Oct 1, 2019 Erik to Present at “Steel School”
- Jul 16, 2019 Providence Public Library - Steel Almost Complete
- Jun 26, 2019 Hitchcock Center receives “Living Building” Certification
- May 8, 2019 Walking Tour of Providence Hosted by Erik / SEARI
- May 1, 2019 Teach Forwards
- Apr 26, 2019 Our New 5 Story Building on Westminster is Going Up!
- Mar 5, 2019 Worcester Blackstone Visitors Center makes the Architectural Record!
- Feb 22, 2019 Boston Children's Hospital
- Feb 4, 2019 "Ethical Decisions in Engineering Practice" ASCE Conference in Orlando
- Feb 4, 2019 Blackstone Visitor Center
- Jan 25, 2019 Hitchcock Center for the Environment Wins Award
2018 3
- Dec 17, 2018 9 Projects in Providence in Construction
- Aug 23, 2018 Structures Workshop Celebrates 10 Years!
- May 1, 2018 Forum on Philosophy, Engineering, and Technology
2017 4
- Oct 2, 2017 Worcester Blackstone Visitors Center - Steel 90% Complete
- Sep 28, 2017 A Selective History of the Forests and Wood Construction in the US
- Mar 3, 2017 MIT Theater Almost Complete
- Mar 1, 2017 Cottage in the Woods Published in Dezeen
2016 18
- Oct 10, 2016 Some Random Current Projects
- Jul 5, 2016 Walnut Hill is 99% Complete!
- Jul 5, 2016 Micro Lofts Selected for Sustainia100
- Jun 29, 2016 Hitchcock Center's "Living Building"
- Jun 29, 2016 Wallnut Hill School Studio 5 is Nearly Complete
- Jun 23, 2016 Taylor St House in list of "5 Best Houses in Mass"
- Jun 21, 2016 FarAndNear
- Jun 21, 2016 House in Nantucket
- Jun 21, 2016 Cottage in Foster Award
- Jun 21, 2016 A home in Boston we designed
- Mar 6, 2016 Glulam End Connections for Hitchcock Center
- Mar 6, 2016 Wood Tread / Steel Stringer Stair Complete
- Mar 6, 2016 JWU Steel Plate Stair
- Mar 6, 2016 Cambridge Friends School Canopy
- Mar 6, 2016 Panapoly Pictures
- Mar 6, 2016 Providence Greenhouse Complete
- Mar 6, 2016 Nantucket Barn Almost Complete
- Mar 6, 2016 United completes UConn IPB Steel Casting
2015 6
- Aug 30, 2015 MassArt Canopy Complete
- Aug 15, 2015 Kurgo Container Project Complete
- Jul 30, 2015 Trusses at Cowboy's Practice Field - In Contruction
- Jun 5, 2015 34th Annual Steel Conference Speaker
- May 30, 2015 Fenway Park Addition Complete
- Feb 7, 2015 Living Building Challenge and Passive House Projects
2014 9
- Oct 2, 2014 Facilities Building at Walnut Hill almost Complete
- Sep 29, 2014 We've moved!
- Aug 19, 2014 Long Span Stair without Stringers
- Jul 7, 2014 Philosophy of Engineering: What It Is and Why It Matters
- May 19, 2014 Concrete in Torsion
- Mar 18, 2014 Hanging Wood Sculpture Almost Complete at UMass Lowell
- Feb 9, 2014 Infinite Load Path Created in Steel House
- Feb 9, 2014 Truth (and Beauty) are Useless, Seek "Good" instead
- Jan 26, 2014 2013 - Another Record Year for SW
2013 41
- Dec 1, 2013 1: Understand Structural Engineering Itself
- Nov 30, 2013 2: Embrace the Process
- Nov 30, 2013 3: Listen
- Nov 29, 2013 4: Ask and Pursue
- Nov 28, 2013 5: Take Risks
- Nov 27, 2013 6: Accept Imperfection
- Nov 26, 2013 7: Forget about Goals
- Nov 25, 2013 8: Kick Ass
- Nov 24, 2013 9: Improve the Codes
- Nov 22, 2013 10: Become an Educator
- Nov 21, 2013 11: Become a Material
- Nov 19, 2013 12: Draw with a Pen
- Nov 18, 2013 13: Simplify Your Analysis Models
- Nov 17, 2013 14: Get into the Details
- Nov 16, 2013 15: Constantly Prod Yourself
- Nov 15, 2013 16: Know Engineering and Architecture History
- Nov 15, 2013 17: Do Not Seek Beauty, Let it just Become
- Nov 14, 2013 18: Throw Away Your Alarm Clock
- Nov 13, 2013 19: Succeed in Reducing Idiocy
- Nov 9, 2013 20: Worry Often
- Nov 7, 2013 21: Draw 1 to 1 Scale
- Nov 6, 2013 22: Buy Samples of Typical Structural Components
- Nov 5, 2013 23: Build Physical Models
- Nov 5, 2013 24: Feel and Flex Materials with Hands
- Nov 3, 2013 25: Don't Not Do It
- Nov 3, 2013 26: Take a Welding Class
- Nov 1, 2013 27: Sketch Poorly and Sketch Often
- Nov 1, 2013 28: Email Well (Less Words, More Pics)
- Oct 27, 2013 29: Stand instead of Sit
- Aug 27, 2013 Lincoln Center Theater
- Aug 25, 2013 An Inquiry into Quality - Nelson to Speak at SEAofNC
- Aug 16, 2013 Block Island House
- Jul 24, 2013 IRC 2012 / IBC 2012 / ASCE 7 10 - Why did wind speed increase 30mph?
- Jun 10, 2013 Single Plate Shear Connections with New Eccentricity
- Apr 22, 2013 Socrates, How is Engineering Knowledge Attained?
- Mar 28, 2013 Our QMA West Canopy Entrance is Erected
- Mar 28, 2013 Foster Cottage Structure Finished
- Mar 28, 2013 Block Island House Almost Complete
- Feb 25, 2013 Arcade transformed to Micro-Apartments
- Jan 9, 2013 Steel Complete on New Rochelle Project
- Jan 8, 2013 "Economical Welds" published in MSC
2012 60
- Dec 31, 2012 The Secret to Trusses
- Dec 31, 2012 Build a Lamella Dome
- Dec 31, 2012 The Perfect Arch
- Dec 31, 2012 Build the Golden Ratio
- Dec 31, 2012 Archimedes and Balance Beams
- Dec 31, 2012 Cable Y-Hangs and Pulleys
- Dec 31, 2012 Platonic Solids from Perfect Triangles
- Dec 31, 2012 Braced Frames vs Moment Frames
- Dec 31, 2012 Composite Beam Stiffness
- Dec 19, 2012 Harpoon Brewary Takes a New Shape
- Nov 30, 2012 Erik Nelson Interview on Civil Engineering Today
- Nov 26, 2012 Shipping Containers in Construction
- Nov 14, 2012 Listening is an underrated sense to us Engineers
- Nov 10, 2012 AEER-TF7 Arch/Eng Emergency Response Task Force 7
- Nov 7, 2012 Pics of 8 Residential Projects in Construction
- Oct 31, 2012 Science is Applied Engineering
- Oct 24, 2012 Long Island House Complete
- Oct 24, 2012 QMA Cantilevered Stair Erected
- Oct 6, 2012 Structural Art - Heat Plant at Brown University
- Sep 20, 2012 Washington DC License
- Sep 15, 2012 Visual Vs Verbal Thinkers
- Sep 15, 2012 Nervi's Aesthetics and Technology in Building
- Sep 11, 2012 Erik to Present at ASCE Dinner 9/20
- Aug 28, 2012 Our Mattapan Farmers Market Bike Finished
- Aug 16, 2012 EOR and Shear Connection Design of Steel Buildings
- Aug 14, 2012 Architects & Engineers Emergency Response Task Force 7
- Aug 3, 2012 Comparison of International Existing Building Code 2012 versus the Rhode Island State Rehabilitation Code
- Jul 20, 2012 Objective Beauty and Fazlur Kahn
- Jul 20, 2012 Breaking Records in 2012
- Jul 2, 2012 Manifesto for Growth Part 4
- Jun 30, 2012 Can Engineers be Replaced by Robots?
- Jun 28, 2012 Near-completion of the Duxbury Crematorium Building
- Jun 19, 2012 What We See Depends Mainly on What We Look For
- Jun 19, 2012 MIT Class Visits Fabricator
- Jun 4, 2012 Manifesto for Growth Part 3
- May 29, 2012 How do we improve our codes?
- May 8, 2012 The Truth of Structural Design
- May 2, 2012 Manifesto for Growth Part 2
- May 1, 2012 A Recent Day, Smelly Braced Frames
- May 1, 2012 Dreams, Mistakes and Uncomfortable Decisions
- Apr 7, 2012 Manifesto for Growth Part 1
- Mar 27, 2012 What makes an Engineer, an Engineer?
- Mar 27, 2012 Erik Nelson to present at Structures Congress in Chicago
- Feb 26, 2012 Structures Workshop invests in New Software
- Feb 15, 2012 Engineering Beginnings
- Feb 13, 2012 Engineering predates Science
- Feb 7, 2012 ASCE 7 Thickness Comparison
- Feb 6, 2012 Art Without Craft?
- Feb 2, 2012 The Stone Pulls the Horse
- Feb 1, 2012 What is Structural Engineering, Exactly?
- Jan 25, 2012 Indeed, Socrates, I do not know.
- Jan 25, 2012 Structures Workshop provides Estimated Quanties on Drawings
- Jan 12, 2012 Complex Foundation Modeled in BIM/Revit
- Jan 11, 2012 Structures Workshop wins 1st Prize for AFH Canopy
- Jan 8, 2012 Erik Presents Weld Design on Jan 8th, 2012
- Jan 5, 2012 Very Good But Long Definition of Structural Engineering
- Jan 4, 2012 Engineers want and have Meaning
- Jan 4, 2012 Engineers are Rigorously Logical Creative Artists
- Jan 4, 2012 Engineers are Self-Reflective
- Jan 4, 2012 Are Chefs Applied Non-Burners?
2011 39
- Dec 19, 2011 Long Island Guest House Almost Complete
- Dec 19, 2011 Engineers Make and Fix Stuff
- Dec 1, 2011 Lift House, Remove First Floor, Pour New Foundation
- Dec 1, 2011 Engineering requires Competence/Proficiency, not "Intelligence"
- Nov 20, 2011 Engineers are Visual Thinkers
- Nov 18, 2011 Erik presents "El Linked Hybrid y mi Manifiesto para el Crecimiento" in Mexico
- Nov 17, 2011 The Steel Yard project wins ASLA Honor Award!
- Nov 17, 2011 Artists for Humanity
- Nov 17, 2011 Duxbury Steel Erected
- Nov 14, 2011 60,000 Tons of Steel
- Nov 3, 2011 Artists For Humanity Canopy is being Erected Today
- Nov 1, 2011 Steel Yard on Cover of LAM
- Oct 30, 2011 Our Box Office Project makes Front Page of Projo
- Oct 26, 2011 Which part of Engineering is Offshorable?
- Oct 25, 2011 Bolt Clearance Issues
- Oct 25, 2011 Erik invited speaker to EDIFICIA in Mexico
- Oct 18, 2011 The Design of Design!
- Oct 17, 2011 The American Engineer?
- Oct 17, 2011 Is Engineering closer to Art than to Science?
- Oct 17, 2011 Engineering is the Use of Engineering Heuristics
- Oct 16, 2011 My Definition
- Oct 16, 2011 A Completely Wrong Utterly Untrue Definition
- Oct 16, 2011 A Misleading Definition
- Oct 16, 2011 A Consequentialist Definition
- Oct 16, 2011 A Flawed Definition
- Oct 16, 2011 A Popular Definition
- Oct 16, 2011 Shipping Container Engineering
- Oct 16, 2011 Coastal Construction in Rhode Island
- Oct 16, 2011 Structures Workshop Wins Gold for Box Office!
- Oct 15, 2011 Recommended Reading on Engineering and Architecture
- Oct 15, 2011 Recommended Reading on Engineering and Philosophy
- Oct 15, 2011 Engineering is Synthesis, not Analysis
- Oct 15, 2011 Engineering is Constrained Invention
- Aug 14, 2011 12 Projects Currently in Construction
- Jul 14, 2011 3 years and 150 projects
- Apr 14, 2011 Simple Shear Connections – Not So Simple
- Mar 14, 2011 Making Connections – The Linked Hybrid Project
- Feb 14, 2011 Panel Discussion at AIA-RI on "Revit-BIM"
- Jan 14, 2011 Lincoln Center Theater Truss
2010 12
- Sep 14, 2010 7 Projects in Construction
- Sep 14, 2010 Raised the Roof
- Sep 14, 2010 The Box Office is on NPR
- Aug 14, 2010 3 Pro Bono Projects in Construction
- Aug 14, 2010 Now Licensed in Illinois
- May 14, 2010 Practical Seismic Design
- Apr 14, 2010 SEAM "From the Green Book to the Black"
- Mar 14, 2010 SEAMass "AISC 13th Ed" with Bill Thornton
- Mar 14, 2010 13 Simple Steps to making Structural Art
- Jan 30, 2010 Fillet welds instead of CJP welds
- Jan 14, 2010 Video of Box Office hits You Tube
- Jan 14, 2010 Structures Workshop obtained a license in Maine
2009 9
- Nov 14, 2009 Philosophy and Engineering
- Oct 14, 2009 From CAD to BIM
- Aug 14, 2009 6 projects currently in Construction
- Jul 14, 2009 New York Barn
- Jun 14, 2009 Box Office breaks ground
- Apr 14, 2009 Revit 2010 Essentials
- Feb 14, 2009 URI Glass Entrance Canopy Erected
- Jan 14, 2009 IFAW wins 6 Awards
- Jan 14, 2009 Linkded Hybrid Wins Best Tall building Overall from CTBUH
2008 8
- Dec 14, 2008 BIM and the Structural Engineering Community
- Oct 14, 2008 Form Finding Techniques in Practice
- Sep 14, 2008 VP of SEARI
- Sep 14, 2008 Sentosa Crane Ballet
- Aug 14, 2008 Now Licensed in New Hampshire
- Jul 14, 2008 Twilight of the Idols
- Apr 14, 2008 Lincoln Center Hypar Roof
- Mar 14, 2008 The Structure that Sings
2007 4
- Oct 14, 2007 Infinite Load Path?
- May 14, 2007 Participation Mystique
- Jan 14, 2007 Jinhua Pavilion #16 wins AIA Citation LA 2007
- Jan 14, 2007 Architects are from Plato
2006 2
- Jun 14, 2006 Curious Deflection
- Jan 25, 2006 World Trade Center Building Damage Survey

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