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Building for better fire resilience in WUI zones

Construction Specifier

Photo courtesy ROCKWOOL North America Photo courtesy By Rick Roos Wildfires continue to make headlines and the long-term prognosis is concerning, as experts forecast more of the same in coming years. Yet, building in wildland urban interface (WUI) zones continues at a fast pace. Primarily for affordability. Primarily for affordability.

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Comfort Systems Road Map: A Plug-and-Play Residential Duct System

Pro Builder

Comfort Systems Road Map: A Plug-and-Play Residential Duct System. How strategic Building America research helped create an innovative, market-ready HVAC solution for heating and cooling ducts inside conditioned spaces. Today, PEX is the predominant plumbing system in new residential construction. . Mon, 09/27/2021 - 15:05.

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Passive House is “In” in 2017

Green Building Law Update

The number and size of Passive House projects in North America has rapidly grown in the last year. Several mid-rise residential projects currently under construction will more than quadruple the number of available units and triple the square footage of Passive buildings.

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Achieving aesthetics and energy efficiency with stone wool insulation

Construction Specifier

Photo © ROCKWOOL North America. Maximizing energy efficiency is the order of the day for construction industry professionals across North America, due, in part, to changing codes and a growing contingent of forward-thinking developers, owners, architects, specifiers, and energy consultants. Photo © ROCKWOOL North America.

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Daikin

Contractor Magazine

The Daikin Texas Technology Park (DTTP) is a new state-of-the art business campus that consolidates many of Daikin’s HVAC (Heating, Ventilating, and Air Conditioning) manufacturing and logistics facilities across North America. Daikin invested over $400 million to construct the facility on a 500 acre site just outside of Houston, TX.

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Net zero building design and air leakage

GCP Applied Technologies

climate zones 3 – 8 (all but the hottest southern regions) and ? climate zones 1 -2 (Florida, southern Texas and part of Arizona). Source: NIST Technical Note 1847, “ Design Challenges of the NIST Net Zero Energy Residential Test Facility ” March 2015, pg 4. North America customer service: 1-877-4AD-MIX (1-877-423-6491).

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LOCATION FOCUS: The Heartland of America Beats Strong

Buisness Facilities Contributed Content

Louis are Foreign Trade Zones, providing low-cost production and warehousing facilities for imported and export-bound products. Foreign trade zones also are located in Peoria, Lawrenceville, Rockford and the Quad Cities. Both the Illinois International Port District and the Tri-City Regional Port District near St.

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