Construction Specifier

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

From Portland, Maine to Portland, Oregon, many cities are contending with government and school buildings from the last century, built with solid masonry bearing walls. In this way, overcladding shares characteristics with rainscreen systems, and overclad enclosures can be considered as rainscreens in design and construction evaluation.

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Natural Building

OCTOBER 26, 2019

WholeTrees Structures , a Wisconsin-based design and construction company, finds both architectural opportunity and environmental advantage in designing and building with intact tree trunks that would otherwise be culled. Intact wood has a lighter environmental impact than engineered wood and a much lighter impact than steel.

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Construction Specifier

JULY 5, 2022

At the same time, growing preference for absorptive cladding materials like fiber cement has made moisture management more important than ever, with some manufacturers even going as far as to require drainage gaps behind materials. space between the weather-resistant barrier and the exterior veneer, and integrated flashings.

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Construction Test

MAY 5, 2020

A humble pineapple cake shop may, in architectural terms, be rather removed from an elaborate Olympic Stadium. I’ve even managed to arrange a stay at the luxurious, Kuma-designed Capitol Tokyu Hotel in Akasaka with its arresting and unmistakably Japanese lobby and standalone, pavilion-like restaurant.

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Natural Building

MARCH 12, 2020

I attended my first natural building workshop in Oregon in 1993. Building with locally-harvested materials reduces GHG emissions from both the manufacturing and transportation sectors, sometimes nearly to zero. You can use machinery to mix clay, sand, and straw into cob — or you can use your feet.

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Materials Sustainability Travel Regulation 97

Buisness Facilities Contributed Content

APRIL 15, 2014

architectural and engineering, interest incurred during construction, etc.). TVA Economic Development Loan Fund: A multimillion-dollar revolving loan program designed to stimulate investment and job creation in the TVA region. Enterprise Zone Credit or Exemption: The Alabama Enterprise Zone Act (Act. Pollution control equipment.

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Buisness Facilities Contributed Content

MARCH 21, 2014

ENTERPRISE ZONE CREDIT: To stimulate growth in depressed areas of the state, Alabama offers certain tax credit incentives to business that locate or expand within a designated enterprise zone. architectural and engineering, interest incurred during construction, etc.). Three of the nation’s 40 Renewal Community areas are in Alabama.

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Income Finance Zoning Equipment 75

Autodesk Construction Cloud

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

In a short span of time, he has become the go-to reference for all things digital in the company, including information management, BIM, technology, devices, data, IoT, and BI—focusing on the bidding, design and construction phases. of work for projects involving tunneling, highway reconstruction, and rail transit design.

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Construction BIM San Francisco Management 52