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Concrete’s cobra effect: unintended results of embodied carbon reduction

Construction Specifier

Many well-meaning design and construction professionals have adopted the atomistic approach of simply removing cement and replacing it with supplementary cementitious materials (SCMs), such as fly ash, granulated blast furnace slag (GGBS), or limestone rich cement recipes such as Portland Limestone Cement (PLC).

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Designing the oft-overlooked transition between air barrier and fenestration

Construction Specifier

The Slate apartment in Portland, Oregon. Photo ©Joshua Jay Elliot/courtesy Works Progress Architecture. Specifying an air barrier system in commercial buildings can improve indoor air quality (IAQ), provide energy savings by reducing heating and cooling cost, help control air leakage, and support sustainable design.

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Designing the overlooked transition between air barrier and fenestration

Construction Specifier

The Slate apartment in Portland, Oregon. Photo ©Joshua Jay Elliot/courtesy Works Progress Architecture. Specifying an air barrier system in commercial buildings can improve indoor air quality (IAQ), provide energy savings by reducing heating and cooling cost, help control air leakage, and support sustainable design.

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Green Home Building and Sustainable Architecture: Magnesium.

Natural Building

Green Home Building and Sustainable Architecture. Sustainable architecture is an exciting and important field, with many people reviving traditional methods of building and others creating innovations to established practices. View my complete profile. Green Electrical Contracting. Responding to Catastrophe.

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Meet BREEAM, America’s Newest Green Building Certification

Viewpoint Construction Technology

Viewpoint’s Portland headquarters is a LEED Gold building , so we’re certainly familiar with the goals of those who want to achieve green building certification, as well as the challenges along the way. The BREEAM certification process was developed in 1990 and uses a rating system to assess building sustainability in a variety of categories.

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Construction Management Salaries: What You Need to Know

Fieldwire

You can earn an associate’s, bachelor’s, or master’s degree in construction management or related field like engineering or architecture. And as construction continues to become more complex and automated, learning the latest technologies will definitely set you apart.

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Concrete admixture

GCP Applied Technologies

Organic water reducers – Most offered here are an aqueous solution of modified lignosulfonates containing a catalyst which promotes more complete hydration of Portland cement. CLSM – This additive produces engineered Controlled Low Strength Material (CLSM) that is highly flowable, volume stable and excavatable in the future.

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