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How To Manage VOCs In Construction

Construction Marketing

ppm for mobile homes. Otherwise, you can skip wood and use other ceramic tiles, slate, and concrete, if possible. In some cases, the product may bear an environment-friendly certification or other forms of acknowledgment for being sustainable. mg/m³ total Volatile Organic Compounds (TVOCs). Address the source.

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Sustainable construction products and technologies

GCP Applied Technologies

SUSTAINABLE CONCRETE | SUSTAINABLE CEMENT | SUSTAINABLE BUILDING ENVELOPE. SUSTAINABLE CONCRETE. Considering cement production—a primary component of concrete—accounts for roughly 5% of the entire global emissions carbon footprint, producing more sustainable concrete is among the most important topics in construction today.

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Resilient Flooring: The sustainable specification

Construction Specifier

So much of resilient flooring in commercial applications is installed over concrete slabs. Is the goal to achieve certification from a green building rating system? • In senior living communities, LVT is specified often because it provides a nice homey feel for the residents and is durable for mobility device traffic.

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3 important early considerations for office-to-residential conversions

BD+C

Are you pursuing LEED Well certification? The impact noise or vibration travels though floorboards in walls, through concrete. Technology mobility is constantly evolving, but post-pandemic residents will need the ability to seamlessly work remotely from their portable devices. It’s more stringent than apartments.

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20 construction industry trends to watch in 2020

Building Radar

Now the data already recorded for the EnEV certificate can be used as the basis for a building eco-balance. But even beyond BIM, the cloud in the construction industry enables a shared team room as an online workspace – also via mobile devices – for correspondence, documentation and archiving, making project work much easier.

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Ready mix concrete resource

GCP Applied Technologies

Ready mix concrete resource. The perishability of ready mix concrete makes it a complex product to ship. There's also a growing demand for sustainable concrete, to lower cement's carbon footprint—5% of global emissions come from cement production. Let's look at some of the technologies driving the ready mix concrete industry….

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How To Reduce Risk On Construction Projects

ProcurementExpress.com

The actual roof deck was a floor deck including the concrete slab. . Everything was going well on this project until the building inspector came to sign off on the certificate of occupancy. The project required about twenty thousand cubic metres of concrete, which was produced from our concrete mixing plant on site.

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