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What Are The Uses Of PVA In Manufacturing And Construction?

Construction Marketing

In Cement And Concrete Mixes. Adding PVA to cement and concrete mixers helps create a strong bond between particles. As a result, your product can enhance your building’s strength or similar projects like roads or concrete columns. . When you use PVA in textiles, it helps improve the strength and durability of your fabrics.

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The next phase of sustainability in luxury hotels

BD+C

The next phase of sustainability in luxury hotels 0 qpurcell Fri, 09/15/2023 - 11:42 Hotel Facilities The luxury hotel market has seen an increase in green-minded guests looking for opportunities to support businesses that are conscientious of the environment. And consumers are happy to spend more money on those brands.

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Concrete mix design

GCP Applied Technologies

Concrete mix design. concrete / mix design. . Control flow concrete. Control flow concrete. Of all the enhancements we can make to concrete through the proper use of admixtures, entrainment of air is the most difficult. Control flow concrete. michael.delros…. Fri, 03/06/2020 - 18:13. March 06, 2020.

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Tensile architecture: Where substance meets style

Construction Specifier

Photos courtesy Huntsman By David Peragallo Tensile architecture, also known as tensile structures or fabric architecture, is becoming a popular choice for applications such as stadiums, airport hubs, train and bus stations, exhibition halls, event pavilions, and temporary structures such as festival tents.

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Style meets substance in the design and materiality of tensile architecture

Construction Specifier

Photos courtesy Huntsman By David Peragallo Tensile architecture, also known as tensile structures or fabric architecture, is becoming a popular choice for applications such as stadiums, airport hubs, train and bus stations, exhibition halls, event pavilions, and temporary structures such as festival tents.

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Building Trends: An Old Material Becomes New Again

Viewpoint Construction Technology

Architects are looking to wood—specifically cross-laminated timber—as an alternative to steel and concrete for high-rise buildings. Concrete, on the other hand, has a high carbon footprint since creating it requires a lot of energy. The Bullitt Center in Seattle , for example, is made largely from timber on a concrete base.

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Covering it all: Investigating lightweight cladding

Construction Specifier

With advancements in material science, the benefits of such cladding are increasing, and it is no longer necessary to use heavy materials such as masonry, concrete, metal panels, precast, porcelain, or even fiber cement to achieve the look of brick, wood, concrete, or metal.