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Hazardous Waste Management: How Environmental Consulting Can Help

Construction Marketing

This is where environmental consulting comes into the picture. This article briefly outlines how hiring an environmental consultancy can help manage hazardous waste. Working with an environmental consulting company can make managing and complying with waste disposal regulations far more seamless for corporations.

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Achieving Safer School Design with Secure Entry Vestibules

BD+C

Achieving Safer School Design with Secure Entry Vestibules 1 kcichowicz Mon, 04/22/2024 - 10:47 Designers can plan secure entry vestibules with security-rated glazing to enhance the effectiveness of their safer school designs. What are secure entry vestibules and how do they support safer school design?

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School construction: Enhancing security through design

The Korte Company

Our success as a security-focused school construction company is underscored by our experience delivering 500 projects for our country’s Department of Defense. Exterior elements of secure school construction. Architects must design for the security of the school without making it look like a prison. Minimal, but not barren.

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Building Perimeters are Only One Layer in Safe School Design

BD+C

Requiring bullet- or forced-entry-resistant materials in exterior doors and windows aligns with the Partner Alliance for Safer School (PASS) K-12 guidelines for the Building Perimeter Layer of a school security plan. One answer is a multilayer approach to school security.

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Drones take site assessments to new heights

BD+C

Eric Vallejo Engineers Drone Software 360 Camera Drones Lighting Security/Fire Protection New technologies for visualization and reality capture are expanding what the AEC industry can do when assessing a site—an often-arduous task that doesn’t always capture the big picture or the small details.

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Using Locking Hardware to Support Code-Compliant Safer School Design

BD+C

All these pieces need to work together properly to enhance school safety and security. As such, safer school design brings together building, construction and security communities. In addition, current model codes require locked rooms be accessible from the outside with a valid key or credentials to support first responders.

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New Developments for 179D Energy Efficiency Tax Incentive

Viewpoint Construction Technology

Guest post by Kevin Sullivan of BRAYN Consulting LLC. How to Secure Your Deduction. In order to secure this incentive, an allocation letter needs to be obtained from each government building owner. per square foot. The timing of this extension could not be better for contractors. A Real-World Example. per square foot deduction.

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