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Achieving Safer School Design with Secure Entry Vestibules

BD+C

The intent was to create a set of best practices to help schools and architects better plan for emergency events. A vestibule’s ability to provide such defense is twofold. This approach is crucial because each layer of defense may be called on at different times and in variable order.

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First Street Foundation Helps Homeowners Calculate Wildfire Threat Score

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Wildfire season is off to a destructive start in hotspots like New Mexico and California, but the risk is becoming more widespread as climate change lays a path for more extreme weather events across the globe. The company models the immediate risk to Americans’ homes and then adjusts for projected climate change. Environmental.

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Building Perimeters are Only One Layer in Safe School Design

BD+C

Using such glazing can complement a hardened building envelope by providing another layer of defense. Fire alarms can be triggered (deliberately or inadvertently) during active shooter events. However, it is important to note that some municipalities, Chicago for instance, require all components of a corridor to be fire-rated.

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A Natural Building Network

Natural Building

The Natural Building Network provided a place where people could gather with others to share ideas, announce events and opportunities, and find skilled help and accurate and up-to-date information. There are some great video instruction series called Warrior Collective on Youtube, that would make a great model for Natural Building.

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Building Teams First – Buildings Next

Constructonomics

This is probably because everyone feels that there are so many more important things to do on a construction project than have some team building event when everyone could be spending their time thinking of ways to suck more money out of their opponent. This project I recently finished was no different.

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FEMA Recommends I-Codes For National Flood Insurance Program

Buisness Facilities Contributed Content

A Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) flood plain management report says current model building codes, such as the International Codes (I-Codes), have flood provisions that are consistent with NFIP requirements for buildings and structures. Posted by Heidi Schwartz.

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What Is a Change Order?

Autodesk Construction Cloud

Building information modeling (BIM) technology is a model-based process that provides insight to architects, engineers, and designers as they plan the construction of buildings and infrastructure. Better Designs and Visualization. BIM helps in the design phase by providing more accurate visualizations before the building phase begins.