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Make It Resilient 2024 Student Contest Encourages New Ways to Build for Extreme Environments

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In traveling to Phoenix-based construction technology firm Nox Innovations, he explores firsthand how builders are constructing for extreme environments here and gleaning lessons about resilience that could be extended beyond planet Earth. Make It Resilient 2024 is now open, and the deadline to submit is June 24, 2024.

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The next destination: Passive design airports

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One example is Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport in Arizona, where our team led the Terminal 2 demolition project. Vigilant environmental assessments and careful sun studies to reduce solar heat gain and loss informed the design. Travelers like to watch aircraft take off and land while waiting for their own flight.

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Construction Software Partly Cloud(y)

Carol Hagen

Travel to a more rural area and there are still few choices with the only “high” speed option is satellite. Now I live in the Phoenix metro area so for me I’m good with bandwidth. With cloud access can’t someone steal my password and access my information? I appreciate it!

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Guide to Top 2023-24 Construction Conferences & Events

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Get more details SMACNA Annual Convention 2023 (Phoenix, Arizona) October 15-18, 2023 The trade show at the SMACNA (Sheet Metal, Air Conditioning National Association) Annual Convention will take place at the JW Marriott Phoenix Desert Ridge in 2023. This is one of two key gatherings offered by CMAA each year.

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Demystifying fire-retardant treated wood specifications

Construction Specifier

The codes require FRTW to be tested for an additional 20-minute period, meaning the FRTW is challenged by fire for a total of 30 minutes: • During the first 10 minutes of the extended test, the distance of flame travel and rate at which the flame front advances are used to calculate the flame spread index (FSI). Type I: 111,484-m2 (1.2

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Grand Canyon hikes to the bottom: the natural wonder without the crowds

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“Summer in Arizona, you said,” whines my travel companion. Jamie Lafferty travelled as a guest of Visit Arizona. American Airlines flies daily to Phoenix from Sydney and Melbourne via Los Angeles. The snow soon swaps to hail the size of peas, which rattles on our hoods like an intolerable upstairs neighbour.

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Advanced Manufacturing: Manufacturing Gets Smarter, Faster

Business Facilities

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