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Disability and architecture: ADA and universal design at college campuses

BD+C

Dark corridors with uniform flooring create navigation difficulties for students with visual impairments. New hearing or visual impairment technologies, for instance, might prompt a college to upgrade its systems. Universal design also considers those with visual and hearing impairments.

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Integrating lighting into specialty ceilings

Construction Specifier

The purpose of lighting—both natural and artificial—in the built space has always been to elevate the architectural environment, providing a level of functionality and visual comfort to space occupants, as well as enhancing unique and/or important attributes of the architectural design itself. Background.

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Seattle’s urban transformation: Innovative facade design

Construction Specifier

The fins may be oriented either left or right on each unitized panel, which themselves can have different fin profiles and colors in the vision and spandrel zones, doubling the number of potential variants. In addition to dynamic fin depths and locations, further visual movement is gained by a deliberate use of color on the fins.

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Custom Home: A Modern Design of Light and Magic

Pro Builder

Built on the site of the client’s boyhood home, the design borrows from that past while establishing a modern future for the client and his family, while also applying lessons in creative ways to manage restrictive municipal zoning requirements and daylight access rules, with sometimes surprising results.

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All About Pony Wall | What Is a Pony Wall | Uses of Pony Wall | Pros and Cons of Pony Wall

CivilJungle

The pony walls can be looked at in each place of the residence, from the main gate to the washroom to the living room, separating prominent areas into shorter ones and caring clear, fresh air and a wall commonly available as save siding at the upper of the stairway. The indoor pony-kind walls will paint as drywall. Partition Entryway.

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Q&A On Interpretations of Fall Protection for Steel Erection

Safety Services Company

Can employees install a curtain wall in a Controlled Decking Zone (CDZ)? Only employees who are connectors – because they are installing metal decking – are allowed in a Controlled Decking Zone (CDZ) and are exempt from the general steel erection fall protection threshold of 15 ft. high in favor of the connector threshold of 30 ft.

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Q&A On Interpretations of Fall Protection for Steel Erection

Safety Services Company

Can employees install a curtain wall in a Controlled Decking Zone (CDZ)? Only employees who are connectors – because they are installing metal decking – are allowed in a Controlled Decking Zone (CDZ) and are exempt from the general steel erection fall protection threshold of 15 ft. high in favor of the connector threshold of 30 ft.

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