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Comfort Systems Road Map: A Plug-and-Play Residential Duct System

Pro Builder

Comfort Systems Road Map: A Plug-and-Play Residential Duct System. Today, PEX is the predominant plumbing system in new residential construction. . Lab testing and modeling confirmed that most homes up to 4,200 square feet in climate zones 3–5 could be adequately conditioned with 3-inch-diameter smooth ductwork. Eric Werling.

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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. A Warmer Spin on Modern Architecture.

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Expanding the exterior footprint

Construction Specifier

In fact, officials of New York City are beginning to re-examine its zoning to ensure green spaces and parks are accessible and equitably distributed throughout the urban landscape. It also creates a new building zone called the ‘mid-doors,’ a term coined recently by Transsolar’s Erik Olsen, in his series “What is Indoors?”

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Curt Horstmann won’t sit still

The Korte Company

He also ran the residential construction company where Curt’s brother-in-law and brothers, including Dale and Gary Horstmann , worked. Back then, he was still working in residential construction, building nicer and nicer homes. Me and a good friend, we made a trip over to see the submarine and the actual war zone.

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COVER STORY: 2013 Business Facilities Rankings Report – Metro And Global Rankings

Buisness Facilities Contributed Content

Inspired by New Urbanism design principles, the complex will include an office building that will house the new IBM Services Center, as well as a separate, 11-story residential building with 95 river-view apartments and nine separate town homes. The BRAF-affiliated Wilbur Marvin Foundation (WMF) will own the office building.

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Revit Beginners: Applications

Revit Beginners

Innovaya also does visualization, communication, quantity takeoff, construction simulating, and so on. We design traditional, high-end residential work. Revit Zone. Cost will do cost estimating. Interfaces with Primavera. If you go to the Revit API section on AUGI there is a Find and Replace application already compiled.

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Revit Beginners: Some thoughts on Revit

Revit Beginners

Being more visual, this is probably the perfect programming enviroment for architects. We design traditional, high-end residential work. Revit Zone. The family editor is in essence a "graphical" programming environment. Subscribe To. David Duarte. Im a Revit Beginner with an architectural office in Santa Barbara. Revit OpEd.

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