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Specifying high-performance curtain wall in educational facilities

Construction Specifier

Today’s educational campuses do more than provide weather-tight enclosures for instruction and study. They must be attractive to recruit students, faculty, and donors, and offer both generalized, multipurpose and specialized, purpose-built facilities. Photos © Charles LeRette Photography. Photo courtesy Tubelite Inc.

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Testing and Specifications: aluminum-framed fenestration assemblies

Construction Specifier

Parents, school officials, teachers, staff, and facility managers are increasingly asking architects and specification professionals whether their buildings are taking all the precautions available to mitigate shooting incidents. NSSPA 2 analyzed data from 1985 to 2019 data, using CHDS and Education Week’s School Shooting Tracker.

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Kinetic Architecture: New book explores innovations in active façades

BD+C

Arup has announced that Russell Fortmeyer, LEED AP, BD+C, an associate in Arup''s Los Angeles office, has co-authored a book on kinetic architecture with industry expert Charles Linn, FAIA, an architect who has specialized in architectural journalism for more than 25 years. The foreword is written by well-known German architect Christoph Ingenhoven.

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Lamination: The Future of Architectural Glass

Safti First

The system is listed under the wall standards because it functions as a wall – only it is a “transparent wall” – capable of stopping fire, radiant heat, and smoke. What followed was years of investing in testing, product development, manufacturing, education and promotion. market was unaware of it.