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MN Officials Share Energy Efficiency & PFAS Insights at FGIA

CCR Magazine

Commercial Energy Codes in Minnesota In his session entitled “What Do We Need to Know When It Comes to New Commercial Energy Codes in Minnesota? Commercial Energy Codes in Minnesota In his session entitled “What Do We Need to Know When It Comes to New Commercial Energy Codes in Minnesota?,”

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Two Week Natural Building Intensive

Natural Building

Learn skills, techniques, and design theory to create your own beautiful, durable, energy-efficient home from local and site-harvested materials. Most of each day will be spent practicing a wide range of hands-on natural building systems, some ancient and time-tested, others experimental. Camping is also available on site.

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Revit OpEd: Egress Path Options

Revit OpEd

In 2006 I demonstrated (at Autodesk University) the then new line based family type by explaining how we could use it to document egress path requirements also known as exiting plans. The new adaptive point approach requires building a family that provides however many segments are required in advance. Builds and Updates.

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What Are Planted  Column, Floating Column, Hanging Column, and Stub Column

CivilJungle

The use of floating columns (Planted Column, Hanging Column, and Stub Column) is intended for an architectural view, site conditions and as much as possible area on a plot within, permissible bye-laws. Earthquake is a natural phenomenon in which disasters are mainly caused by damage to the building or the loss of other man-made structures.

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Revit OpEd: Wishlist - Families and Hide at Scales Coarser Than

Revit OpEd

It makes it easier to keep certain sections (details/wall sections) and elevations (interior) off of overall floor plan views for example. Related to this is the notion that there are representations that wed like to control for floor plan orientation and offer a different appear for the reflected ceiling plan (RCP) version.

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Are Green Building Rating Systems Really Sustainable?

Natural Building

Professor Janis Birkeland is an honorary professor at the University of Melbourne who has taught sustainable planning and architecture at several universities. The following are her thoughts about green buildings and the rating systems that score them. It is no longer enough to “do no harm”. .

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Revit OpEd: Room Separation Lines - Agida for MEP?

Revit OpEd

Further, we are unable to accurately or efficiently create a gbXML file for use in Green Building Studio, HAP, Trace, etc. Area plans could help document such things but then floor plans would be "ignorant" of what these kinds of "areas" are, no tagging possible, just "dumb text". Builds and Updates. Site Information.