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Western Specialty Contractors Updates St. Louis Corporate Headquarters with Custom Sheet Metal Rainscreen

Civil + Structural Engineer

A metal light box sign featuring the company’s name had hung over its doors since 2005. ACM/MCM is a lightweight composite material consisting of two aluminum cover sheets and a fire-rated core. Western’s crews replaced all damaged wood and fabricated and installed new cornice conductor heads and downspouts around the building.

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NFPA 285 engineering judgments

Construction Specifier

Structure fires have dropped significantly over the past 40 years, and one major contributor to this decline in fires and fire deaths has been the development of comprehensive fire safety measures. It is these multiple layers of fire safety, not a single requirement, which result in safe construction.

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Facilities Maintenance Checklist and Procedures

Job Order Contracting

This standard is not intended to address all fall protection related equipment. All fall protection equipment is required by OSHA to be checked prior to each use. Consult the Material Safety Data Sheets (MSDS) for hazardous ingredients and proper personal protective equipment (PPE). Special Instructions: 1. Lubricants.

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Behind the Build: Interview with Jacob Freitas, Senior Project Manager, Level 10 Construction

Autodesk Construction Cloud

I started back at Cal Poly in the summer of 2005 studying city-regional planning. A lot of what I focused on during those three years were energy-related projects such as efficiency upgrades, solar installation and fuel cells. For example, rough openings in walls, bottom track locations, drops for lights, etc.,

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Public Law 111-308 – Federal Buildings Personnel Training Act – FBPTA – CORE COMPETENCIES

Building Information Management

Leg islative Intent: Taxpaye r investment in Federal facilities must be protected and leveraged through the cost savings involved in maximizing building performance. Reviewers admired the system’s three levels of increasing knowledge, skills and abilities as a “concept”, but did not believe it was implementable government-­?wide.