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Insulation’s crucial role in creating habitable basements

Construction Specifier

1 According to their classification system, Class A basements provide a below-grade living space comparable to the living space of the floors above. There may also be health and safety requirements, as well as HVAC requirements, which go beyond the scope of the 2005 report by Swinton and Kesik.

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Open information exchange of Heating, Ventilating and Cooling systems (HVAC) – A Important Standard? – HVAC information exchange – HVACie

Building Information Management

Open information exchange of Heating, Ventilating and Cooling systems (HVACie), released by the Engineer Research and Development Center for public review. HVACie extends the existing Industry Foundation Class Coordination View including equipment and system information streamlining construction shop drawing and fabrication.

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Open information exchange of Heating, Ventilating and Cooling systems (HVAC) – A Important Standard? – HVAC information exchange – HVACie

Building Information Management

Open information exchange of Heating, Ventilating and Cooling systems (HVACie), released by the Engineer Research and Development Center for public review. HVACie extends the existing Industry Foundation Class Coordination View including equipment and system information streamlining construction shop drawing and fabrication.

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Reopening The Glass House with National Historic Trust

CCR Magazine

The Brick House served as both a guest house and a retreat for Johnson and his partner David Whitney until their deaths in 2005. The interior had experienced deterioration of plaster, mold growth, and rusting mechanical systems. The walls are covered in Fortuny’s Piumette pink, aquamarine, and gold patterned cotton fabric.

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Revit OpEd: Room Separation Lines - Agida for MEP?

Revit OpEd

The essence of my response via email: HVAC Zones are meant to combine spaces into larger more coherent collections for engineering purposes. From the HVAC engineers perspective irrelevant but not from the clients or the architect trying to satisfy them. They might end up asking Autodesk to make more elements room defining? at 10:32 PM.

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Skilled labor shortage amplifies need to boost vocational education

The Korte Company

We can see the writing on every wall we put up: The underlying driver of today’s skilled labor shortage has not been adequately addressed, so the gap between available workers and construction demand is sure to widen. And yet, school systems still devalue vocational education as a matter of policy.

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Revit OpEd: View Discipline

Revit OpEd

When MEP (Systems as it was called then) appeared a year later they extended the concept to Mechanical and Electrical (plumbing lumped in with Mechanical till release 2013). A HVAC plan is different because most engineers want to see the highest duct masking lower ducts. ► 2005. (73). ► December 2005. (7).