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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. Serving as a rainscreen system, these energy efficient panels also provide an air gap that allows water drainage and evaporation of moisture that can accumulate behind the cladding panel.

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Brent Spence Bridge Corridor Project team recommends innovations to reconnect communities and improve safety

Civil + Structural Engineer

From our earlier commitments to separate stormwater systems and pilot Kentucky’s first transparent noise screens, these latest innovations are further proof we’re listening to input and refining the project to make it even better,” said Secretary Gray. “In

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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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Entekra Exit: The Off-Site Construction Company Will Shut Down by June 30

The Pro Builder

The company debuted its first home in August 2017, and its prefabricated panelized construction systems promised to be a game-changer for the residential construction industry. using off-site methods before selling his company, Century Homes —Europe’s largest off-site building manufacturing company—to Kingspan Group in 2005.

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TCC’s judgment in Martlet v Mulalley, a cladding fire safety dispute

Practical Law Construction

The defendant (Mulalley) was a design and build contractor who was engaged in 2005 to install external wall insulation on the Towers in the form of rendered cladding. In due course, it decided to completely remove the cladding and replace it with a similar system using non-combustible stone wool insulation instead of the EPS panels.

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What Is Shoring In Construction | Type of Shoring

CivilJungle

These support walls laterally. Shoring can be utilized when walls bulge out when walls crack due to unequal settlement of foundation and repairs must be carried out to the cracked wall, when an adjacent structure needs pulling down when openings must be newly enlarged or made into a wall. Type of Shoring.

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Cladding and fire safety – more reaction to Martlet v Mulalley

Practical Law Construction

However, in summary, following the Grenfell tragedy, the building owner (Martlet) carried out a fire safety review of its high-rise residential towers, discovering that the cladding system installed by the design and build contractor (Mulalley) between 2005 and 2008 included combustible expanded polystyrene (EPS) insulation boards.