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Zweig Group’s 2024 Rising Stars In the AEC Industry

Civil + Structural Engineer

By recognizing the young professionals already making a profound impact on the AEC industry, we are able to get a full view of its future. This impact also extends to work done in their communities as well as leadership and mentorship within their firms. For me, Rising Stars is the perfect way to start the awards season.

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Are Green Building Rating Systems Really Sustainable?

Natural Building

The following are her thoughts about green buildings and the rating systems that score them. Despite greater efficiencies and more greenery, buildings increasingly consume energy and resources, forget the poor, and cannibalize the natural life-support system. It is no longer enough to “do no harm”. .

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Why Projects Fail

Job Order Contracting

Instead, most of the performance variations are caused by the system, of which those people are but a part. People can’t perform better than the system allows W. Edwards Deming – T he System of Profound Knowledge. Instead, most of the performance variations are caused by the system, of which those people are but a part.

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Exterior cavity fireblocking: Exceeding fire performance

Construction Specifier

These applications range from fireproofing of structural steel, through-penetration firestopping of mechanical and electrical service, perimeter edge sealing of fire doors, to joint and gap sealing to limit fire spread. Until 2008, NYC created and maintained its own, independent, building code.

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Green Home Building and Sustainable Architecture: California's.

Natural Building

July 22, 2008. For renewable energy, the codes says, "Use on-site renewable energy sources such as solar, wind, geothermal, low-impact hydro, biomass and bio-gas for at least 1% of the electric power." Select materials assemblies based on life cycle assessment of their embodied energy and/or green house gas emission potentials.

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Critical Issues and BIM – NIBS buildingSMART alliance conference – January 7-11, 2013

Building Information Management

Its impact is already being felt in countries around the globe. The buildingSMART alliance TM Conference will help you understand how BIM can better integrate the design, construction, fabrication and operation processes, and provide you with the latest metrics available to assess industry progress. Thursday: Information Exchanges.

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Sustainable construction products and technologies

GCP Applied Technologies

In addition, new IoT technologies like in-transit concrete management systems can reduce fuel consumption for ready-mix fleets and minimize rejected loads. VERIFI® in-transit concrete management system can make ready-mix plants more sustainable. . The VERIFI® system can help ready-mix plants earn sustainability certification.