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Exterior cavity fireblocking: Exceeding fire performance

Construction Specifier

and Steven Gaynor, MBA Photo courtesy Tenmat New York City recently became the first jurisdiction in the country to reject and rewrite major sections of the International Building Code’s ( IBC ’s) language around fire protection in exterior facades. For decades, buildings have relied on intumescent materials for fire control.

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Berkeley Place

UK Construction Blog

Berkeley Place was founded by Nick Cryer in Summer 2009, initially targeting independent schools and prestigious residential development opportunities. Some of the ways we are doing this: Upgrading boiler & controls Installing more efficient boilers. Electric underfloor heating simple to fit.

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Rammed Earth Hospital in Nepal

Natural Building

‘This is an example of when architecture provides more than a building. The building is rooted in its site through its use of onsite materials and has impeccable zero carbon design credentials.’. The building is rooted in its site through its use of onsite materials and has impeccable zero carbon design credentials.’.

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Earthships in Canada

Natural Building

A lack of utility bills for their home, coupled with a lack of ongoing maintenance costs, allowed the Cooks to build a home for $70,000, and minimize monthly expenditures in the process. Convection-based air circulation is channeled through a centralized vertical cooling chimney, also adding a measure of temperature control.

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Revit OpEd: Chameleon for Grasshopper and Revit

Revit OpEd

It offers a Curtain Grid Manager that controls both panels and grids now, offers a preview of the system as well as helping to distinguish between vertical and horizontal orientations. Builds and Updates. Electrical Panel Load Calculations. Reference Planes and Wall Closure. ► 2009. ► May 2009.

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Top 10 Water Tank Brands in India

CivilJungle

Sintex Classic Double Wall (DW) Water Tank 1000 Ltrs. ?7900.00. Sintex Classic Double Wall (DW) Water Tank 2000 Ltrs. ?15400.00. Sintex Classic Double Wall (DW) Water Tank 5000 Ltrs. ?38400.00. Sintex Classic Double Wall (DW) Water Tank 2000 Ltrs. ?15400.00. Electrical and Smc Products. Sintex Water Tank.

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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). There is no real difference between Mechanical and Electrical disciplines graphically, based solely on the View Discipline parameter changing.