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Exterior cavity fireblocking: Exceeding fire performance

Construction Specifier

Aiming to enhance the fire safety standards in exterior walls, fireblocking is now mandatory behind ventilated cladding , with few exceptions. Simultaneously, it enables the design of exterior walls which can meet the other stringent performance requirements imposed on today’s buildings. By Antonie Habellion, P.Eng., from the 2000 IBC.

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Read About the Latest News on Construction Cost Stabilize, Submarine Construction Facility in Mobile, and US Army Engineers

Construction Daily News

According to the data, brick, structural clay tile, construction machinery, and switchgear costs did not change from the previous month. In an email to Construction Dive, Wilkins said diesel fuel, concrete pipe, steel mill goods, copper, and fabricated structural metal prices changed most last year. The project is worth $1.3

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Keep Emergency Communication Out of the “Dead Zone”

CCR Magazine

Additionally, building features designed to create more sustainable facilities such as low-E glass windows can attenuate the signal from public safety radio systems. As a result, most fire codes now mandate the installation of Emergency Responder Communication Enhancement Systems ( ERCES ) for both new and existing commercial buildings.

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High-performance coating systems

Construction Specifier

Its aluminum-clad exterior was refinished with a polyvinylidene fluoride (PVDF) based coating system, restoring the building’s façade to a just-like-new condition designed to last for over 20 years. Thin, shallow, reverse mullion profiles made the curtain wall appear as one continuous surface. Preserving modern history.

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Revit OpEd: Reference Planes and Wall Closure

Revit OpEd

Reference Planes and Wall Closure. Control Wall’s Material Return. Layers) for the host wall in a project. These adjustments change the 3D model, not just the 2D plan-view. You can set two Reference Planes to “Wall Closure” in a family. Comments: Comments are moderated to manage spamming.

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Revit OpEd: Layer Function Setting

Revit OpEd

System families have a Function setting. Thats true for Walls, Floor, Roofs and Ceilings. If changed I suspect people would have less trouble deciding which function is appropriate. If changed I suspect people would have less trouble deciding which function is appropriate. Wall Floor Interaction and Linked Models.

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Revit OpEd: The Missing Door

Revit OpEd

That post is about Openings and this one is about curtain wall panel doors. When people first make a curtain wall that is supposed to get a door they quite naturally assume the door tool is the right place to start. Curtain walls are special and they are made up of curtain grids, panels and mullions. We dont use the Door tool.