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KAI Transforms Historic Vashon Community Center at Harris-Stowe State University into Wolff Jazz Institute & National Black Radio Hall of Fame

Civil + Structural Engineer

Louis in 1999, a 2009 grant from the National Park Service, aimed at preserving significant historic structures on historically Black college and university campuses, along with state funds, made the Vashon Center’s renovation possible, with construction starting in December 2021 and completing in early 2023.

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Cintec in North America Announces their Cintec Anchoring System was used in helping Repair the Helmsley Building 230 Park Avenue, NYC

Civil + Structural Engineer

The Problem : By 2009, the building had begun to show its age. At the top of the building some of the twenty-six east and south facing Terra-Cotta columns [ with the base starting at the 26th floor and extending past the 34th floor] had begun to show cracking and in some areas had began to shed large pieces of stone.

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How to Build Healthy Homes That Protect Homebuyers From Radon

The Pro Builder

How to Build Healthy Homes That Protect Homebuyers From Radon ibush Mon, 07/03/2023 - 17:25 Consider a relatively simple and inexpensive passive mitigation system to vent radon—a radioactive, odorless, invisible gas—and deliver a truly healthy home Andrew Shipp A silent poison, a fatal gas, an invisible killer. homes has high radon levels.

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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. Pairing an upgraded boiler with upgrading the heating systems and installing intelligent controls/thermostatic radiator valves can help save on energy and improve the rating.

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Stadiums Can Keep Emergency Communications Out of the “Dead Zone”

CCR Magazine

Signal failure in any critical area will require installing an Emergency Responder Communication Enhancement Systems (ERCES),” says Deron Bone, president of RF DAS Systems, Inc., a national provider of emergency responder radio coverage systems for more than 30 years. Fire, police and EMS frequencies vary across the country.

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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

Option 3 includes “construction of the lock floor, installation of the mechanical and electrical systems, completion of the filling and emptying system, placing soil in between the New Lock and old Davis Lock, and commissioning of the lock chamber,” according to Inland Navigation Design Center and New Lock at the Soo technical lead Darin White.

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Credible Construction Estimate Core Elements

Job Order Contracting

GAO, 2009 The associated processes for developing a credible construction cost estimate are equally well documented. It incorporates other systems in use as the basis of many of its tables, including MasterFormat for work results and UniFormat for elements.