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Revit OpEd: Room Separation Lines - Agida for MEP?

Revit OpEd

The essence of my response via email: HVAC Zones are meant to combine spaces into larger more coherent collections for engineering purposes. From the HVAC engineers perspective irrelevant but not from the clients or the architect trying to satisfy them. ► 2009. ► December 2009. (16). ► November 2009. (23).

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Revit OpEd: How Many Worksets Do I Need?

Revit OpEd

Floors Retail. Floors Condos. Floors Rental. Floors Residential. Floors Examination Rooms. Floors Laboratories. I may not want a water heater visible in my HVAC floor plan and the plumbing views probably dont want to see a condensing unit in them. Wall Floor Interaction and Linked Models.

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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). A HVAC plan is different because most engineers want to see the highest duct masking lower ducts. The concept of View Discipline appeared with Revit Structure.

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Exterior cavity fireblocking: Exceeding fire performance

Construction Specifier

“On a parallel path, I expect that the NFPA Fire Test Committee, which is responsible for maintaining and updating NFPA 285, will start to look at what modifications to the standard test set-up and conduct can be incorporated to address the evaluation of exterior wall assemblies containing fireblocking systems and technologies.

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Reopening The Glass House with National Historic Trust

CCR Magazine

The interior had experienced deterioration of plaster, mold growth, and rusting mechanical systems. The floor features a new champagne-colored carpet donated by Edward Fields Carpet Makers, who supplied the original flooring to Mr. Johnson. Fabric Panels: Fabricated and donated by Fortuny, Inc. General Contractor: Hobbs, Inc.

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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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Public Law 111-308 – Federal Buildings Personnel Training Act – FBPTA – CORE COMPETENCIES

Building Information Management

Reviewers admired the system’s three levels of increasing knowledge, skills and abilities as a “concept”, but did not believe it was implementable government-­?wide. Sys tem Des ign: We developed a system that focused on the highest impact core competencies common to every agency -­? Oppor tunity: The web-­?tool