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High-performance roofing strategies

Construction Specifier

A high-performance roof system is durable, resilient, and allows a building to be occupied after a disaster event and continues performing during a loss of power. Designing beyond code minimums could help a roof stay intact with minimal damage during a storm. A green roof could be used to mitigate the urban heat island effect.

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Green Home Building and Sustainable Architecture: An Alternative.

Natural Building

September 16, 2009. One other thing she would do differently is to shed the roof towards the south instead of the north, so that the snow wouldn’t pile up so much, but would melt off instead. The solar water heating panels on the roof of the studio have a drain-back arrangement to avoid freezing problems. Green School Primer.

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Reopening The Glass House with National Historic Trust

CCR Magazine

Clad in iron spot brick laid in a Flemish bond pattern, the structures are linked by a grassy court, and offer a lesson in contrasts. Although both structures are 56-feet long, the 860-square-foot rectangular Brick House is only half as deep as The Glass House.

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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