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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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Open information exchange of Heating, Ventilating and Cooling systems (HVAC) – A Important Standard? – HVAC information exchange – HVACie

Building Information Management

Open information exchange of Heating, Ventilating and Cooling systems (HVACie), released by the Engineer Research and Development Center for public review. HVACie extends the existing Industry Foundation Class Coordination View including equipment and system information streamlining construction shop drawing and fabrication.

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Open information exchange of Heating, Ventilating and Cooling systems (HVAC) – A Important Standard? – HVAC information exchange – HVACie

Building Information Management

Open information exchange of Heating, Ventilating and Cooling systems (HVACie), released by the Engineer Research and Development Center for public review. HVACie extends the existing Industry Foundation Class Coordination View including equipment and system information streamlining construction shop drawing and fabrication.

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Why Commercial Facility Maintenance Is Your Best Insurance Policy

HardHatChat

Our clients are not in the business of commercial facility management. If a client has an HVAC issue, they don’t need to research various vendors. This focuses on prolonging the life of building systems. It’s good to have regular check-ups on the performance of such vital systems as HVAC units, plumbing, and fire protection.

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Revit OpEd: Room Separation Lines - Agida for MEP?

Revit OpEd

Wednesday, June 13, 2012. They were however using them for the room finish schedules. The essence of my response via email: HVAC Zones are meant to combine spaces into larger more coherent collections for engineering purposes. When we unload a workset the walls are still there and that means so are Room Separation lines.

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Industry Focus: Data Centers – To Serve And Protect

Business Facilities

Data centers are facilities that house an organization’s IT operations and equipment, and where it stores, manages and disseminates its data. This includes content distribution, network architecture, database management and environmental control. By Dominique Cantelme. From the May/June 2014 issue.

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Revit OpEd: How Many Worksets Do I Need?

Revit OpEd

Wednesday, April 18, 2012. FFE NIC (by owner that may be easier to manage alone). There is a little known technique for managing these using worksets when dealing with linked files and their levels and grids. If you reach for a workset to manage element visibilty you owe it to yourself to consider a deeper look at Filters.