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Designing for recovery: The role of flooring in healthcare facilities

Construction Specifier

1 Many recent studies combined with the growing adoption of evidence-based design principles have illuminated the importance of healthcare facility design on the overall patient experience and the relationship it has with healing and wellness. each year, with an average stay of nearly five days.

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Exterior cavity fireblocking: Exceeding fire performance

Construction Specifier

and Steven Gaynor, MBA Photo courtesy Tenmat New York City recently became the first jurisdiction in the country to reject and rewrite major sections of the International Building Code’s ( IBC ’s) language around fire protection in exterior facades. For decades, buildings have relied on intumescent materials for fire control.

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Anvil Agrinomics and the change cannabis game

CCR Magazine

Jim Megerson believes every building should be designed, built and operated sustainably. That's why at Anvil Agrinomics LLC (AnvilAg), the national mechanical, electrical and plumbing (MEP) engineering design firm he founded uses innovation and creativity to develop sustainable solutions for its clients.

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Achieving compliance with ANSI/ESD S20.20

Construction Specifier

As electronics continue to infiltrate the workplace, the applications for electrostatic discharge (ESD) control flooring are expanding. For example, the automated guided vehicles and robots being deployed in e-commerce warehouses can generate large amounts of static electricity when used on standard flooring. ANSI/ESD S20.20

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Trending Construction Disputes: Best Practices for Mitigation

CCR Magazine

New Report Shows Construction Workforce Shortage Will Top Half a Million in 2023 – Condustrial When the construction industry rebounded with a vengeance, especially from 2014/2015 and beyond Total Construction Spending: Total Construction in the United States (TTLCONS) | FRED | St. design/build) and pricing methodology (lump sum v.

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What’s Really Needed to Make BIM Work.

Building Information Management

Building Information Management (that’s right forget the “modeling” distraction), BIM, is the life-cycle management of the built environment supported by digital technology. in order to define the scope, schedule, cost/budget (initial and life-cycle) budget, performance, value of a project or potential project.

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FEDERAL REAL PROPERTY: Major Management Issues

Building Information Management

GAO-14-87: Published: Jan 6, 2014. Publicly Released: Feb 5, 2014. Agencies we reviewed defined structures differently leading to inconsistencies in what assets are included in the FRPP, including counting some building-like facilities as structures. Poor stakeholder real property decision making. What GAO Found.