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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. By Antonie Habellion, P.Eng.,

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Code Compliance & Beyond: Upping Baseline Building Energy Performance

Stok

Coverage of fires blazing in unprecedented proportions in the Amazon forests of Brazil has ignited a discussion around the importance of government policies to drive widescale climate change mitigation. This directly translates to building energy codes. And, the result of this baseline?

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Michael G. Smith Writes about the Value of Cob

Natural Building

They look like a pretty diverse bunch, but they all have at least two things in common: They are here to learn to build their own environmentally friendly homes, and all of them are splattered with mud from head to toe. I attended my first natural building workshop in Oregon in 1993.

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Connecticut Has A New – And – Nearly $1 Billion Dollar- revitalization Mixed Use Construction Project On The Connecticut River. The Well Known Development Group Sets The Tentative Schedule For The Planning, Design, & Development As The Largest new Mixed Use Project In Nearly 50 Years Takes Shape

Bylt News

In addition, the town of East Hartford would had to approve a $45 million & tax incremental financing; agreement to build a 1,000-space parking garage that would be hidden behind a structure to buffer it from the river. Port Eastside LLC paid $4 million for a low-rise office building on 7.3 Federal Nexus: 42 U.S.C.