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Standards for Building Economics

Building Information Management

on Building Economics. ACTIVE standards under the jurisdiction of E06.81 . E833-14 Standard Terminology of Building Economics. E917-15 Standard Practice for Measuring Life-Cycle Costs of Buildings and Building Systems. E2166-12 Standard Practice for Organizing and Managing Building Data.

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Living the Dream: PAE Engineers’ HQ Embodies an Aspirational Vision

Civil + Structural Engineer

PAE Engineers enjoys a unique symbol of its brand identity – the company’s Portland headquarters office, which is the world’s first developer-driven Living Building. PAE’s Living Building Challenge The PAE Living Building is a five-story, 58,000-square-foot mixed-use building located in a historic neighborhood in Portland.

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Coating for sustainability

Construction Specifier

When the project team decided to go green during construction, high-performance coatings might not be the first thing on their minds, but maybe they should be. Every high-performance coating system is designed to guard surfaces against corrosion and ultraviolet (UV) light degradation, ultimately extending the life cycle of a building.

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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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Resilient Flooring: The sustainable specification

Construction Specifier

When specifying flooring, one should consider both sustainability and performance. These factors not only contribute to the sustainability of the flooring, but how it performs. From a performance standpoint, even a sustainably made floor must be installed correctly to be truly sustainable.

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Energy-saving strategies: Ceiling panels with phase change material (PCM)

Construction Specifier

For example, a ceiling composed of a mineral fiber panel that uses PCM technology can reduce energy costs and decrease consumption by up to 15 percent (according to measured cooling energy savings in lab tests). Concrete, brick, and stone have high thermal mass, absorbing and releasing substantial amounts of heat.

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Code Compliance & Beyond: Upping Baseline Building Energy Performance

Stok

Due to their embodied carbon and operational carbon footprints, buildings play a significant role in these efforts, so understanding the impact of legislation on buildings is critical. This directly translates to building energy codes. For example, LEED v4 refers to ASHRAE standard 90.1-2010 How to approach compliance.