Just as architects and designers rely on sketches and 3-D renderings to visualize an unbuilt project’s aesthetics, a new auralization experience from CertainTeed can help specifiers design on an auditory level. The CertainTeed Listening Lounge, a virtual demonstration sound modeling tool located at the company’s new headquarters in Malvern, Pennsylvania, lets the specifier hear how ceiling design, materials and product specifications can affect the acoustics of a space.
The Gypsum Association (GA), which represents the North American manufacturers of gypsum wallboard, has released an industry-wide environmental product declaration (EPD) for glass mat gypsum panels. The EPD provides vital environmental performance information addressing energy consumption, water consumption, global warming, waste, air emissions and other metrics related to production.
The revitalized Acrovyn Wall Panel system by Construction Specialties provides architects, designers and facility managers with the opportunity to reset their standards with extensive new design options that install in half the time previously required.
The Children’s Hospital of San Antonio renovation project presented layout space restrictions, trade overlap, tight schedule requirements, and close proximity to occupied spaces. MK Marlow Company LLC, the framing and gypsum contractor, depended on Radius Track Corp. from the beginning by inviting the framing design expert to bid coordination meetings which were held via web-based video conference.
In 2006, Jason Meier was constructing a house in Conover, N.C. for a very special client: his family. To provide a safe, secure and energy-efficient home he chose Superior Walls precast concrete Xi panels for the structure of his house.
Sarah Richardson, designer, TV host and producer, author, entrepreneur, and product designer is teaming up with CertainTeed Gypsum to endorse its recent campaign, “Why Walls Matter.”