Every day in the United States, more than 10,000 workers are injured on the job with 14 of those injuries resulting in death. While the sheer number of those injuries is staggering, the financial impact to employers is crippling.
When constructing a fire-rated partition, the prescribed gypsum panels must be applied to comply with the information provided in the corresponding fire test. To do otherwise is to risk compromising the integrity of the fire-rated system.
There are lots of small details and design features about EIFS that can help create a better-completed EIFS project. This month’s column is a list of many known-and not-so-well-known-design features that you should be aware of.
The plastering trade has, for thousands of years, passed down the knowledge and skill of the trade from one generation to the next. Except for the inclusion of modern machinery, the way and manner plaster is applied to a wall really hasn’t changed much since before the time of Christ.
We’ve all watched and enjoyed the Discovery Channel television show “How It’s Made” and maybe even had a passing thought about how great it would be to have such a program showcase and explain to the general public what it is we do.
In these uncertain times, contractors have to make decisions that will ultimately have an impact on your business and livelihood. What job to take, which ones to pass up, when to cut staff, when to add staff, where do you add them, when to expand or even drop a certain segment of the market that is just not worth it-decisions, decisions.
A series of design guides developed to help building designers and owners achieve 50 percent energy savings over ASHRAE Standard 90.1 - 2004 are now being rolled out.
Movie reviews are not my specialty but this is an exception worth shouting from the rooftops. “The Tradesmen: Making an Art of Work” is an 88-minute social documentary that portrays the real life work, idiosyncrasies and personal convictions of a variety of working professionals including two plumbers, two painters, a stone/brick mason, several carpenters, two auto mechanics and numerous other craftsmen (and one woman).
Jose and Arturo asked their boss for the money they were owed for working the previous two months. Don Milton reached under his jacket and removed his gun from its holster and placed it on the table in front of them.
Since 2000, when three regional building code organizations (BOCA International; SBCCI; ICBO) combined to form the International Code Council, the ICC has exercised near-total control over the United States building code creation process.
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