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.
In the May column “Keep it Dry,” I talked about issues to be dealt with when using EIFS that incorporate a water resistive barrier. WRBs are most often used in the increasingly common EIFS with drainage. Most of the discussion in that article was about various design aspects.
Putting your head in the sand has never been a successful strategy for man or beast. As a person who is responsible for both the daily operation and strategic direction of a large steel framing manufacturing business, I have great concerns regarding the future of our industry.
The truth is no designer or contractor wants a leaky wall assembly. Past water intrusion problems into walls have created billions of dollars in damage, struck fear in the hearts of architects and led to some drastic overreaction and insane alterations.
Early in my career, I was among a small group of architects and specifiers invited to Europe to learn about the state of the art in PVC building materials. At that time, the anti-PVC propaganda machine in the U.S. was picking up a lot of steam, preying on the ignorance of thousands of architects and persuading them (myself included) to believe that PVC was the “devil’s material.”
Dimitris Spiliadis’ great-grandfather once owned a hotel in Constantinople, which was lost when the Turks invaded the magnificent and historic city (now known as Istanbul).
Thermal performance of exterior steel stud framed walls has always lagged behind that of wood. This critical difference often overshadows steel’s many benefits such as its dimensional consistency, high recycled content, high recyclability, strength, and mold, rot and termite resistance.
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