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I attended a presentation on an office building designed to meet the Living Building Challenge. One of the design concepts was to achieve net zero energy (metered) for the completed design. This means that the metered power sent to the utility grid...
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What are the common single-ply roofing membranes? What are the major differences between them? Selecting roofing membranes is a complex decision...
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The promise of BIM (Building Information Modeling) is that project data can reside in the model and can be extracted by anyone in a form for every...
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In the past two weeks, I attended two different leadership seminars for two professional associations, AIA and CSI. What struck me after attending...
Is your definition of plywood and the woodworker's definition the same? Why is it MDF or particleboard? The term plywood does not define a panel...
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The CSI Academies brought expert instructors and students together, a total of about 140 individuals, for 13 hours of advanced education and learning...
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Building design starts with a concept, a sketch at a macro scale. At the first stroke of the designer's hand, there is no concern for concrete...
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Select the country's top specifiers. Carefully mix with manufacturer's top technical representatives. Add a dash of high-powered education. Let...
What finishing product should I specify for casework? Wood flooring? There are so many choices. How do I know which product is best?
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It seems a relatively simple building. There are only 50 drawings. So why are the specifications 800 pages? It does seem absurd. Let's take a...
