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What Is Your Best Source for Product Research?
Because of discussions about a current project, I got to thinking: Just what is the best product research source? Since there are so many sources, what can you believe?
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Sound Transmission through Glass
You are designing a residential facility near an airport or a busy highway with large expanses of glass. How do you prevent the noise from nearby...
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How Perfect Must Specifications Be?
I would like to produce perfect documents every time. However, I remember Hal Barcus, one of my architecture professors saying, "Architecture is...
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Is it a Product or a Building?
The manufacturing industry mass produces many of the same, or essentially the same, items offered for sale to industry or the general public....
Chemical Masonry Cleaning
How can you make sure you get that "like new" look for the completed masonry? Detergent washing is only removing the surface dirt - not the right...
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Division 01 - It's not boilerplate!
Division 01 sets the basic rules for administrative procedures of a construction contract. You may think that once written for a particular firm,...
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What thickness is that gage?
If you find yourself caught between tradition and current industry practice for specifying sheet metal thicknesses you are not alone. It has been...
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What Should I Look for During Submittal Review?
An architect recently asked that I give an opinion about a shop drawing and what was actually installed on a project site. The installation was...
Portable Fire Extinguisher Selection
So many choices! What types and how many fire extinguishers do I really need? I don't have a copy of NFPA 10 that the code references. Isn't there a...
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Building a Community with Social Media
I am not certain how to measure a community today. Before social media, I could have counted business cards in my Rolodex and friends in my...