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Code Review Requires Tolerance Consideration
During a state code review, the following comment was issued advising the agency (Owner) of a potential difficulty if the architect designed to the code required minimum.
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Efficient Email Communications
An architect wrote to us to request specification revisions for a project in the middle of the bidding phase. Only one of the comments was unclear....
Wood Preservative Treatment
Drawing Note Says: Treated wood sill plate. What type - Preservative? Fire Retardant? Both are wood treatments. Know the building code to understand...
Resilient Flooring Underlayment
Preparation, preparation, preparation! Understanding that if you do not take steps to ensure the plywood subfloor and underlayment are installed and...
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Indoor/Outdoor Wood Strip Flooring
What were they thinking? That is all I could imagine asking. While walking in Philadelphia, I found an application for wood strip flooring that was...
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HVAC Systems Affecting Perception
While attending the Philadelphia AIA Design on the Delaware conference, I stood in the meeting room pre-function space, a balcony overlooking the...
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The Many Options for LEED Specs
How should LEED compliance be specified? The Construction Specifications Institute's Specifying Practice Group explored the options and the Group's...
Your Guide to the New Draft of LEED - BuildingGreen.com
Environmental Building News (EBN) published a guide to the proposed changes to LEED NC issued for public comment and expected to be released in 2012....
CSI Buys BSD and Master Specification Product
Today, The Construction Specifications Institute (CSI) announced the purchase of Building Systems Design (BSD). See http://www.csinet.org/bsdpr for...