While modern flooring systems predominantly feature the durable reinforced concrete floor slab, previously there had been a number of different materials such as brick, terracotta, and a group of materials and methods known as alternative concrete systems, which are still prevalent in a lot of built structures.
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Woodland Park Zoo Seattle, Washington, has found a solution to heat and humidity loss in the Komodo Dragons enclosure with the use of special energy-efficient daylights, without having to build a new enclosure.
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The design for Alibaba’s Shanghai headquarters by the U.S. firm Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM) reveals a distinctive, modular layout reliant on expansive column-free, long-span spaces and a variety of enclosed areas to accommodate a diversity of workstation layouts to suit expanding, contracting and overlapping teams.
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Cushing Terrell’s architecture and design teams reconfigured the existing floor plan of the company’s new Seattle office to allow for greater workforce flow and opportunities for collaboration by motivating employees to break free from quieter, focused workspaces.
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Architecture firm Dyer Brown has renewed Sappi North America’s Boston, Massachusetts, headquarters by using environmentally friendly finishes, materials, and fixtures to meet sustainability and employee health goals.
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Recently appointed new president and CEO AC Powell, JD, CPS, will guide the National Institute of Building Sciences (NIBS) by creating building industry and public and private sector connections to lead the nation’s built environment future.
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The Construction Specifier's series of sponsored e-books focusing on technical discussions about maintaining resilient flooring systems.
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Muskegon city is working with Michigan Technological University on a pilot recycling project making use of a mix of rubber and concrete developed from more than 10,000 scrap tires to repave a part of Sherman Boulevard.
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The $6.5 million McGrath Family Mountain Center, to be built on an 873-m2 (9,400 sf) site located on the base of the slope of Park City Mountain Resort in Utah, will replace a 20-year-old center put in place temporarily for individuals of different abilities.
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The Beverly Willis Architecture Foundation (BWAF) has selected engineer Fiona Cousins, chair of the Americas for the global professional services firm Arup, and architect Elaine Molinar, managing partner of Snøhetta’s U.S. practice, as awardees for their contributions to the fields of architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC).
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