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Shawmut Design and Construction blended the best of old-world building practices with advanced technology to restore the second-oldest building on Boston College’s campus. The 10,683-m2 (115,000-sf), two-year renovation of 98-year-old St. Mary’s Hall—located in the heart of the campus on historic Linden Lane—incorporated new construction and careful historic preservation methods, combined with the use of the latest technology and building information modeling (BIM) expertise.
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Widely used in buildings ranging from retail/office complexes to hospitals, storefront and window wall systems are specified for ground-level fenestration and entrances, and for punched and horizontal bands (or ribbons) of windows. Unlike curtain walls, which can span multiple floors, storefronts and window walls are usually limited to spans between floor assemblies.
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EVENTS
September 30-October 3
CONSTRUCT & the CSI Annual Convention
Informa Exhibitions
St. Louis, Missouri
www.constructshow.com
October 14-16
MetalCon
Metal Construction Association
Tampa, Florida
www.metalcon.com
November 18-20
Greenbuild International Conference and Expo
Informa Exhibitions
Washington, D.C.
greenbuildexpo.com
December 2-4
The Buildings Show (Construct Canada, PM Expo, HomeBuilder & Renovator Expo, World of Concrete Pavilion, and IIDEXCanada)
Informa Canada
Toronto, Ontario
www.constructcanada.com
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To help translate what the latest changes to building codes mean for opportunities in wood construction, the American Wood Council (AWC) has introduced four new standards that are adopted by reference in the 2015 International Building Code (IBC) and the 2015 International Residential Code (IRC). |
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Computer-aided design (CAD) has had unprecedented impact on how buildings are envisioned and constructed. From the early 1980s, where AutoCAD revolutionized 2-D drafting, to the present, where material modeling, earthquake simulation, and photo-realistic 3-D rendering are common, computer-based tools have affected every aspect of the architecture/engineering/construction (AEC) industry. |
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