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| Cement and concrete, still outperforming in the sustainability era |
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| As society shifts to a circular, carbon-neutral built environment, concrete continues to deliver ‘best-in-class’ performance as a building material. |
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| Specifying ceiling panels with a high NRC |
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| Standards now require high-performance sound absorption overhead inside many building types. Understanding the acoustic requirements within the building standards and translating those correctly into a project’s written specification is only the first step. One should also understand other potential impacts on the building design to ensure the occupied building sounds good overall when completed.
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| Project News |
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| Texas healthcare facility achieves a contemporary look with metal panels |
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| The architectural design team from Harris Craig Architects utilized a standing-seam metal roof and metal wall panel systems to create a contemporary, modern appearance for the Herrington-Ornelas Health Park in Whitehouse, Texas. The 4041-m2 (43,500-sf) facility offers comprehensive healthcare services, fitness options, and specialty care. |
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| TYPES OF ALLOWANCES IN SECTION 01 21 00 – ALLOWANCES |
| I have been working on rewriting my employer’s master spec Section 01 21 00 – Allowances. The draft has provisions that expressly cover: (1) contingency allowances, (2) quantity allowances, and (3) cash allowances. What types of allowances does your firm’s Section 01 21 00 – Allowances, cover? |
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| BID PACKAGES AND SPECIFICATIONS |
| Wondering how the community handles a specification section, such as 072100–Thermal Insulation, when you need to release the content in several different bid packages. For example, the below slab and foundation wall insulation selections go out in the Footings and Foundations Bid Release, but then the wall and roof selections need to go out in a later Building Envelope Release. Do you find it works better to build off of one document and italicize the added content as if it were an Addendum or CB? Or create a new, separate section with a new number? |
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