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| Ground breaks on Missouri academic hub |
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| At a time when many capital projects are on hold, Missouri’s Drury University offers a glimpse of a more hopeful future. The university recently broke ground on the institution’s first new academic building in two decades. |
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| Measuring a building’s embodied carbon |
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The focus on energy efficiency is leading to widespread improvements in the built environment. Many designers are now giving greater attention to the impacts of building materials. The ability to understand and measure a building’s environmental impact is pivotal as we work to make structures more sustainable. |
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| Specifying ACI certification builds confidence in concrete flatwork construction |
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| Good quality control can result in significant cost and time savings. Therefore, it is in everyone’s interest to promote quality and require contractors who maintain the highest industry standards that are confirmed by certification, such as the ones offered by the American Concrete Institute (ACI).
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| Timeless steel windows unite old and new at NY comedy center |
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| The National Comedy Center in Jamestown, New York, is partly housed in the historic Jamestown Gateway Station building. In the early 1930’s, the station featured custom steel windows as part of its chic Art Deco design. Therefore, it was a natural choice to provide steel replacement windows for the historic building as well as steel windows and doors for the new construction when the comedy center redeveloped the site. |
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| Inside CSI |
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| BUILDING PRODUCTS SAMPLE FULFILLMENT |
| I am looking for input regarding sample fulfillment services. There are several big name companies out there offering this service, thinking specifically of MaterialBank and Swatchbox. How often, if ever, are you guys using these services versus reaching out directly to the manufacturer for samples? Do these services provide enough value to you as an architect/specifier/engineer to warrant the substantial cost to the building product manufacturer?
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| CONTRACTOR INCENTIVES: THE CARROT VS. THE STICK |
| Contract clauses intended to discourage certain actions or outcomes are common. Among these are liquidated damages and penalties for late completion, special (conditional) damages that apply when the contractor creates environmental messes, withholding of retainage for potential non-payment of subcontractors and suppliers, performance damages for under-performing equipment or systems, and other negative inducements. On the other hand, positive inducements to the contractor via incentives to achieve more than the contractually indicated minimums, may also have a strong influence, because a carrot can often be more attractive than a stick. This blog post presents alternative means of encouraging contractors’ positive performance.
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