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Let's Win the Concrete Floor Moisture Battle - Together
Impervious flooring. Water-based adhesives. Fly ash and slag pozzolans. Vapor retarders. Extreme surface pH. Fast-track scheduling. All are coming...
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SFRM Types and Applications
What binder, density, and bond strength are required for sprayed fire-resistive materials? New building code requirements include additional...
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Multipurpose Design Documents
What documents are architects obligated to produce? The obvious answer may be drawings, of course, to show what design must be constructed. Under AIA...
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Fire Resistant CMU
Did you just severely restrict, or eliminate competition by including a UL design number for fire resistive masonry partitions? Unknowingly, perhaps....
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What Is Your Best Source for Product Research?
Because of discussions about a current project, I got to thinking: Just what is the best product research source? Since there are so many sources,...
Sound Transmission through Glass
You are designing a residential facility near an airport or a busy highway with large expanses of glass. How do you prevent the noise from nearby...
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Is it a Product or a Building?
The manufacturing industry mass produces many of the same, or essentially the same, items offered for sale to industry or the general public....
Portable Fire Extinguisher Selection
So many choices! What types and how many fire extinguishers do I really need? I don't have a copy of NFPA 10 that the code references. Isn't there a...
Defining Masonry Restoration Scope
When is the scope of work on a restoration project prepared? On what does the contractor base his bid? Too often, the scope of work on a restoration...