As architects design high-performing commercial buildings, supporting life safety via perimeter fire containment systems is critical. Specifying a tested, listed assembly that incorporates six essential design elements and withstands extreme testing conditions can help architects support passive life safety and optimize opportunities for egress during a commercial building fire.
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Ken Hercenberg does not suffer fools lightly. As technical resource manager for the 800 architects worldwide that for...
July 01, 2002 | Gordon Wright
While many of its competitors are subsidiaries of foreign construction organizations, Providence, R.I.-based Gilbane...
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For industry stalwart The Turner Corp., Dallas, the last 10 months have truly been the best of times and the worst of...
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President, partner Bliss & Nyitray, West Palm Beach, Fla. EDUCATION BSCE, Case Western Reserve University PROFESS...
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America needs more schools. Forty-five percent of the nation's elementary, middle, and high schools were built betwee...
January 01, 2002 | By Jim Crockett, Contributing Editor
As the march of technology advances, it's a constant curve to deliver buildings capable of meeting end users' needs....
October 01, 2001 | By Dave Barista, Associate Editor
As Princeton University's first residence hall designed in the Collegiate Gothic style, Blair and Buyers Residence Ha...
February 26, 2007 | By Dave Barista, Managing Editor
What's covered under the warranty? What are the annual repair and maintenance costs? Does the manufacturer have a rec...
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Rapidly renewable biobased tile Migrations biobased tile is made possible by Armstrong's Biostride polymer. Identical...
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To say that the speculative office market is returning to health would be an egregious overstatement. Vacancy rates r...
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Revitalizing a worn-down or underused building and restoring it to a useful purpose can be one of the most challengin...
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When the National Football League's Arizona Cardinals decided to build a new stadium in 2000, the desert climate was...
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Sixty-four-year-old Robins & Morton has grown from the small Robins Engineering Company of Birmingham, Ala., into...
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When you've got to go, you've got to go. But where? “The reality is that public restrooms matter to the public. The w...
July 01, 2007 | Jim Haughey, Director, Research and Analytics, Reed Construction Data
Healthcare construction spending increased 14% over the last 12 months and is expected to continue expanding at the s...
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From the design and construction of the first pyramids by the Egyptian architect Imhotep in 2780 B.C., until the 20th...
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The nation's colleges and universities are building at such a pace, and to such a level of luxuriance, as to defy aug...
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The show will go on in Kansas City's beloved Music Hall and Municipal Auditorium thanks to a fast-track renovation an...
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Let's see, anything new in the housing market since our report of a year ago? Nothing much. Just the complete collaps...
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After dropping out of both Brown University and Amherst College and finally giving up his dream of playing profession...
