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Eight Common Roofing Materials: Examining Metal, Clay, Slate, And Other Shingle Options
When people decide to replace the roof on their home, they often only consider replacing the previous roofing type. However before calling a contractor, the careful homeo...
Company: Associated Content
Date: January 2008 |
Associated Content |
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Choosing Environmentally Friendly Construction Materials
Each day you awake, a new product has hit the market as "green", some are of this shade and some are just shady. Marketing has a power that can sway even the hardest of h...
Company: HELIUM
Date: January 2008 |
HELIUM |
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The Benefits Of Using Concrete Overlays: How To Use And Apply These New Products
Concrete overlays are a relatively new material that has been heavily used by the construction industry in the last twenty years. Developed to fix cracks on concrete surf...
Company: Associated Content
Date: November 2007 |
Associated Content |
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How To Make Crafts Out Of Construction Materials
Most people have leftover materials from a recent home improvement project in their home. Maybe you have recently had to fix a hole in your wall or have had to replace th...
Company: Associated Content
Date: September 2007 |
Associated Content |
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Using Salvaged Materials For Garden Construction
Salvaged materials that are reused in garden construction differ from recycled materials. Salvaged materials are generally used in their original context, such as with pa...
Company: Associated Content
Date: June 2007 |
Associated Content |
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Guide To Free (Or Cheap) Building Materials
As you can see, there are endless possibilities when it comes to recycling "Pre-owned" building materials, but a better price cannot be found. Forethought must be applied...
Company: Associated Content
Date: February 2007 |
Associated Content |
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Narrow Wall Bracing Without Hold-Downs for Use in a Fully Sheathed House
Tests show Narrow Wall Bracing Method (a portal-frame structure) performs comparably to existing code permitted bracing for residential structures when built on rigid fou...
Company: APA - The Engineered Wood Association
Date: February 2005 |
APA - The Engineered Wood Association |
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Minimize Nail Pops
Nail "pop" or "backout" describes the protrusion of nail heads above the surface some time after they were originally driven into the wood. This sometimes happens when gr...
Company: APA - The Engineered Wood Association
Date: January 2005 |
APA - The Engineered Wood Association |
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A Portal Frame With Hold Downs for Wall Bracing or Engineered Applications
Conventional light-frame construction provisions in the model codes are explicitly prescribed for "conventional" construction as defined therein. There is no engineering ...
Company: APA - The Engineered Wood Association
Date: January 2005 |
APA - The Engineered Wood Association |
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Glulam Design Properties and Lay-up Combinations
Glued laminated timbers (glulam) are manufactured by end joining individual pieces of dimension lumber or boards together with structural adhesives to create long length ...
Company: APA - The Engineered Wood Association
Date: December 2004 |
APA - The Engineered Wood Association |
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Commissioning of Building HVAC Systems for Improving Energy Performance
The demands of building users regarding the environment are growing. There are increasing requirements for comfortable and healthy indoor environments with no excessive u...
Company: IEA
Date: December 2004 |
IEA |
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Diaphragms and Shear Walls: Design/Construction Guide
Wood is the right choice for a host of construction applications. It is the earth's natural, energy efficient and renewable building material. Engineered wood is a better...
Company: APA - The Engineered Wood Association
Date: December 2004 |
APA - The Engineered Wood Association |
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APA Performance Rated Rim Boards
A rim board is the wood component that fills the space between the sill plate and bottom plate of a wall or, in second floor construction, between the top plate and botto...
Company: APA - The Engineered Wood Association
Date: November 2004 |
APA - The Engineered Wood Association |
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Narrow Walls That Work
Narrow Wall Bracing Method, combined with walls that are fully sheathed with plywood or OSB, helps builders meet the bracing requirements of the International Residential...
Company: APA - The Engineered Wood Association
Date: October 2004 |
APA - The Engineered Wood Association |
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Optimizing Initiator Systems for Cured-In-Place-Pipe Infrastructure Repair
The parameters tested in this study that relate to the stability are the stability/gel time at and below 90°F (32°C). The installers want the longest stability possible s...
Company: AMERICAN COMPOSITES MANUFACTURERS ASSOCIATION
Date: October 2004 |
AMERICAN COMPOSITES MANUFACTURERS ASSOCIATION |
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Addressing Floor/Ceiling Noise Issues in Multifamily Construction
Current multifamily floor/ceiling assemblies are problematic as they require multiple layers of materials and trades that produce risk-prone STC and IIC results. Worse, t...
Company: Quiet Solution
Date: October 2004 |
Quiet Solution |
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Air Filtration Can Make Breathing Easier
In recent years, people have become aware of the issue of indoor air quality as independent studies have focused attention on the deleterious effects of airborne contamin...
Company: FacilitiesNet
Date: October 2004 |
FacilitiesNet |
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Hurricane-Rated Windows
Which storm-resistant window is right for a particular opening depends on that opening's "design pressure." An opening's design pressure is expressed as a pair of positiv...
Company: The Journal of Light Construction
Date: October 2004 |
The Journal of Light Construction |
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Metal Sound Retardant Door Hardware Information Bulletin
The paper states that Overly Door Company has been a leading manufacturer and supplier of Sound Retardant Acoustical Doors to the commercial and industrial marketplaces f...
Company: Overly Door Company
Date: September 2004 |
Overly Door Company |
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Wood Sound Retardant Door Hardware Information Bulletin
The paper mentions that Overly Door Company has been a leading manufacturer and supplier of Wood Sound Retardant Acoustical Doors to the commercial and industrial marketp...
Company: Overly Door Company
Date: September 2004 |
Overly Door Company |
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Internally Damped Subfloor Panel
Engineered internally damped plywood sub-floor system to damp noise and vibration in new building construction and renovation. Ideal for homes, condos, apartments, office...
Company: Quiet Solution
Date: September 2004 |
Quiet Solution |
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Whither North Carolina Furniture Manufacturing
North Carolina's furniture manufacturing industry has contracted in recent years as imports have gained a greater share of the domestic furniture market. Rapid growth of ...
Company: Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond
Date: September 2004 |
Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond |
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Protecting Your Property From Flooding: Heating, Ventilating, and Air Conditioning Equipment
Heating, ventilating, and cooling (HVAC) equipment, such as a furnace or hot water heater, can be damaged extensively if it is inundated by flood waters. The amount of da...
Company: Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)
Date: September 2004 |
Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) |
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LineaHeat Digital Heater Control
In order to provide comfort, indoor air quality through proper ventilation, and energy savings, the discharge temperature and the airflow rate of a VAV zone controller mu...
Company: Krueger
Date: September 2004 |
Krueger |
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Legacy Report: ER-1952
303 Siding panels are permitted to be applied either directly to framing or over sheathing, provided all siding joints occur over framing and are protected with a continu...
Company: APA - The Engineered Wood Association
Date: September 2004 |
APA - The Engineered Wood Association |
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10 Things You Should Know About HVAC Refrigerants and the Phase-out Schedule
The age of a building's air conditioning system, the cost to maintain it, and the cost to replace it are all factors to weigh as HCFC refrigerants are phased out. The bes...
Company: McQuay International
Date: August 2004 |
McQuay International |
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Impact of U.S.- Canada Softwood Lumber Trade Dispute on Forest Products Companies: A Stock Market Perspective
This paper examines the impact of a series of events related to the U.S.-Canada softwood lumber trade dispute on the stock prices of forest products firms in both countri...
Company: Auburn University
Date: August 2004 |
Auburn University |
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Recovering Wood for Reuse and Recycling a United States Perspective
The United States is a country with a vast forest resource, comprising about one-third of its total land area (or about 3 million square kilometers). The wide usage of wo...
Company: United States Department of Agriculture
Date: August 2004 |
United States Department of Agriculture |
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Training Spotlight: HVAC Systems
Managers seeking to improve technicians' inspection and troubleshooting skills must make tough decisions related to worker training. Maintenance and engineering managers ...
Company: FacilitiesNet
Date: August 2004 |
FacilitiesNet |
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Allowable Depth-to-Width Ratios for Glulam Beams
If a glulam beam has the compression edge fully braced as would occur by the normal attachment of sheathing or decking with mechanical fasteners, there is no need to limi...
Company: APA - The Engineered Wood Association
Date: August 2004 |
APA - The Engineered Wood Association |
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BMS or PLC? Controlling the Regulated Environment
In the ever-changing world of pharmaceutical facilities delivery, there appears to be a growing interest in the utilization of programmable logic controller (PLC) technol...
Company: Advanstar Communications
Date: August 2004 |
Advanstar Communications |
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Hurricane Shutter Designs
One of the best ways to protect a home from damage in windstorms is to install shutters over all large windows and glass doors. Shutters protect doors and windows from wi...
Company: APA - The Engineered Wood Association
Date: July 2004 |
APA - The Engineered Wood Association |
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How to Build a Better Home
The size of the American family is shrinking, but the American house keeps getting bigger. The average new home today is almost twice as large as one built in the 1960s, ...
Company: Natural Resources Defense Council
Date: July 2004 |
Natural Resources Defense Council |
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Fire-Hazard Classification of Construction Plywood Panels
Plywood of various types and grades was tested for flame spread (and for smoke developed and fuel contributed). Variables included species groups, glue type, thickness, s...
Company: APA - The Engineered Wood Association
Date: July 2004 |
APA - The Engineered Wood Association |
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Product Configuration Software
This paper discusses about product configurators which automatically generate a valid order ready for manufacturing. By using configurator technology, it can quickly trai...
Company: Seradex
Date: July 2004 |
Seradex |
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Wood Structural Panel Sheathing on Hip Roofs
A special case may arise in hip-roof construction when hip-roof trusses are used. In this case, to keep the panel strength axis perpendicular to the hip trusses, the pane...
Company: APA - The Engineered Wood Association
Date: July 2004 |
APA - The Engineered Wood Association |
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Legacy Report: NER-108
Structural-use panels meet performance requirements established by APA for concentrated, impact, and uniform loads for the end use span on the grade mark. Panels are test...
Company: APA - The Engineered Wood Association
Date: July 2004 |
APA - The Engineered Wood Association |
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Legacy Report: NER-486
Beams are fabricated in accordance with ANSI A190.1 using the grade combinations noted in this paper. Manufacturing details are provided by Engineered Wood Systems and ar...
Company: APA - The Engineered Wood Association
Date: July 2004 |
APA - The Engineered Wood Association |
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Evolving Products for an Evolving Marketplace
This paper addresses the AMSCO windows products and their various properties. AMSCO Windows has been in the window manufacturing industry for more than 50 years, and is q...
Company: AMSCO Windows
Date: June 2004 |
AMSCO Windows |
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APA Performance Rated Rim Boards: Canadian Limit States Design
A rim board is the wood component that fills the space between the sill plate and bottom plate of a wall or, in second floor construction, between the top plate and botto...
Company: APA - The Engineered Wood Association
Date: June 2004 |
APA - The Engineered Wood Association |
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