Thermal Performance
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- Construction Materials
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- Alcoa Inc.,
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- Human Resources,
- Management,
- Performance,
- Performance Management,
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- Workforce Management
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- Alcoa
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Overview: Despite the wealth of knowledge within the architectural, engineering, fabrication and installation professions, it is an unfortunate reality that buildings are still being constructed with fundamental design flaws. These usually only manifest themselves once the building is in service. With aluminium window and curtain walling systems, the primary indicators of poor design are condensation and condensate run off. Typically the blame falls initially on the fenestration systems or their installation. Often, however, the problem is actually found to lie in the structural concept, such as a projecting steel beam causing cold bridging. This White Paper will address these issues, and also consider the individual roles and responsibilities of architects, structural engineers, fabricators and installers in ensuring that such fundamental defects are ironed out at the design stage.
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Format: PDF | Size: 466KB | Date: Jun 2002 | Pages: 15
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