Today’s evolving fireground demands a greater understanding of buildings, occupancy risk profiling (ORP) and building anatomy by all companies operating on the fireground. The identification, ...
Around 2,000 old buildings in the U.S. have been converted into apartments over the past 70 years, with 778 of those conversions taking place in the last decade, according to a new report from ...
Because a Type IV building is more robust and thus more fire resistive — strategically — than a leaner Type III building, they are listed out of order numerically. The August 2009 installment ...
Nicholas Abraham found it peculiar when a growing number of tradesmen seemed to be hanging around his self-storage developments. It's common for small businesses to rent out storage space, but this ...
Toronto-based Diamond Schmitt Architects is taking a leadership role in the development of a sustainable design databank focused on energy-use reduction. The firm's new ecoMetrics tool allows for a ...
Active chilled beams are HVAC devices composed of primary air ducted supply, hydronic coils, and diffuser slots that provide localized sensible cooling to the space 1. Primary air is induced through ...
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