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Henry Construction crashes into administration

Construction Enquirer

Insolvency experts from FRP Advisory took control of the London-based residential tower builder yesterday evening. Set up by his father William Henry in 1976 as a concrete frame contractor, Mark Henry took over running the business in 2002, growing the business into a design and build contractor lifting revenue from £20m to £140m.

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Michael G. Smith Writes about the Value of Cob

Natural Building

Earthen materials have excellent thermal mass properties which lend themselves to efficient passive solar designs, reducing energy use for heating and cooling over the long run. But cob can be combined with better-insulating techniques such as straw bale, straw-clay, chip-and-slip, hempcrete , or ricecrete in a hybrid design.

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#68:? Energy Code Compliance

NH Construction Law

RSA 155-D, first enacted in 1979 before the international building codes came into prominence, has largely been redundant since New Hampshire’s adoption of the International Energy Conservation Code as part of its state building code ( RSA 155-A ) in 2002. HB 1472 was intended to clean up that redundancy. Section 103.1

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Maryland Bans Polystyrene and Enacts 31 other New Environmental Laws

Green Building Law Update

In 2014 the legislature established the original “Coast Smart” siting and design criteria requirements including created a Coast Smart Council. The bill also delays the implementation date of the Coast Smart siting and design criteria that are modified and made more broadly applicable from July 1, 2019, to July 1, 2020. Forest Cover.

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Two Week Natural Building Intensive

Natural Building

Learn skills, techniques, and design theory to create your own beautiful, durable, energy-efficient home from local and site-harvested materials. We will also give you the theoretical knowledge to design a regionally appropriate passive solar home. Three meals a day will be prepared on site, largely from local organic ingredients.

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What Are Planted  Column, Floating Column, Hanging Column, and Stub Column

CivilJungle

This is widely used in high storied buildings for both commercial and residential purpose. The floating column is designed as a regular column. The code of earthquake engineering has been designed with the aim that people get enough time to escape from the building, the building is less damaged and the building comes in faster use.

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Revit OpEd: How Many Worksets Do I Need?

Revit OpEd

Floors Residential. I look for building design separation and programmatic cues to help decide where to assign worksets. Revit Consultant - Revit Training, Revit Implementation and Navisworks I started using Revit at work in 2002. Building Shell or Envelope. Vertical Circulation. Grids - Structure. Grids - Architecture.

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