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Comfort Systems Road Map: A Plug-and-Play Residential Duct System

Pro Builder

Comfort Systems Road Map: A Plug-and-Play Residential Duct System. How strategic Building America research helped create an innovative, market-ready HVAC solution for heating and cooling ducts inside conditioned spaces. Today, PEX is the predominant plumbing system in new residential construction. . Mon, 09/27/2021 - 15:05.

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Building for better fire resilience in WUI zones

Construction Specifier

Photo courtesy ROCKWOOL North America Photo courtesy By Rick Roos Wildfires continue to make headlines and the long-term prognosis is concerning, as experts forecast more of the same in coming years. Yet, building in wildland urban interface (WUI) zones continues at a fast pace. Primarily for affordability. Primarily for affordability.

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Why Are Developers Building Luxury Condos in Cities Facing an Affordable Housing Crisis?

Pro Builder

In pricey coastal markets, residential land is expensive. Rather than building inexpensive units, those developers are adding a large share of luxury condos due to higher demand and bigger profits, Forbes reports. is short 7.3 million housing units for low-income renters, according to the National Low Income Housing Coalition.

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Fifth Avenue: A Top 10 Great Street For 2012

Buisness Facilities Contributed Content

The American Planning Association (APA) has announced the designation of Fifth Avenue as one of 10 Great Streets for 2012 under the organization’s Great Places in America program. I am proud that the American Planning Association has chosen Fifth Avenue as one of this year’s Great Streets in America.”.

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Daikin

Contractor Magazine

The Daikin Texas Technology Park (DTTP) is a new state-of-the art business campus that consolidates many of Daikin’s HVAC (Heating, Ventilating, and Air Conditioning) manufacturing and logistics facilities across North America. Daikin invested over $400 million to construct the facility on a 500 acre site just outside of Houston, TX.

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Net zero building design and air leakage

GCP Applied Technologies

climate zones 3 – 8 (all but the hottest southern regions) and ? climate zones 1 -2 (Florida, southern Texas and part of Arizona). Source: NIST Technical Note 1847, “ Design Challenges of the NIST Net Zero Energy Residential Test Facility ” March 2015, pg 4. North America customer service: 1-877-4AD-MIX (1-877-423-6491).

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Masonry construction: Solving for thermal bridging

Construction Specifier

Continuous insulation (ci) is now required in walls throughout most of North America, per the International Energy Conservation Code ( IECC ). The last edition added a new climate zone to the map (Figure 1). A building’s location can be used to identify its climate zone—zero through eight—from warmest and driest to coldest.

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