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Fire-rated counter doors: Balancing safety and aesthetics

Construction Specifier

To prevent dangerous smoke infiltration, some door models include integrated gasketing to control drafts and limit smoke’s ability to pass through the door. Building codes mandate specific fire safety measures, and smoke and draft control are crucial requirements. Compliance with building codes.

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Advancing our time-honored traditions through technological innovation

The Korte Company

The embrace of Building Information Modeling (BIM) and LEED certification? That’s why we have an AI team working on an ambitious, secure in-house language model. In many ways, the genius of predictive language models is already here. Just another day at the office. And that bold, innovative spirit? That’s still how we work.

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Can We Make Home Building a Little Less ‘Interesting?’

Pro Builder

The Colorado Springs model for bringing back trade skills training in high schools is spreading. Be honest with yourself: Can you describe your startups as a finely honed process with all plans, specification, selections, options, colors, and sales collateral materials complete before construction of the first model begins?

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Global Growth Surge in Southwest Louisiana

Business Facilities

This model allows employees in all functions to see and interact with the entire team. The Director of Economic Development, Frank Fink will serve as the Parish guide to finding the right site, work through Zoning and Permitting issues and provide a complete set of regional demographic data and interpretation.

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Construction Marketing Secret: Architecture Billings a Leading Indicator of Construction

Construction Marketing

Although decisions to build nonresidential structures are made by hundreds of thousands of private businesses, nonprofit institutions, and government agencies, the first comprehensive indication of planned development typically shows up on an architect’s drafting board. Financing and funding for the project also can be a factor.

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Revit 2017 - New Features and Enhancements

Revit OpEd

It applies to model elements, and graphic display effects, such as shadows and sketchy lines. You can select draft or production quality. When you upgrade a model, the rendering settings that were specified for the NVIDIA mental ray engine are mapped as closely to the appropriate settings for the new engine as possible.

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Green Home Building and Sustainable Architecture: Puerto Vallarta.

Natural Building

Puerto Vallarta Model Home. Puerto Vallarta is on the Pacific coast in the tropical zone of central Mexico, where the climate is generally quite hot and humid. I think that this model home could serve most any place with a hot, humid climate. Good job with the design, but did you put earthquakes in mind when you drafted it?