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Frugal Mom Builds Family Home with Recycled Materials

Natural Building

Beautifully rustic, hand-chiseled pine and cedar timbers are fitted with wooden pegs, but new construction materials and techniques like passive solar were also employed. Reusing old materials kept expenses down. The post Frugal Mom Builds Family Home with Recycled Materials appeared first on Natural Building Blog.

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Redefining Construction Document Management

Viewpoint Construction Technology

Once building begins, plans, specs and drawings are tweaked as efficiencies are noted, errors are corrected or work gets completed throughout the process. Paper has been the traditional format for plans, specs and drawings in construction. Dealing with paper plans and drawings in the field can be a hassle.

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Kerbs In Roads | Types of Kerbs | Shape of Kerbs | Materials of Kerbs in Roads | Kerb Height | What Is Kerb Stone | Materials of Kerb Stone | Road Kerb Details

CivilJungle

Materials of Kerbs in Roads: Kerbs are constructed with many materials like asphalt , the stone of masonry blocks , etc but now a days Portland cement is mostly used for construct the kerbs. The type of materials depends on the nature and purpose of the road. These kerbs are vertical or angle to create a mountable kerb.

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Illuminating wellbeing: Rethinking indoor light implementation

Construction Specifier

Many design elements go into every stage of the construction process, from initial drawings to materials selection, but there is one building design aspect often overlooked: the impact of indoor lighting. When thinking about lighting a room, most people immediately think about brightness and ambiance: can occupants see well inside?

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Tech Tools for Builders: Mobile Apps

Pro Builder

The VirLaser Level app (shown, above) uses your iPhone’s camera to determine whether an object or material application is level. Using the PlanGrid mobile app enables you to publish amended versions of construction drawings to a cloud server and share them. Tech Tools for Builders: Mobile Apps. Wed, 01/06/2021 - 15:02. .

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The New Frameworks Philosophy

Natural Building

New Frameworks , a construction company in Vermont, specializes in natural and local materials. A vital part of its mission is to “draw down” carbon in its projects to reverse emissions. Using a plant-based material such as straw in construction can be environmentally beneficial because it stores carbon from the atmosphere.

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Donna Boeing, office manager and work mom

The Korte Company

The family enjoys weekend tractor pulls and travels throughout Illinois to different county fairs, competing in the hot farm class. And we’ve instilled this in our department that if you’re going somewhere, a meeting, traveling, you send me an email so I know where you’re at because people may need to know.

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