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How to Win the Olympics of International Retail Construction

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While most of us will accept delayed Olympic news due to the time zone difference, the same isn’t true when working with international brands and new retail construction. But it’s not just a difference in time zones that needs to be overcome in order to have a successful international retail construction project. So at 7 p.m.

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Welding 101: 6 Different Types

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Welding is a kind of fabrication process that mainly uses high temperatures to melt different pieces of metal together, then allows them to cool and fuse. The current flows through the flux coated welding electrode—the coating makes sure the weld zone isn’t exposed to air while the rod is melting. What is welding? 5) Gas welding.

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The Commercial Construction Checklist to Successful International Retail Projects. Bon Chance!

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Time zones. So we engaged one of our favorite technologies for working in different time zones – Skype. Some international retailers prefer to ship materials from their country, while others let us fabricate millwork locally. But getting from point A to point B with foreign retailers takes a certain savoir faire.

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Design and specification considerations: Stand-alone canopy structure systems

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Freestanding canopy systems can be specified for numerous project applications, fabricated with a choice of materials, and engineered to meet a range of performance requirements. For a stand-alone canopy’s structural columns, steel is the material of choice for its variety of reliable performance characteristics. By Kevin Smith.

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Expanding the exterior footprint

Construction Specifier

In fact, officials of New York City are beginning to re-examine its zoning to ensure green spaces and parks are accessible and equitably distributed throughout the urban landscape. It also creates a new building zone called the ‘mid-doors,’ a term coined recently by Transsolar’s Erik Olsen, in his series “What is Indoors?”

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Reframing and repurposing daylight through adaptive reuse

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When repurposing a structure, architects and designers must navigate through a myriad of constraints, ranging from structural integrity and outdated building systems, to zoning regulations and historical preservation requirements.

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A guide to field notching and drilling LVL and glulam

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Glulam beams are manufactured with lower-grade material in the mid-depth of the beam and higher-grade material positioned on the top and bottom. The highest grade of material is used as the outermost laminations on the tension side of the beam. However, in situations where it is not possible, these guidelines should be followed.