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Material health: Metal fabric in healthcare design

Construction Specifier

By Dale Payne Photos ©Moris Moreno Photography/courtesy GKD Metal Fabrics Pandemic-level illness, a nationwide mental health crisis, and healthcare worker burnout are fueling a reimagined future for America’s healthcare infrastructure. Why metal fabric? percent annually this year and next.

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101 Top Products for 2019

BD+C

From security doors to metal ceilings, fabric ducts to rainscreen wall systems, linear drains to bacteria-killing LED lighting, these are the products that appeared in the pages of the magazine over the past 12 months that readers wanted to learn more about.

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What Fabric Is Best for Stretchy Pants?

Work Gearz

You must have wondered at least once what fabric is best for stretchy pants since not all options offer the best comfort. But, it’s Lycra aka Spandex aka Elastane that makes all other kinds of fabrics stretchable. It’s just the Pandora box that opens with the revelation of which fabric is the best fabric for stretchy pants.

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Security, sustainability among priorities at nation's largest engineering firms

BD+C

Major new developments at engineering and engineering/architecture firms in 2017-18: BURNS & MCDONNELL strengthened its direct-hire construction offering with the acquisition of two specialty contractors: AZCO, a full-service industrial constructor and pipe and metal fabricator based in Appleton, Wis.;

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Curtain wall design-assist: Navigating the process for success

Construction Specifier

Technological advancements in curtain wall design tools, materials, prototyping, and fabrication techniques offer new avenues for achieving these lofty design and performance goals. The architectural design of curtain walls must be developed alongside increasing demand for high-performing, energy-efficient solutions.

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Is Gravity Part of OSHA’s LOTO Regulation?

FDR Safety

Examples include: A skilled worker setting up a frame for welding and fabrication and a 400 lb. piece fell off the fixture because it wasn’t secured A rigger who pulled a stabilizing pin and an I beam slid off onto his foot A journeyman millwright who was under a 7500 lb.

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Is Gravity Part of OSHA’s LOTO Regulation?

FDR Safety

Examples include: A skilled worker setting up a frame for welding and fabrication and a 400 lb. piece fell off the fixture because it wasn’t secured A rigger who pulled a stabilizing pin and an I beam slid off onto his foot A journeyman millwright who was under a 7500 lb.