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Building
Evaluating the Efficacy and Sustainability of Xypex Crystalline Waterproofing in Concrete
March 27, 2025
Concrete is essential to modern infrastructure but faces challenges due to its porous nature and susceptibility to cracking. This can lead to water ingress, reinforcing-steel corrosion and decreased structural lifespan. This article examines the Xypex Crystalline Waterproofing exclusive and proprietary technology, focusing on its technical performance, environmental sustainability and economic viability.
Ensuring Compliance with Centralized Mailbox Solutions
March 6, 2025
When implementing multifamily mailbox solutions, adherence to USPS regulations is just the beginning. State, local, and federal accessibility codes, along with the Fair Housing Act, all play crucial roles. Property owners must ensure that centralized mailboxes comply with USPS standards and accessibility regulations to avoid mail disruptions or permit issues. Florence Corporation offers a comprehensive range of USPS-approved mailboxes and parcel lockers, ensuring compliance with all regulatory requirements.
High-Performance Closed-Cell Spray Foam Insulation Solutions
January 31, 2025
Closed-cell spray foam insulation is a high-performance solution for a variety of building needs, offering superior benefits such as air, water, and vapor barriers all in one product. Known for its higher density compared to open-cell foam, it provides a seamless, airtight building envelope that adheres to most surfaces and expands to fill gaps, making it ideal for commercial, residential, institutional, industrial, and agricultural applications.
Enhancing Airport Fire Safety with Smoke Guard Solutions
January 28, 2025
Ensuring fire safety in airports is a critical yet challenging task, given the complex nature of these environments. With high foot traffic and diverse operational functions, airports require advanced solutions to manage fire risks. Smoke Guard’s fire and smoke curtains offer an effective way to enhance safety measures, ensuring both the protection of passengers and seamless operations during emergencies.
Choosing the Right Acoustical Rating for Smoke Vents: A Key Consideration for Noise Control and Safety
January 21, 2025
When it comes to balancing safety and noise control in modern building design, understanding acoustical ratings like STC and OITC is essential. These ratings help architects and designers select the right materials for projects where sound insulation and performance are critical. Acoustical smoke vents, such as the ACDSV model from The BILCO Company, demonstrate how innovation can address both life safety requirements and environmental noise reduction. Dive into our latest article to learn how these ratings impact design decisions and explore a real-world example of their effectiveness in action.
StonePly Stone Panels: The Ultimate Solution for Modern Stone Cladding
December 6, 2024
StonePly stone panels revolutionize traditional stone cladding with their unique blend of natural beauty, strength, and advanced engineering. Whether you’re designing a skyscraper or a boutique interior, StonePly offers unmatched benefits.
Morin Matrix Series™: Versatile Rainscreen & Wall Panel Solutions
November 20, 2024
The Morin Matrix Series™ is a concealed fastener rainscreen/wall panel system. It features ten different profiles with unique bold box rib configurations. Combine with other Matrix panels, or with panels from our Integrity Series or Pulse Series.
Sto Corp. Launching Sto Strike Defense to Defend Against Blunt Force Impacts
July 15, 2024
Sto Corp., the innovative world leader in claddings, air barriers, coatings, and restoration systems, announces the launch of Sto Strike Defense, an ultra-high impact puncture resistant solution designed to protect EIFS (Exterior Insulation and Finish Systems) from punctures caused by woodpeckers, as well as blunt and sharp objects.
Innovative Natural Stone Panels Redefining Architectural Possibilities
January 2, 2024
Imagine the strength and timeless elegance of natural stone combined with lightweight, resilient properties. Enter a groundbreaking solution revolutionizing architectural design: a fusion of stone and innovation known across the industry for its unmatched versatility — a composite panel system redefining possibilities in construction and design.
Introducing Stromberg GFRC: The Future of Reinforced Concrete
August 10, 2023
Traditional concrete has long been fortified with steel to enhance its strength, but a revolutionary evolution has occurred with the advent of Glass Fiber Reinforced Concrete (GFRC). GFRC takes concrete to a new level, harnessing the power of glass fibers for reinforcement instead of steel. This groundbreaking innovation has redefined the possibilities of construction materials and techniques.
Designing Health Care Facilities for Optimal IEQ
October 10, 2022
Acoustics are crucial to Indoor Environmental Quality (IEQ). When a surgeon is operating or a doctor is delivering important news to a patient, sound control is essential. And in certain areas of hospitals and urgent care centers, the Sound Transmission Class (STC) rating between rooms must be higher to produce quieter results.
MortarNet™ with Insect Barrier™ - the original mortar dropping collection device
September 30, 2022
In masonry cavity walls, mortar collection above the flashing and weep hole levels is vital for proper masonry cavity wall performance and to prevent water damage. In today’s walls, it’s common to see a 2” cavity reduced to the minimum requirement of 1” with the inclusion of insulation, so the need for better ventilation is essential to keep the wall dry and trouble-free. MortarNet™ with Insect Barrier™ suspends mortar droppings above the flashing and weeps, so they stay clear and unobstructed. The patented Insect Barrier helps deter insects from entering the cavity through the weep holes. Its NEW design using a structural strand polymer mesh allows moisture to flow to the weeps and significantly greater airflow within the cavity to promote drying.
The world's finest custom and stock architectural columns
August 26, 2022
First found on Ancient Egyptian temples and later used in Greek and Roman architecture, architectural columns are an impressive element that can transform ordinary buildings into impressive and imposing masterpieces. Stromberg's Tuscan, Doric, Ionic, Corinthian, and Composite architectural columns are designed and manufactured in accordance with the highest standards of quality and craftsmanship.
Exterior Architectural Cornice
June 24, 2022
Buildings that have a uniform texture and color can be monotonous; exterior architectural cornice is an effective and very simple way to enhance the design and visual appeal of most types of buildings. Architectural cornice serves a number of aesthetic functions. First, it can provide variety and excitement to most buildings. A building with architectural cornice will invariably be more pleasing to the eye than an identical building that does not contain this element of design. Second, cornice provides a sense of balance to structures. The lower portions of most buildings have a thicker and heavier area, and architectural cornice ensures that the top of the building will as well. Exterior architectural cornice also provides a definitive finishing touch to the building by crowning it.
The Belden Brick Company’s New Design Tool – All The Resources You Need In One Place
June 20, 2022
Our goal is to help you on your journey to finding the perfect Belden brick for your project and offer inspiration with a variety of distinctive colors, adaptable sizes, and exclusive textures. With this new digital resource, we’ve laid out our product catalog in a way that is planned for convenience with essential technical details like 3-part specs and Revit files. Get started on your next project now!
Closed-Cell Insulation
June 15, 2022
HBS closed-cell spray foam insulation outperforms traditional insulation by providing an air, water and vapor barrier in a single component. Spray foam insulation adheres to most surfaces and expands to create a seamless, airtight building envelope. In addition, it offers outstanding high-performance options for commercial, residential, institutional, industrial or agricultural applications.
Safeguarding the Health of Building Occupants
April 25, 2022
Workplace indoor air quality (IAQ) concerns were brought to the forefront in 1994 when the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) issued its first proposal for regulating IAQ. Since then, improving IAQ in schools, healthcare facilities, and commercial buildings has become a high priority of the Green building movement. Now, the best step building and design professionals can take to improve indoor air quality is to be proactive and use building science principles.
Lamit Structural Insulated Panels (SIPs)
August 20, 2021
Lamit structural insulated panels (SIPs) are high-performance building panels for floors, walls, and roofs. Each panel is made using expanded polystyrene (EPS) interceding two structural skins of oriented strand board (OSB). Lamit SIPs are as versatile as they are efficient. They can be custom fabricated to your specific project demands. The result is a building system that is very strong, predictable, energy efficient, and cost effective.
Looking for better fire-rated horizontal membrane assemblies?
August 11, 2021
As an architect, you’re often confronted with providing fire-rated horizontal assemblies in your designs. Sometimes it isn’t feasible to construct a full fire-rated floor- or roof-ceiling assembly based on existing conditions, or it isn’t possible to construct new walls up to existing rated assemblies due to height restrictions or physical obstructions, such as piping and ductwork.
Houston House: StoTherm® ci with Stolit® Milano finish provides comfort and visual appeal
July 7, 2021
The East Village is one of New York City’s trendiest neighborhoods, and Houston Street is one of the busiest thoroughfares. For the Houston House project, Jeffrey Cole of Jeffrey Cole Architects needed a design that was stylish enough for the East Village residents who would call it home while simultaneously addressing the issues that come with traffic noise. And that’s before we even begin talking about dealing with New York City’s blustery winters and brutal summers. Through creative design, clever use of the StoTherm ci exterior wall system and expert application of a Stolit Milano finish, Cole made quick work of all three challenges in spectacularly successful fashion.