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Guarding Your Home: How Heatlok Soya HP Insulation Can Shield Against Canada's Silent Threat – Radon Gas

October 2, 2024

Guarding Your Home: How Heatlok Soya HP Insulation Can Shield Against Canada's Silent Threat – Radon Gas

Protect your home from Radon gas, Canada's #2 leading cause of lung cancer. Applied before the basement floor is poured, Heatlok Soya HP spray foam insulation seals walls, floor seams, and utility fittings in one pass and ensures a safer, healthier home.

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Maximize Your Autumn Garden with TerraCast® Planters

September 26, 2024

Maximize Your Autumn Garden with TerraCast® Planters

Autumn is the perfect time to refresh your outdoor spaces with vibrant container gardens. As cooler weather sets in, creating a stunning garden display becomes all about selecting the right planters and plants. At AECinfo.com, we know how important durable, stylish planters are to achieving a flawless seasonal transformation, and TerraCast® resin planters offer the perfect blend of beauty, sustainability, and long-lasting quality. Ready to dive into autumn gardening? Here are some tips to get started.

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Resources to meet sustainability requirements

March 29, 2023

Resources to meet sustainability requirements

National Gypsum provides products and product disclosure documents that help architects design sustainable buildings

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Designing Health Care Facilities for Optimal IEQ

October 10, 2022

Designing Health Care Facilities for Optimal IEQ

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.

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How Important is Wellness in Your Designs?

November 3, 2021

How Important is Wellness in Your Designs?

Good acoustics, access to natural light, pleasing aesthetics, and sustainable materials all play a role in adding wellness to your designs. Yet in any business or residential environment, indoor air quality (IAQ) may have the most important effect on an individual’s productivity and health.

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LYRA PB Direct-Apply Acoustical Ceiling and Wall Panels provide sustainable and acoustical options

March 17, 2021

LYRA PB Direct-Apply Acoustical Ceiling and Wall Panels provide sustainable and acoustical options

LYRA PB Direct-Apply Acoustical Ceiling and Wall Panels provide sustainable and acoustical options for a wide variety of applications and install direct-to-structure using adhesive.

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Taking the indoors outdoors

March 6, 2020

We humans spend more than 70% of our time inside a building. Yet we have a deep connection with the natural world. This dichotomy is the root of two recent design trends. One trend is biophilic design, where an effort is made to connect the indoors and outdoors. This is done by opening up buildings to natural views while also physically bringing elements of nature inside.

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