Link: enr.construction.com
ENR’s Nadine Post reported recently on research findings that may carry broad implications. Representatives from American Concrete Institute (ACI) and Gustavo…
Link: hhmrlaw.blogspot.com
Chad Johnson, an associate at Higgins, Hopkins, McLain & Roswell, LLC - a Colorado construction litigation firm, offers insight into a recent decision. In the case of…
Link: www.koreatimes.co.kr
Techno-Mart is a 39-story shopping mall located in Seoul, South Korea. On July 5, 2011, the building was evacuated due to significant vibrations experienced at upper…
Link: www.buildinggreen.com
A core concept in high performance building is to create a strong thermal barrier between the inside and outside of a home. Building materials at exterior walls…
Link: cee.mit.edu
Alice Waugh, at MIT’s Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, recently wrote about a new study that may significantly alter our understanding of the performance and…
Link: greenbuildingelements.com
Concrete is one of the building products that have literally transformed our world. With the addition of steel reinforcing, this amazing product allows humans to…
Link: buildingenvelope.wordpress.com
Christopher Matthews, a senior consultant and vice president at Glazing Consultants International, LLC, authored an excellent article providing an overview of…
I’ve been active in social media for a number of years. Since most of the early adopters of technology are in the tech industry, most of the early blogs and Twitter feeds were heavily skewed…
Link: www.wired.com
News broke recently from the shipyards here in San Diego that one of the new Littoral class of Navy warships is having some issues. According to David Axe of Wired, value…
In Part 1 of my interview with LiMa Solutions, Inc., we looked at the background of the firm’s principals, Ed Martinet and Paul Viau.
In Part 2, we looked at the life-cycle of a…
Link: www.10news.com
A pool of magma fifteen miles wide lies beneath four buttes located in the Imperial Valley near the south end of the Salton Sea. The USGS states that an eruption is possible….
Life as an American attorney these days is little more than a steady progression of more and more degrading news stories about the ever-declining status of your job, and, by extension, the rapid downward spiral of your worth as a human being. When we last checked in on the unfortunate underemployed would-be litigators, they were getting their own formerly outsourced jobs backsourced to them, at a fraction of the pay.
Alex Wilson, this year’s winner of the Hanley Award for Vision and Leadership in Sustainable Housing, selected EnGuard Insulation by Vita Nonwovens as the BuildingGreen Product of the Week…
A proposed rewrite of the certified wood policy in the LEED rating systems failed to get enough votes from U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) members to become policy. USGBC announced that of…
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