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Post-COVID Crystal Ball: How Might This Pandemic Influence Design?

A friend recently reminded me that modern French architect Le Corbusier designed his iconic Villa Savoye with a handwashing sink...

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How Zinc Plating Enhances Architectural Elements

Metal architectural structures are designed to be both functional and aesthetically appealing. Electroplating elements of those structures with a zinc...

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Specifying Snow Retention s

Rooftop avalanches cause hundreds of millions of dollars in property damage, personal injury and even death each year—clearly life-health-safety related...

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Specifying Snow Retention s for Standing Seam Roofs

With the many configurations and diverse varieties of snow retention s that are on the market today for standing seam...

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Airborne Contaminant Removal

Last month we explored science-based guidelines and recommendations for health and safety as we prepare to return to work, school...

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Climate Change, Natural Disasters and Buildings

Climate change and the associated threat to the built environment due to more frequent and severe natural disasters are much...