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Showing 1 to 20 of 27 for “"Building products"”.
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The adoption of innovative wood processing technologies in the building products industry
… processing technologies was analyzed for building products businesses. This study examined the two components of wood building products businesses: the structural panel industry and the softwood Iumber industry. To ensure that the relevance of adopting of innovative processing technologies …
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Impact of ventilation system operation and building products on perceived indoor air quality
Currently, the ventilation rate in non-industrial buildings is determined per human occupant regardless of the pollutant emissions from building materials, ventilation systems and other sources. With the intention of saving energy, the ventilation systems in many office buildings are turned off …
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Alkali-activated materials and Geopolymers from wastes and secondary raw materials: innovative and sustainable building products
L'abstract è presente nell'allegato / the abstract is in the attachment
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SUPPLY CHAIN INNOVATIONS FOR DELIVERING SUSTAINABLE CONSTRUCTION IN UNITED KINGDOM
… on the innovative supply chain practices of the building products suppliers and therefore the sustainability of the UK construction Industry. In particular, sustainability continues to be an important thought for the UK construction industry materials/products suppliers. The study draws upon a …
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Stepping toward a smarter factory at Canam
… is a manufacturer of steel components and building products used in the construction industry. The company uses a distributed network of manufacturing centers throughout North America to build and ship joist and deck product to its customers. Each manufacturing center utilizes a similar set …
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The indirect architect : linking design services and mass-production to improve workforce housing
… their role in the development of prefabricated building technologies and workforce housing for the last century. Historically, the architectural profession has witnessed limited participation and a narrow impact on this building type. As mass-production increasingly becomes a viable means of …
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Open source building alliance ecology : the Internet framework for consumer driven participative design
… powerful tools for the development of innovative products in various industries (Von Hippel, 2006). Success stories in computer and clothing manufacturing signify that the adoption of Open Source practices may improve service standards and productivity (Clayton, 2001; Thomle & Von Hippel, 2002). …
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Up to the waist in mud! : the assessment and application of earth-derivative architecture in rural Bangladesh
… about architecture that uses earth as the prime· building material in the context of rural Bangladesh. In extreme environmental conditions of annual floods, rain and atmospheric humidity, the use of earth, the most readily available building material, faces serious constraints. Yet examples of …
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Die Bedeutung des Verlustfaktors bei der Bestimmung der Schalldämmung im Prüfstand
The sound insulation of buildings should be able to be forecasted by calculation early in the project stage. Therefore building elements are tested in acoustical transmission suites to determine their individual sound transmission. The manufactures are required to label the sound insulation values …
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Health Starts in the Home: An Assessment of Efforts to Improve Occupant Health through Healthy Building Materials in San Francisco’s Affordable Housing
… of this time is spent at home, surrounded by building materials that typically have added chemicals like flame retardants, highly fluorinated compounds, and antimicrobials. Recent research has linked these chemicals to adverse health outcomes such as asthma, endocrine disruption, cancer, …
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Energy Efficiency in Cold-Weather High-End Custom Homes
… builders haven't yet incorporated energy saving products and practices into homes. Many builders don't have the resources to evaluate available options and prefer to rely on the experiences of other builders. The purpose of this study was to create energy efficiency benchmarks for cold-weather, …
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Auralisation in building acoustics
… of airborne and impact sound insulation in buildings was developed, verified, and applied in several areas of research. After a short introduction to prediction methods for sound insulation in European countries, two methods for calculation of sound insulation in a two-room situation are …
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Modeling and analysis of commercial finished goods inventory
… most cost-effective solutions, but this requires building products to a forecast. The uncertainty induced by forecasts affects the inventory volumes necessary to achieve specified service levels. Inventory volume and its associated holding cost can be reduced through air transport, but this must …
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Benefit-Cost Analysis Of Using Class F Fly Ash-Based Green Cement In Masonry Units
… cement concrete is the most popularly used building material around the world. However, there are major drawbacks associated with Portland cement, such as the emission of greenhouse gasses and high-energy consumption from cement production. Therefore, Portland cement concrete has many …
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Identification of volatile organic compounds in the early stages of fire from commercial products
Building products, such as insulation materials, are ubiquitous in daily life, but there is a lack of published research on their thermal behaviour and volatiles released in the early stages of a fire. In both analytical and applied applications, knowledge about the chemical processes taking place …
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Leveraging Biomimicry and Additive Manufacturing to Improve Load Transfer in Brittle Materials
… this improvement in material efficiency to building products can lead to more sustainable and cost-effective construction practices. </p>
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Fundamental properties of borate-modified oriented strandboard manufactured from southern wood species
In the United States, damages to buildings from termites and decay fungi cost billions of dollars annually. As a result, there is an urgent need for building construction that will withstand the ravages of these biological pathogens. Chemical modification of building products is one of the …
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Creep behavior of natural fiber reinforced polymer composites
… application of this material as structural building products. Factors that influence creep behavior of the composites were investigated by analyzing creep curves of several different NFPC systems, which were designed for overall performance of the composites. Among different models, the …
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Effect of lining thermal inertia on small-scale compartment fire
… The current range of thermal inertia values for building products is much wider than those used in the regression by which the classical theory of pre-flashover temperature was derived (McCaffery et al. 1981). The range considered here is greater then has previously been considered by systematic …
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Research and design : the need for integration
… produced a myriad of new techniques, materials, building products and. processes, and a similar increase in societal demands. The abundance of knowledge necessary for successful intuitive design has overwhelmed the traditional methods of assimilation. The lack of an organized knowledge base and …
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