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Precast Concrete Lintels: The Ultimate Guide to Strength, Durability & Installation

UK Construction Blog

Compared to steel and timber alternatives, precast concrete lintels offer superior fire resistance (typically exceeding 4 hours), better thermal insulation properties, and greater resistance to environmental damage. Each type offers unique characteristics suited to specific applications in masonry support systems.

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Plumbing Challenges in High-Rise Construction: A Plumber’s View

CCR Magazine

However, behind the scenes, theres a network of intricate plumbing systems that keep everything running smoothly. For the top floors of a high-rise, this means a struggle to get the same water pressure that lower floors enjoy. This requires careful planning to ensure that each floors plumbing is properly aligned and connected.

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Fenestration and glazing: Seismic performance specification considerations

Construction Specifier

This has shifted the discussion from general safety to a building’s functionality, serviceability, and operation after an event and moved the attention from being on the structure to the building’s occupants. These include columns, joists, purlins, load-bearing walls, floor slabs, and foundations. billion annually.

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Transparent fire-rated design: Where safety meets student experience in campuses

Construction Specifier

Photos courtesy Technical Glass Products (TGP) When designing educational spaces, project teams must meet code-driven requirements such as accessibility and fire safety. Minimal colorless spaces in these butt-glazed, fire-rated assemblies provide a cohesive design aesthetic with the stairwell’s glass railings.

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ENR West Industry News | June 2025: Fast-Tracked LA High School Completed in Four Weeks

ENR Construction

Temporary partitions with sound stage style sound blankets were used create classrooms of varying sizes within the open floor plan. A new air-conditioning system was installed, and fire alarm and fire suppression systems were extended to meet code requirements. and design firm Gensler. and Nordic PCL Construction.

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NEW FIREFLY® FIRE COLLAR COMPLETES COMPARTMENTATION CAPABILITY FOR UK MANUFACTURER

Specification Product Update

The FIREFLY ® FCR Fire Collars feature the use of the in-house produced high-performance graphite which is housed in a corrosion resistant, powder coated steel sleeve: developed to deliver high volume expansion to exert a pressure seal on pipework penetrations.

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The Los Angeles County Museum of Art: Enormous Complexity Under a Veil of Simplicity

ENR Construction

These four buildings were taken down, but there wasn’t enough site area to get all the floor area on this portion. acre site, the museum features a single level exhibition floor that presents all art on the same level with no hierarchy. “I SOM joined in 2015. Had we waited, the project would today be 20-30% more expensive,” Vesga says.