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March/April
2003
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Arthur O'Leary
Shop Drawings
Part 1 — Learning To Live With This “Necessary Evil”
To the construction industry, shop drawings seem to be a necessary evil. Contractors find them expensive to produce and architects find them unappealing to review. Both find them time-consuming and costly to administer. We seemingly cannot construct buildings without them; but they have become a perennial source of annoyance and confusion and more importantly, a significant source of professional liability claims against architects.
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Building Products Revue
Granitstone™ Metal Taken To A New Level
Within Rancho Cordova, Calif., is a neighborhood called Sunrise River. It is here that building owner Bob Hurdle of Hurdle Investments began designing his next series of office buildings and mini-warehouses. He was looking for a pre-finished, insulated panel.
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EchoSorb® Acoustical Panels Solve Noise Problem For School District
Buena Regional School District in Buena, New Jersey was in desperate need of a solution for a noise problem in a middle school gym in the district. Daniel Dandrea, the Facilities Manager for the District was looking for an affordable solution that was uncomplicated and straightforward and that could be installed by employees of their school district at the Cleary Middle School.
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HCE Uses Efficiency Expertise To Help Recycle And Reshape AWT Building
The 38,500-square-foot Clark County Sanitation District Advanced Wastewater Treatment (AWT) Laboratory was designed to meet the current needs of the rapidly growing communities it serves, and to provide today’s water testing requirements as well as the progressive future testing requirements of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
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DCD Insights
DCD Magazine To Open Its Archives To Subscribers
Starting in May 2003, the NHBCdb will be accessible online by subscribers 24/7 at DCD.COM. All features that are available in DCD magazine will be available online — including the ability to cost escalate and to adjust for local conditions. The use of the database will be free to paid subscribers. (Trial subscriptions and/or those receiving complimentary promotional copies will not have access to the online database).
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| Case Studies Case Studies Archive |
File: Commercial
• Pierce
R.V. & Modular Homes
Billings, Montana
File: Civic
• Fort Smith Public Library
Fort Smith, Arkansas
• Grandville Police & Court Facility
Grandville, Michigan
File: Educational
• Oakridge High School
Muskegon, Michigan
• Edna Bigham Mays Elementary School
Troy, Texas
• Laurens County Higher Education Center
Clinton, South Carolina
File: Medical
• Johns Hopkins at White Marsh (Phase 1)
White Marsh, Maryland
• Cancer Treatment Center at Union General Hospital
Blairsville, Georgia
File: Office
• Rio San Diego Plaza
San Diego, California
File: Recreational
• Ray’s Splash Planet
Charlotte, North Carolina
• YMCA Northwest Family Branch
Austin, Texas
File: Religious
• Grace Church
Des Moines, Iowa
• Christian Renewal Center
Dickinson, Texas |
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