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HEARTH AND HOME
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Hearth & Home Technologies Sponsors Free Continuing Education |
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Hearth & Home Technologies offers the following FREE on-line continuing education course at AEC Daily's Online Learning Center. This course is available 24 hours/day, 7 days/week, and is registered with AIA, CSI, and many more organizations. |
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The Heart of the Home: Specifying Today's Gas Fireplaces
Provides an overview of today's factory-built gas fireplaces, including terminology, fireplace types, specialty fireplace options, design considerations, venting parameters, selection criteria, and key specification issues. CLICK HERE TO VIEW THIS COURSE |
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Hearth & Home Technologiestm is the world's leading producer and installer of hearth products. Together, the Hearth & Home Technologies family of brands offers a product line unsurpassed in its breadth, including a full array of gas, electric, and wood burning fireplaces, inserts, stoves, grills, mantels and more. Our Heatilator and Heat-N-Glo brands are the strongest in the industry, and our products are designed to incorporate the very latest in materials and technology.
As a company, Hearth & Home Technologies is driven by a burning commitment to quality, function and reliability. That dedication explains why our brands are not only the most well known, but also the most preferred by builders and homeowners alike.
Driving the growth of our brands have been two simple but timeless questions: How can we add comfort and convenience to the home? How can we create a safer, healthier environment within the home? Our answers, in the form of innovative products and features, have set increasingly high industry standards and opened new markets.
For more information on Hearth & Home Technologiestm, please visit www.fireplaces.com. |
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BR-111
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BR-111 Sponsors Free Continuing Education |
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BR-111 offers the following FREE on-line continuing education course at AEC Daily's Online Learning Center. This course is available 24 hours/day, 7 days/week, and is registered with AIA, CSI, and many more organizations. |
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Exotic Hardwood Flooring Solutions
Provides an overview of solid and engineered exotic hardwood flooring systems including fabrication, features, styles, as well as a discussion on installation methods and considerations to facilitate a successful installation. CLICK HERE TO VIEW THIS COURSE |
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For 20 years, BR-111™ has been a leader in the exotic hardwood flooring arena, providing products that are recognized for their beauty, performance and overall value. Exciting new species and innovative products, ranging from prefinished solids to engineered flooring, are researched and developed annually in an on-going effort to achieve the ultimate level of quality and excellence.
More than 25 exotic hardwood flooring species are represented in nine different product categories. BR-111™ flooring is kiln dried, precision milled and prefinished to exacting standards using the industry’s most up-to-date manufacturing technology.
As the nation's largest supplier of exotic hardwood flooring, BR-111™ partners with 11 of the nation's leading distributors and 4,000 retailers nationwide. Their newest endeavor is their Designer Showroom located at 4105 Ponce de Leon Blvd. in Coral Gables, Florida which offers designers and architects personalized service with their projects and large sample displays.
BR-111 is also proud to be certified by the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC), CARB compliant, and complaisant with the amendments of the U.S. Lacey Act.
For more information on BR-111, please visit http://redirect.aecdaily.com/s18122/www.br111.com.
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While your mind is trained to envision thousands of square feet in unison, focus it for a moment on a more microscopic level; a single square foot. Approximate numbers lead one to a simple math. That for every square foot of floor space you design there are multiples of that in wall space your reputation hangs upon. The constant threat to your design is moisture. A natural attribute of a living, breathing and functioning building.
While some architects take up the sword and fight at managing moisture, others have decided on a more sensible approach. They’re forgiving moisture, thanks to Georgia-Pacific fiberglass mat technology. The Dens™ family of gypsum products compensates for moisture in your exterior sheathing, interior walls, shafts, tile and even roof assemblies. That means with the stroke of your specifying pen you reduce risks in a cascading fashion. For building owners, risks are reduced in possible mold remediation. For GC’s, they can allow Dens products to be exposed to the elements during construction. They can also hang interior walls before drying-in in the name of efficiency. For you, risks are reduced, because you specified a proven leader with an enviable track record in all types of buildings around the world instead of pinning your reputation on an unproven newcomer. Now, take that square foot, add the benefits mentioned and multiply them out. That’s Dens solutions. Only from Georgia-Pacific.
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SMART VENT
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SMART VENT Sponsors Free Continuing Education |
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SMART VENT offers the following FREE online continuing education course at AEC Daily’s Online Learning Center. This course is available 24 hours/day, 7 days/week, and is certified by AIA, CSI, and many more organizations. |
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Understanding Engineered Foundation Flood Vents
Provides an overview of the importance of specifying proper foundation flood venting and compliance with NFIP standards to effectively prevent major damage to buildings due to floods and hurricanes. Engineered and non-engineered foundation flood vents are discussed. CLICK HERE TO VIEW THIS COURSE |
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SMART VENT Certified Automatic Foundation Flood Vents
Each 16” x 8” SMART VENT is certified to provide 200 sq/ft of flood protection for an enclosed area. SMART VENT products are code compliant, FEMA accepted, and ICC-ES Evaluated. We have various models of vents including dual-function (flood protection + air ventilation), insulated, wood wall, overhead door, combination/industrial models as well as Pour-in-Place Buck systems and accessories including interior sleeve & trim kits, UL-certified fire dampers, rain shields, etc.
SMART VENT preserves the aesthetic beauty of a home by requiring 2/3 less vents.
Annual NFIP Flood insurance premiums are greatly impacted by flood venting placement and size. Our trained technical staff of Certified Floodplain Managers will review your foundation design for optimum vent placement. This could save the homeowner a significant amount of money per year in flood insurance premiums.
The all stainless steel construction meets or exceeds flood and corrosion resistance code requirements. The SMART VENT door is latched closed until flood water enters. Flood water lifts the internal floats which unlatches and rotates the door open inside the frame. This allows the flood water to automatically enter and exit through the frame opening, relieving the pressure from the foundation walls. The louvers are not relied on to let the water in and out. They are for ventilation only. Regardless of the louvers’ position, opened or closed, when flood water flows into the door, the internal floats release the door to rotate open to relieve the hydrostatic pressure. The louvers and pest screen are rotated out of the path of the flood water. No electricity is required.
SMART VENT Foundation Flood Vents, was voted winner of the prestigious ‘Most Innovative Product Award’ by attendees of the World of Concrete Show, ‘Top 100 Products Honors’ and MVP Award from Building Products magazine, and a recently featured product on ABC’s Extreme Makeover: Home Edition.
For more information go to www.smartvent.com or call 877-441-8368.
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