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Green Building Insulation:
The Environmental Benefits
 

To meet green building standards for better thermal and energy performance from sustainable, environmentally friendly building materials, more projects employ new state-of-the-art advanced closed-cell foam insulation solutions, which provide significant benefits while contributing to green building performance and LEED certifications.

 
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HILTI
Hilti Sponsors Free Continuing Education
Hilti offers the following FREE on-line continuing education courses at AEC Daily's Online Learning Center. These courses are available 24 hours/day, 7 days/week, and are certified by AIA, CSI, and many more organizations.
Profiles and Installations of Stone Coated Steel Roofing Anchor Systems for Concrete and Masonry Applications

Provides an overview of mechanical and adhesive anchoring systems for concrete and masonry including anchor theory as well as a discussion on the major determinants of anchor performance.
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Profiles and Installations of Stone Coated Steel Roofing Firestop: A Life Safety Issue

Provides an overview of fire safe building construction, how to provide proper firestop protection via model building codes, and specifications. Proper and improper firestop installations, liability issues, and types of fire/smoke assemblies are also reviewed.
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Hilti is a world-leading manufacturer and supplier of quality, innovative and specialized tools and fastening systems for the professional user. With more than 850 highly trained Hilti account managers and engineers throughout North America and an additional 1,300 Hilti employees nationwide, Hilti expertise covers the areas of powder-actuated fastening, drilling and demolition, diamond coring and cutting, measuring, firestopping, screw fastening, adhesive and mechanical anchoring, and strut and hanger systems.

For more information on Hilti, please visit www.hilti.com.

 



FORMICA
Formica Sponsors Free Continuing Education
Formica 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 certified by AIA, CSI, and many more organizations.
Profiles and Installations of Stone Coated Steel Roofing Specifying Solid Surfacing Materials

Provides an overview of solid surfacing including its features, benefits, applications, manufacturing and fabrication processes including discussions on design and specification considerations.
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Colorful laminates represent the first brilliant chapter in the life of Formica Corporation. Past, present and future, the story of Formica is one of continuous innovation. It is a chronicle of advances in technology, new products, and performance enhancements. The debut of fresh colors, patterns and finishes that mirror changing tastes and lifestyles. And an array of new products that set ever-higher standards for design, technology and quality over a range of price points. Today, Formica offers countless possibilities for inspired design in residential, corporate, hospitality, health care and many other environments. From countertops and cabinets to sinks and doors, Formica Corporation is perfectly suited to achieve the look and performance you desire.

Laminate: Formica® brand laminates are available in an exciting selection of colors, patterns and textures. Perfect for vertical and horizontal surfaces where high style and high performance are in demand.

Solid Surfacing: Formica® Solid Surfacing is ultra-smooth and ultra-versatile. Formica Solid Surfacing is made from a single homogenous material so color and pattern are continuous from top to bottom. It’s stain resistant, and easy to care for, even with heavy use.

Quartz Surfacing: Formica® Stone natural quartz surfacing provides high-end results and top-shelf performance. Unlike real stone, Formica Stone is nonporous, making it resistant to stains, chemicals and scratches.

Wood Surfacing: Formica® Veneer premium wood surfacing takes the beauty of the forest and makes it flexible and unique. Made from natural woods, Formica Veneer offers more patterns, shapes and colors than Mother Nature herself and is designed to coordinate with other Formica brand surfaces.

Decorative Metal: Formica DecoMetal® boldly brings Formica brand products into the design future. Modern designs can glimmer with the luxurious glow of gold, brass, zinc, copper, aluminum and steel.

For more information on Formica, please visit www.formica.com.

 



CAST STONE INSTITUTE
Cast Stone Sponsors Free Continuing Education
Cast Stone 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 certified by AIA, CSI, and many more organizations.
Profiles and Installations of Stone Coated Steel Roofing Meeting Architectural Challenges with Cast Stone

Provides an overview of cast stone production; how it differs from associated materials; how it is used as a material that by size, shape, color and finish is aesthetically appealing. The various applications of cast stone for residential, commercial, municipal, educational and other uses are also reviewed.
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The Cast Stone Institute®, founded in 1927, is an organization of certified Cast Stone Manufacturers and related professionals committed to developing standards and promoting the use of cast stone. Today our mission remains, not only to be the authoritative spokesperson for Cast Stone, but also to provide expert counsel to the architectural and engineering communities.

Cast Stone is a masonry product that provides ornamental or functional features to buildings and other structures. Cast Stone is made from fine and coarse aggregates, Portland cement, mineral oxide color pigments, chemical admixtures and water. Not surprising then, Cast Stone products are available in virtually any color, and will give the appearance of a variety of natural building stones including but not limited to limestone, granite, slate, travertine or marble. Applications for Cast Stone range from the simplest windowsills to the most complicated architectural elements. Properly manufactured, Cast Stone has the same or stronger physical properties as most dimensional building stone. Properly selected and installed, Cast Stone can result in an architectural project of enduring beauty to be enjoyed for decades.

Members of the Cast Stone Institute® are engaged in the relentless pursuit of excellence in manufacturing. Prior to admission, each potential producer member must submit to a rigorous examination of product quality, safety, testing and meticulous record keeping and must also undergo the recertification process every two years. The results of this include consistently high product quality and the assurance that Cast Stone Institute® members are “on the job” keeping Cast Stone a premier building material.

For more information on The Cast Stone Institute®, please visit www.caststone.org.

 

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