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Designing Skylights with Google SketchUp - PODCAST
This is a three-part video podcast series that demonstrates how to design a skylight into a Google SketchUp model of a house; how to use the IDX Renditioner plugin for Google SketchUp to render realistic lighting into your skylight model; and how to present your final Google SketchUp model using Google LayOut.
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Cost-Effective Energy Savings with Drain Water Heat Recovery
Drain Water Heat Recovery Technologies have been widely designed into residential and commercial buildings in Canada and many other countries. This course shall provide you with a thorough understanding of how Drain Water Heat Recovery Systems work and how to include them in the design of homes, multi-residential buildings and many commercial buildings, including health care, restaurants, laundromats, and prisons. You shall also be provided with general guidelines of energy savings and budgetary costing for most of the more common applications. Furthermore, you shall have a understanding of the potential LEED® point contributions for most of these building types. After taking this course, you will have an intuitive sense about where and when to consider Drain Water Heat Recovery in your projects along with the value that it can provide.
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AEC Daily Bulletin - September 2010 |
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Events + Conferences |
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FREE ADMISSION TO MARMOMACC IN VERONA, ITALY
(WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 29 – SATURDAY, OCTOBER 2, 2010)
MARMOMACC, the leading international stone industry trade show, is offering free admission to trade visitors who pre-register online. By pre-registering before September 23rd visitors will be able to print your own entry badge, thereby saving over $40.
Visit www.marmomacc.com/freebadge2010 to register for a free four-day pass (one entry per day). When registering you will be prompted to insert an ID Code and a Control Code. Please use the following codes:
ID Code: 201003
Control Code: 292830
You will receive a confirmation e-mail that will allow you to print your pass. Just bring this printout to Marmomacc to avoid long lines at the entrance to the show.
There is a limit of a single registration per valid e-mail address provided. |
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New UniFormat Released!
This new edition of UniFormat harmonizes with CSI’s suite of standards and formats, including MasterFormat’s 50 divisions and the new PPDFormat, which guides the development of preliminary project descriptions. Keep your projects on budget, and organize your preliminary construction data so that it will serve you better later on. Use UniFormat! Learn more, or purchase.
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CSI and CSC Update OmniClassTM Tables
OmniClass is a means of organizing and retrieving information specifically designed for the construction industry. OmniClass is useful for many BIM applications, from organizing reports and object libraries to providing a way to roll up or drill down through data to get the information that meets your needs. OmniClass draws from other extant systems in use to form the basis of its tables wherever possible, such as MasterFormat™ for work results and UniFormat™ for elements. Learn more about the updates, or to obtain OmniClass tables, visit the OmniClass website, www.omniclass.org.
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October 8: Emerging Professionals Practice Group Meeting
CSI defines Emerging Professionals as those who have entered the design and construction industry in the past five years, and who are interested in career advancement though networking, continuing education, and leadership. Unlike many organizations that focus on one profession or one issue, CSI brings together designers, specifiers, contractors, owners, product reps and others, exposing members to many disciplines and career paths. The next meeting of the CSI Emerging Professionals Practice Group will focus on networking, and will be held by webinaron October 8 at noon ET. Learn more, or join now it’s free!
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October 19, 2-3pm ET: CSI Webinar: Specifying Soluble Salt Contamination Thresholds to Prevent Premature Coating Failures
Construction professionals have long relied on visual standards for quality control, but recent changes in VOC compliant coatings and the reduction of lead coatings means you need to address non-visible contaminants, called soluble salts, in your specifying, too. Industry surveys establish that nearly two-thirds of all coating failures are directly related to soluble salts, yet confusion about proper remediation still exists. After this session, you will understand how to; incorporate text and references into specifications to prevent premature coating failures on their projects; use best practices to reduce liability and the potential for construction claims based on QC failure; improve the contractor's understanding of your expectations. Learn more, or register now.
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November 19, 1 - 5:30pm: USGBC Education Provider Workshop: Incorporating LEED into Project Specifications
Understand the importance of specifications in documenting LEED requirements following CSI’s recommended practices and formats. The course explains the need for an integrated team approach to achieve LEED/sustainable goals on a project and the critical function of the specifier on that team. Attendees will learn how to find, evaluate and specify appropriate green products, materials, systems and construction procedures, and how to implement these specified techniques during the construction phase. All approved courses offered by USGBC Education Providers are approved for credit toward LEED Professional Credential Maintenance. Learn more, or register now. |
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CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS
The organisers of the UIA Tokyo 2011 congress (25-28 September 2011) invite architects, engineers, researchers and students from around the world to express their thoughts and ideas in relation to the congress theme DESIGN 2050 and its three sub-topics: environment, cultural exchange, life.
The academic programme will bring together theoretical research and real or imaginary project presentations related to the congress’ focus. This invitation represents a unique opportunity for designers to conceive and communicate their personal vision of ideal architecture and cities and predict the urban and architectural trends that will mould our world in 2050.
The deadline for submitting contribution abstracts is 31 October 2010. All the necessary information can be downloaded from the congress website at http://redirect.aecdaily.com/s18122/www.uia2011tokyo.com/en/callfor/ |
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