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Building Knowledge and Connections AEC Daily offers the following Online Continuing Education courses at our Online Learning Center. These courses are available 24 hours/day, 7 days/week, and are registered with AIA, GBCI, IDCEC and many more organizations. Inside this Edition:
Kohler Co. | Alumi-Guard, Inc. | Ohio Gratings Inc. | DaVinci Roofscapes | Total Door | Woodtone | Engineered Plastics Inc. | Maxstone International, LLC | Morton Buildings | United Plastics Corporation | Partner Events | Subscription Info 
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Kohler Co. |
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The KOHLER family of businesses extends far beyond the kitchen and bath, to collectively offer the finest in furniture and accessories, cabinetry and tile, engines and generators, as well as resort, recreation, and real estate opportunities. |
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Alumi-Guard, Inc. |
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Alumi-Guard is a leading manufacturer of quality aluminum fence and rail products. Since it was established in 2000 Alumi-Guard has earned a reputation as an industry leader through innovation, expert craftsmanship and unsurpassed customer service. |
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Coating of Aluminum Extrusions |
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Provides an overview of aluminum extrusion coatings and includes discussions on the aluminum extrusion process; a comparison of powder and liquid coatings; an overview of the chrome and the chrome-free pretreatment processes; and, the performance objectives of AAMA testing standards.
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Ohio Gratings Inc. |
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As a bar grating manufacturer since 1970, Ohio Gratings, Inc. has made just one top quality product... bar grating. This single focus has allowed us to gain the expertise and respect that has defined us as a market leader in the aluminum and steel bar grating market. |
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DaVinci Roofscapes |
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DaVinci Roofscapes, based in Kansas City, Kansas, has been manufacturing award-winning synthetic slate and shake roofing since 1999. DaVinci’s revolutionary polymer shingles offer homeowners and contractors the authentic colors and natural textures of quarried slate or rough-hewn cedar shake. |
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The FRESH Approach to Choosing Exterior Colors |
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Provides an overview of the FRESH approach; a strategic method used for the selection of colors for the exterior of buildings. The course focuses on both residential and commercial design considerations, and details the steps to follow in the color selection process to achieve a harmonious design.
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Total Door |
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Total Door™ is your solution for the replacement of older doors, renovation projects, and new construction. Total Doors reduce maintenance and offer exceptional security and abuse resistance by using a full height, semi-concealed hinge and a full height locking channel in a system that comes fully assembled from the factory. |
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Woodtone |
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Let Woodtone provide a complete exterior coating solution for your next project. We are experts at coating exterior building materials and have been doing it for 30 years. From semi-transparent to solid stains, from wood substrates to composite products to decking and fencing, builders and contractors continue to entrust Woodtone as a key component of their exterior painting process. |
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Engineered Plastics Inc. |
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Armor-Tile offers the largest selection of ADA tactile system products for transit platforms, multi-modal transit centers, curb ramps, stairwells, escalator approaches, pedestrian crossings, parking areas, reflecting pools, and building entrances. |
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Maxstone International, LLC |
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Maxstone International, LLC - a Member of AIA Memphis, TN - has been distributing solid surface materials - and more - since 1996. The Company began as a fabricator that used Corian® and similar materials to produce countertops and vanity tops in the Memphis area. Subsequently, Maxstone became a regional distributor for Meganite®, a 100% acrylic solid surface material that compares favorably to Corian®. |
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Morton Buildings |
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Morton Buildings is America’s leader in custom post-frame construction. Morton constructs a wide variety of commercial projects in all sizes and styles, including retail facilities, warehouses, office buildings, storage buildings, restaurants, banks and veterinary facilities. |
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United Plastics Corporation |
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United Plastics Corporation serves the world with extrusion, dual extrusion, and tri-extrusion, in interior and exterior grade compounds. Our materials include PVC, polypropylene, polystyrene, polyethylene, rigid foam, santoprene, and Rigid and Flexible Plastic Extrusionmore. Our custom compounding and full in-house die capabilities allow a variety of durometers engineered to your precise specifications. We also offer in-line and/or secondary operations, including minor assembly, welding, and punching. |
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Partner Events
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Free Admission to MARMOMACC in Verona, Italy
(Wednesday, September 30 – Saturday, October 3, 2015) |
MARMOMACC, the leading international stone industry trade show, is offering free online pre-registration to selected trade visitors. By pre-registering, visitors will be able to print their own free four-day pass (one entry per day) and avoid lines to purchase admission to the show.
To receive your personalized code to use to pre-register, please email Marmomacc’s North American representative Sebastiano Brancoli (sbrancoli@sbdcllc.com) and provide a brief company description to confirm your eligibility.
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Building Knowledge and Connections AEC Daily offers the following Online Continuing Education courses at our Online Learning Center. These courses are available 24 hours/day, 7 days/week, and are registered with AIA, GBCI, IDCEC and many more organizations. Inside this Edition:
Unilock | Richards-Wilcox, Inc. | Benjamin Moore & Co. | McNICHOLS Company | Quanex Building Products Company | Overhead Door Corporation | Ametco Manufacturing Corporation | Sinak Corporation | Azon | PAC International, Inc. | Subscription Info
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Unilock |
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Designers and architects trust Unilock paving stones and retaining walls to achieve their vision without having to compromise either creative design or long-term performance. Unilock has a wide range of exclusive textures, styles and colors, and an extensive array of customizable solutions, combined with the most advanced technologies in the industry, delivering exceptional strength, resilience and beauty. We introduced pavers to North America and continue to lead the style and technology trends in the hardscape industry. |
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Richards-Wilcox, Inc. |
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Since 1880, Richards-Wilcox has been the leading manufacturer of hardware and door accessories for slide, swing, and slide-fold doors used in zoos, aquariums, barns, stables, contemporary buildings and historic buildings, too. Commercial, industrial, and residential settings nationwide feature Richards-Wilcox hardware products. Richards-Wilcox also provides custom design services, partnering with architects and designers to create unique door hardware. |
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Specialty Door Hardware |
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Provides an overview of specialty door hardware with a focus on the specific components that make up this category, including a discussion on applying specialty door hardware to specific projects.
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Benjamin Moore & Co. |
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Benjamin Moore & Co. continues to develop and produce new paint products, such as EcoSpec, a solvent-free, low odor, low VOC, water-thinnable coating system that utilizes our own advanced materials technology. |
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Color and Light |
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Provides an overview of the properties of color and light. The program includes discussions on types of lighting, metamerism, Color Rendering Index (CRI), and Light Reflectance Value (LRV) and how they affect design choices.
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McNICHOLS Company |
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McNICHOLS Company has 18 locations throughout North America, all specializing in products with holes in them. Products, such as Perforated Metal, Wire Mesh and Expanded Metal, are distinct yet have similar properties like an open area. In addition, McNICHOLS carries all types and styles of Bar, Plank and Safety Gratings; Stair Treads; Handrail Components; and Fiberglass Grating and Structural Components. |
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Quanex Building Products Company |
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Quanex Building Products Company combines high-quality materials with precision craftsmanship to offer customers a broad range of wood products. The two facilities located in Wisconsin focus on wood mouldings and engineered flooring. Available in 25 different wood species and over 300 profiles, Quanex provides lumberyards, distributors, and OEM partners with a wide range of options to create specific aesthetic and functional designs for new construction and renovation projects. |
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Overhead Door Corporation |
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Overhead Door Corporation pioneered the upward-acting door industry, inventing the first upward-acting door in 1921 and the first electric door opener in 1926. Today, we continue to be the industry leader through the strength of our product innovation, superior craftsmanship and outstanding customer support, underscoring a legacy of quality, expertise and integrity. |
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Ametco Manufacturing Corporation |
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Ametco manufactures a variety of products that can be utilized by creative designers as functional items to conceal and protect. From our in house manufacturing facility, Ametco can offer you perforated materials from plastics to decorative ornamental materials in all types of metals. Our line of fencing and gates can be manufactured in both high concealing decorative louvers or ultra secure open grilles. |
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Sinak Corporation |
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Manufacturer of products for waterproofing, preservation and protection of concrete and masonry. |
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Azon |
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Azon is the global leader in developing intelligent technology for the manufacture of thermal barrier aluminum fenestration, commonly referred to as the pour and debridge method. |
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PAC International, Inc. |
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PAC International, Inc. is the “industry leader” in World Class, Noise Control Solutions for buildings. |
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Building Knowledge and Connections AEC Daily offers the following Online Continuing Education courses at our Online Learning Center. These courses are available 24 hours/day, 7 days/week, and are registered with AIA, GBCI, IDCEC and many more organizations. Inside this Edition:
iSPAN Systems LP | Plasti-Fab Ltd. | Endura Grease Management | Global Environmental Manufacturing (G.E.M.) Inc. | Christie Digital Systems | Phantom Screens | AS Hanging Systems | Metrie | Napoleon Fireplaces & Grills | Xypex Chemical Corporation | Subscription Info
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iSPAN Systems LP |
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TotalJoist is a light gauge steel floor joist designed, manufactured, and distributed exclusively by iSPAN Systems LP, as a response to the challenges and limitations currently faced by those in the Multi-Residential construction industry using engineered wood and precast floors. |
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Plasti-Fab Ltd. |
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Plasti-Fab has been providing customers with innovative expanded polystyrene (EPS) product solutions for commercial, residential and geotechnical engineered applications throughout North America for over thirty years. |
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EPS Product Solutions |
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Provides an overview of EPS insulation, EPS Geofoam and ICF/SIP building system solutions produced using sustainable EPS manufacturing processes. Applicable material properties, product standards and code references are provided.
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Endura Grease Management |
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As one of the brands of Canplas, Endura has been associated with our successful line of Grease Interceptors and related products since 2002. Canplas sells Endura products worldwide, actively growing the product line to include Solids Interceptor solutions, a lo-profile interceptor and additional operational capacities. |
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Global Environmental Manufacturing (G.E.M.) Inc. |
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Global Environmental Manufacturing (G.E.M.) Inc., the manufacturer of Euroshield® Recycled Rubber Roofing Products, was founded in 1999 by Mr. Henry Kamphuis in response to the overwhelming problem of what to do with the deluge of old tires clogging up landfills and dumpsites. Years of research has resulted in the creation of the extremely durable, and great looking environmentally friendly green roofing systems. |
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Christie Digital Systems |
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A World Leader in Visual Solutions for World-Class Organizations Christie a global visual technologies company, offers diverse solutions for business, entertainment, and industry. With expertise in film projection since 1929 and professional projection systems since 1979, we've established a reputation as the world’s single source manufacturer of a variety of display technologies and solutions for cinema, large audience environments, control rooms, business presentations, training facilities, 3D and virtual reality, simulation, education, media and government. As a market leader, Christie has installed over 100,000 projection solutions worldwide. |
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Phantom Screens |
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North America’s leading provider of retractable screens, Phantom Screens® offers insect protection, solar shading and enhanced privacy for doorways, windows, and large openings such as patios, verandas, and lanais. |
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AS Hanging Systems |
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The company has been active in the area of art and art display since 1964, and a manufacturer and distributor of hanging systems for more than two decades, having completed over 20,000 installations in North America. The breadth of product lines, quality of solutions, and professional service enables the company to continue leadership in providing unique hardware support for art and object hanging to a vast variety of business categories and institutions including museums, art galleries, custom framing enterprises, universities, libraries, commercial office buildings, hospitality and health care markets. |
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Wall Hanging Systems |
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Provides an overview of wall hanging systems with a focus on integrating systems in the overall design of a project and includes discussions on system elements, selection criteria, specialty applications, and sustainable design.
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Metrie |
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Since 1926, Metrie has helped transform spaces with exquisitely crafted architectural trim. Today, we offer something you can’t find anywhere else: complete Collections of interior finishings, from crowns to Ikons™ and architraves, to interior doors — each element perfectly coordinated and flawlessly proportioned. |
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Napoleon Fireplaces & Grills |
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Napoleon® is an ISO9001 - 2008 registered company and operates with 500,000+ square feet of manufacturing space and over 400 employees. We are North America's largest privately owned manufacturer of quality wood and gas fireplaces (inserts and stoves), gourmet gas and charcoal grills, outdoor living products and waterfalls. |
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Xypex Chemical Corporation |
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Developer and manufacturer of Xypex Crystalline Technology for waterproofing and repairing concrete. |
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Concrete Waterproofing with Crystalline Technology |
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Provides an overview of how crystalline waterproofing technology provides a high level of performance to concrete structures and what design professionals need to know in order to specify and understand how this chemical technology can improve building projects, cut costs and help earn LEED® credits.
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Building Knowledge and Connections AEC Daily offers the following Online Continuing Education courses at our Online Learning Center. These courses are available 24 hours/day, 7 days/week, and are registered with AIA, GBCI, IDCEC and many more organizations. Inside this Edition:
Warmboard, Inc. | Excel Dryer | Benjamin Moore & Co. | Residential Elevators, Inc. | Adhesives Technology Corp. | Royal Building Products | Hycrete, Inc. | Panda Windows and Doors | DECRA Roofing Systems | Overhead Door Corporation | Subscription Info
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Warmboard, Inc. |
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Warmboard, Inc. is dedicated to creating luxurious comfort using smart, energy-efficient technology. Our company manufacturers radiant panels in the United States of America using recycled aluminum and sustainable forestry products from the US and Canada. Warmboard, Inc. has been honored with a “Best Green Building Product†by a variety of organizations every year since 2005. |
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Excel Dryer |
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Excel Dryer is a family-owned and operated small business that has been manufacturing the finest American made hand dryers for over 50 years and the only ones that are Made In USA Certified®, featuring the XLERATOR® hand dryer models. |
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NEXT GENERATION GREEN RESTROOM DESIGN v2 |
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Provides an overview of how sustainable restroom design can address the global concerns of water shortages and the impacts of the building sector on our environment. This program identifies the newest technologies in high-efficiency restroom fixtures including how to choose water-saving products and the practical, economic, and environmental benefits of high-speed, energy-efficient hand dryers versus paper towels. Also included is an in-depth analysis of how these products earn points toward LEED® v4 credits and other green building standards to comply with new, best practices in green building.
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Benjamin Moore & Co. |
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Benjamin Moore & Co. continues to develop and produce new paint products, such as EcoSpec, a solvent-free, low odor, low VOC, water-thinnable coating system that utilizes our own advanced materials technology. |
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LEED v4: Paint and Coatings |
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Provides an overview of the new LEED v4 BD+C New Construction credits to which paints and coatings may apply. It reviews credit intents, explains credit requirements and describes where to find materials to meet the needs of the credits.
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Residential Elevators, Inc. |
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"Elevating your standard of living." For 20 years Residential Elevators, Inc. has provided quality products and service to the home elevator industry. Our new "Horizon" (machine room-less) home elevator model has solidified REI's position in the home elevator market. By using less space, with the same quality materials and skilled craftsmanship as our Luxury Lift (Hydraulic) models, we ensure our ability to make our customers visions a reality. Offices nationally, as well as online services via: www.ResidentialElevators.com. |
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Adhesives Technology Corp. |
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Adhesives Technology Corporation (ATC) is a leading manufacturer of construction and industry related adhesives in epoxies, urethanes, acrylics, ester blends and polyureas. With over forty-five years of field proven experience, our product brands like Ultrabond®, MiracleBond®, CrackBond®, The Cracker® and Hard-Rok, are some of the most recognized and most often specified products in all of North America. |
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Royal Building Products |
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Royal Building Products is one of the world's leading manufacturers of premium performance siding and roofing products. Royal's commitment towards state-of-the-art manufacturing technology and facilities has resulted in the most durable solid vinyl siding and roofing products in today's market. Royal's commitment towards quality is demonstrated in its Double Lifetime Coverage and Exclusive Dura Color Protection which represents the best warranty in the business. |
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Hycrete, Inc. |
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Hycrete products make concrete waterproof, by reducing absorption of water and dissolved salts into the concrete and by forming a protective layer over reinforcing steel. |
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Panda Windows and Doors |
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Options are the key to custom sliding & folding glass door systems, and Panda offers the best of them. Through a wide range of customization options, we make sure your dream design, whether commercial or residential, can be executed just the way you have imagined it. During the early stages, our team of expert designers will work closely with you to adapt your design vision to the required functionality and government compliances. Panda assists you in the entire process and creates products that respond to those specific requirements. |
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Sustainable Solutions for Large Openings |
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Provides an overview of large opening glass wall systems, their LEED® contributions, and how they lend themselves to sustainable design. The course focuses on: their benefits and applications; door types; door system components; and, selection and installation considerations.
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DECRA Roofing Systems |
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As the original stone coated steel roofing system, the DECRA product line represents a perfect blending of almost 50 years of research and practical experience. With four profiles to choose from – Tile, Shake, Shingle Plus and Shingle – DECRA is sure to have a product that meets your design needs. |
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Overhead Door Corporation |
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Overhead Door Corporation pioneered the upward-acting door industry, inventing the first upward-acting door in 1921 and the first electric door opener in 1926. Today, we continue to be the industry leader through the strength of our product innovation, superior craftsmanship and outstanding customer support, underscoring a legacy of quality, expertise and integrity. |
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