Western Specialty Contractors Architectural Sheet Metal Branch 123 in Kansas City, KS recently completed fabrication and installation of custom-colored Aluminum Composite Metal wall panels on the new Lawrence Memorial Health West in Lawrence, Kan.
The facility, which is designed to serve the broader community as much as its own employees, uses its metal roof as a calling card, because nothing says “natural gas utility” more obviously than 13,500 square-feet of metal panels finished in gas-flame blue.
Christin Kappel, Green Programs Director for Energy Diagnostics, touches base on green multifamily building and where we currently stand on the Path to Zero. Join in as we learn more about these certifications and how Christin goes about conducting these analyses to help build more efficient buildings.
Pursuing Seattle's aggressive Living Building Pilot Program certification, the sleek new 7-story Watershed mixed-use building features high-performance glazing, red-list-compliant products, enhanced indoor air quality and rainwater reuse.
Building Enclosure’s Editor, Lindsay Lewis, sits down with Daniel Overbey, the Director of Sustainability for Browning Day, to discuss a hot topic as of late: embodied carbon.
7 Cedars Resort Properties recently completed construction of a $33 million, 100-room hotel adjacent to S’Klallam Tribe’s 7 Cedars Casino on Washington’s Olympic Peninsula.
In the building enclosure industry, a structural glass wall is mostly transparent and can be designed with minimal structural elements, except for the glass.
The primary function of a wall system is to act as an environment separator, or in other words to keep the outside out and the inside in; this has not changed significantly over the past 50 years.
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