Performance

CM Perspective: It's Time to Insist on Innovation

Innovation is a word that is currently criticized in the business world for being over utilized. However, I would argue its actual application is being seriously underutilized in our own industry.

Kingspan Wins ‘Top Trusted Brand’ of Insulation Award

December 5, 2018

The latest Top Trusted Brands survey by Architecture & Design has once again named Kingspan Insulation as the Top Trusted Brand in Insulation.

Resources Available for Dealing With Mold

September 25, 2018

Framers, home builders, and homeowners looking for best practices to ensure they have the most current mold facts as well as mold mitigation and remediation information can now look to two new research reports created by the Structural Building Component Association (SBCA).

Your Door (and Wall) to Opportunity

Annandale Millwork is embracing the energy code.

Checklists for Mitigating and Remediating Mold on Wood Structural Building Components

The following checklists are to be used as a practical guide in conjunction with the information on mold provided in SBCA Research Report 1807-01: “Mold on Structural Building Components.”

Mold on Wood Structural Building Components

This research report seeks to provides fact-based information about causes, effects, and mitigation of mold growth on lumber and wood structural building components. 

Use of “L” Type Partition Intersections in Fire-Rated Assemblies

This research report evaluates the use of L-shaped partition intersections as an equivalent alternative to the Ushaped intersections typically shown in fire-resistive assembly evaluation reports.

Ramp It Up!

Trusses provide a cost-effective, responsive solution to concrete formwork.