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The Fenestration and Glazing Industry Alliance (FGIA) updated a document serving a recommended practice for determining test methodology for laboratory and field testing of exterior wall systems. The document pertains to products covered by an AAMA standard such as curtain walls, storefronts, window walls, and sloped glazing. AAMA 501-24, Methods of Test for Exterior Walls was last updated in 2015.
BD+C editors are now accepting submissions for the annual 75 Top Building Products awards. The winners will be featured in the November/December 2024 issue of Building Design+Construction.
BD+C Editors break down March's top 15 building products, from multifamily-focused electronic locks to recyclable plastic panels.
Renovation of the two properties, with 200 apartments for seniors, was financed through a special public/private arrangement.
Horizontally installed IMPs require a healthy amount of coordination with the project’s design team.
Iconsiam’s completion required special glass and installation techniques.
The building products giant gauges its employees’ perceptions of old and new headquarters environments.
Five colors of metal wall panels highlight design of multigenerational learning center.
The building will rise three stories in Miami’s Design District.
A luxury Baltimore hotel, a mixed-use building in Denver and an Alaskan High School may also have used the cladding.
The observatory’s pattern of lock-seamed zinc cladding alternates between the irregular site topography and the building’s geometry.
Following severe hailstorm damage, this Sandusky, Ohio, community replaces its high-maintenance cedar siding with a composite solution.
Blackney Hayes Architects undertook a project to restore and modernize an existing mid-rise building on Chestnut Street, located near Thomas Jefferson University, and turn it into an expansive mixed-use space.
