Don't underestimate the impact of long hours in the sun without adequate hydration and sunscreen; heatstroke and skin cancer are serious risks. Furthermore, working with building materials can expose you to harmful dust and chemicals. Respiratory problems are a real concern, and without the right...
in order to comply with U.S. export controls and sanctions. The two chips, HL-328 and HL-388, are scheduled for launch in June and September, respectively, according to a white paper on the company’s website dated April 12. Tech outlet The Register first reported the plans from the w...
I have a lot of materials (straw bales & lumber) stored under the house right now so it looks ugly underneath. Those will all be gone by fall. Also I haven't finished weaving the rope to put under the railing (although the kids prefer it without the rope, so they can sit on the ...
Cigarettes, cigars, and other smoking materials can pose a significant fire risk if not handled properly. Carelessly discarded cigarette butts or ashes can easily ignite flammable materials such as upholstery or dry leaves. In fact, according to the National Fire Protection Association (NFPA), smokin...
Try it, when you are left in an empty airport after hours, like I sometimes am. The interiors spaces are huge and their significant volume exacerbates reverberation times. They could be designed for sound attenuation by choice of interior materials, but again they seldom are. The choice is ty...
A major theme with our selection of materials and finishes was picking things that would be low or no maintenance, we felt this was especially important given waterfront exposure of the home. Early on we latched on to the idea of using a fiber-cement cladding called Cembonit (now calledCemb...
we would remove the damp-affected, crumbly and salt-saturated render and plaster to a level about 300mm above the "high-tide-mark" of the salt damp. If any other restoration is needed, we would remove fretting bricks, stones and mortar and replace these with matching materials, to blend ...
We think it's just a less scary name that some folks like to use. Indoor samples that contain molds that are not believed to not grow on building materials are thus unlikely to point to a problem. Other indoor molds, including some of the Basidiomycetes, are water and rot indicators. ...
[5]. To make better use of the thermal energy, some scientific publications have studied the thermal demand under different weather conditions, applying new approaches such as the inclusion in the walls of encapsulated phase change materials (PCMs), cellulose, expanded polystyrene or vegetation as ...
This method can obtain an energy model of the building and its subsequent analysis, which is called the sixth dimension of BIM, or BIM 6D, in which information from previous dimensions is used, mainly the definitions of geometry, building materials, and equipment [24]. Through this energy ...