Improve Facility Safety With Fit-for-Purpose Guardrails
Fit-for-purpose guardrails should be installed in all industrial facilities, especially in areas where there is forklift truck traffic.
How Low-Carbon Concrete Could Shape Sustainability in Construction
As a wide variety of industries explore sustainable improvements, many look to process changes to improve efficiency while cutting resource uses. Those alterations can help, but it's also necessary to do things differently regarding the materials used.
The Real-World Impact of Admixtures on Sustainability
Concrete admixtures can be used to reduce cement content, permit greater use of supplementary cementitious materials and increase resistance to the environment to extend the lifespan of structures—as well as affect a reduction in the CO2 emissions associated with concrete production.
Get on the Path to Healthy Buildings With LEED
The purpose of LEED certification is simple: It’s a mechanism for creating the best and healthiest built environments for occupants. With a little planning and a commitment to doing the right thing, builders will put themselves on the path to successfully reaching certification.
COVID-19 Response Will Usher in Much-Needed Change to Industrial Construction Sites
Industrial sites are, by their nature, non-public and specialist workplaces; with a focus on workplace safety, employees and contractors are voicing their concerns and asking for action to protect them against COVID-19.
Beyond the Numbers: Industrial Contractors Take Comprehensive Approach to Safety
Industrial contractors are certainly no slackers when it comes to safety but, lately, a seismic shift in thinking has occurred that could revolutionize the market.
How to Ensure Thermal Comfort in a Building
Engineers can run many simulations while observing the impact of different types of insulation increasing or lowering the supply flow rate, as well as modifying the supply temperature, to make sure thermal comfort is achieved in their designs.
Closing the Sustainability Gap in Construction
Globally, the construction industry fails in its efforts to improve sustainability when it comes to environment, labor and human rights, ethics and sustainable procurement practices.
