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“Dry” wooden house



wooden-house

Jim Barna Log house

Company Jim Barna Log & Timber Homes is an innovative technology – the “dry” wooden house. Such buildings are erected from the dried wood or logs. Continue reading

KONE. Elevators for skyscrapers



KONE

KONE

The network of KONE covers 49 countries and the company continues to develop. The specialists of KONE offer their clients a full range of services: from the help in choosing the equipment and the design of the elevator shaft to its installation, maintenance and modernization. Continue reading

FINEBER siding



FineBer siding

FineBer siding

The vinyl siding made by factory Terni Polymer under the trademark FineBer, appeared on the market of construction materials in 2001 and immediately had a reputation as a product worthy to be at the line with the best global brands. It corresponds to the American ASTM standards and it is not inferior by its characteristics to the best examples of American and Canadian production. During the production of FineBer siding method of coextrusion is used. Such technology allows you to create siding panels, consisting of two layers, where the front layer provides an attractive appearance and resistance to external agency and inner layer gives the high durability to the siding. Effectively designed colours palette of FineBer siding in combination with a variety of related accessories, provides the ability to quickly and accurately renovate the facades of buildings and give them an elegant appearance. Continue reading

Elixir – manufacture of vinyl siding panels



Elixir

Elixir

The company Elixir (U.S.) was founded in 1948 in Los Angeles and began its work in a small rented room. Over time, the modest company turned into an industrial giant with a production area of 200 thousand square meters and a staff of 1300 employees. Elixir branches are located throughout the country and Elixir products are widespread worldwide. Continue reading

How not to drown in the flood of noise: the material “Isover Floating Floor”



Isover floating floor

Isover floating floor

Residents of multi-storied buildings often suffer from clip-clop of heels or kick of ball, which are coming from the top apartments, as well as from the variety of sounds during repairs in the building. This percussive noise comes from the mechanical effects on the constructions, such as ceilings. The stronger the connections and links in them, so the appreciable this noise. The level of noise is significantly reduced if you lay the “floating” floor in the load-bearing slabs with lining. To create such design there is a new material “Isover Floating Floor” – mineral plates of size 1389 × 1190 × 40 mm with grooved edge. Convenient connection “groove – feather” provides easy and fast installation. Light weight (80 kg/m2) did not increase the load on the floor. Continue reading

Facade cladding from Corus



Corus Colorcoat Prisma

Corus Colorcoat Prisma

Qbiss by trimo company, using the facade cladding Corus Colorcoat Prisma, favors to the successful presentation of The Dolls House, the architectural installation of Slovenian designer Niki Zupancha. Installation welcomes visitors of Superstudio Piu in Milan Design Week. As a part of the exhibition “I Will Buy the Flowers Myself”, concept of innovative design of The Dolls House, with its chimney, crowned by clouds of smoke, being shot with pearls, has to identify the difference between the world of objects and the world of forms, the distinction incarnated in the image of house. The success of Zupancha’s project was based on such decoration design that the rich color of elegant and luxury surface creates the almost three-dimensional effect. Continue reading

Safety anchor Concrete Detent Anchor



Concrete Detent Anchor

Concrete Detent Anchor

The direction DBI-SALA of Capital Safety company, intended exclusively to protection against falls from height, has announced the start of sales of its new device Concrete Detent Anchor. Made of strong, corrosion-resistant stainless steel, this anchor provides a simple and safe solution for workers, operating at altitudes, which can be simply fasten and unfasten by pressing the button. Anchor consists of two parts. These are the socket, which is stationary mounted in concrete, and extracted locking device (stopper) with attached chain and safety end. Continue reading

New model of capture HL3045



HL3045 Selector Grab

HL3045 Selector Grab

Company McQuaid Engineering has filled up a ruler of hinged equipment MQ with new powerful universal capture. Capture HL3045 Selector Grab is intended for 30–45-tonne dredges. Capture is offered in two variants: Two-maxillary on 2600 kg, and with 3х2 teeths on 3500 kg. Continue reading

Architectural glass. What is High Facade glazing?



SentryGlas

SentryGlas

 In construction, especially in business projects, in recent years widespread trend erecting tall buildings – hotels, business centers, to a lesser extent, residential homes. This is linked with many conditions, in particular so that the construction of tall buildings gives the opportunity to save the territory development, freeing them to other purposes. This high-rise buildings to higher requirements – they must be both safe and architecturally attractive. To ensure the safety of both their expression and a strong emphasis on the use of laminated glass. Developing solutions for the production of safety glass, different from the traditional (Polyvinyl butyral or PVB), provides an opportunity for designers, architects and designers use all the best properties of multilayer glass facades. In this article we examine the comparative characteristics of mechanical strength of multilayer glass with the use of traditional materials (PVB) and the new innumerous adhesive polymer layers SentryGlas ®, which are much stiffer and stronger than the PVB. Continue reading

Geothermal power plants are becoming cost-effective



Hatch Geothermal Power Plant

Hatch Geothermal Power Plant

The advanced geothermal power plant started to work in the United States. It supplies energy to customers 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, which can not be said about another alternative source such as the sun and wind.

The U.S. company Raser Technologies opened in Thermo the commercial geothermal power plant Hatch Geothermal Power Plant. The current produced by this plant goes to California, namely to Anaheim, which supply 9 thousand of homes. A distinctive feature of the new station is a source of low-temperature of geothermal heat, which is generally considered unsuitable for the generation of energy. Continue reading