Sources: Home Building Institute, Washington, D.C.; CP staff During an International Builders’ Show briefing earlier this month in Orlando, Home Builders Institute CEO Ed Brady dubbed the industry’s chronic labor shortage as a “long-term structural crisis” and issued a “call to action for an all hands and industry-wide effort to increase training, compensation, diversity and productivity.” “We need to take…
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RMC Foundation report: Optimize low-rise C-I-P wall reinforcement
Sources: RMC Research & Education Foundation, Alexandria, Va.: CP staff A new RMC Research & Education Foundation report states the case for engineers, practitioners and code officials to consider design loads versus prescriptive reinforcement requirements for concrete walls framing low-rise buildings in moderate or lower seismic zones. “Simulation-based Investigation of the Performance of Low-rise Concrete Walls with Low Reinforcement Ratios”…
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