Outdoor Living Supply has acquired The Rock Place, a full-service distributor of hardscape, natural and manufactured stone, porcelain and landscape products based in Smyrna, Tenn. The transaction with Rock Place founders Lee and William Marbet expands OLS’ footprint in the Volunteer State, adding four strategic locations in the greater Nashville market. Lee Marbet will continue in an OLS regional leadership…
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ASHRAE, ICC open building life cycle emissions draft standard to comment
Sources: ASHRAE, Atlanta; CP staff ASHRAE and the International Code Council invite comment to their jointly development document, Proposed ASHRAE/ICC Standard 240P – Quantification of Life Cycle Greenhouse Gas Emissions of Buildings, through March 18. The draft of the standard can be obtained and comments portal accessed here. Standard 240P will provide a methodology to quantify the embodied and operational GHG…
Read MoreMaster Builders rheology conditioner eases Type IL concrete mix work
Sources: Master Builders Solutions, Beechwood, Ohio; CP staff World of Concrete 2024 marked the formal North American market debut of Master Builders Solutions’ MasterEase, a next generation rheology-modifying, water-reducing admixture. Recently developed polymers enable the new ASTM C494 Type A agent to lower concrete viscosity compared to prior water reducing admixtures. The polymers reduce yield stress, the main indicator of…
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