- Industry: Construction
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The portion of an architect's specification that is added after the specification when a building project is written.
Industry:Construction
The generic name for wood/plastic composites using wood impregnated with acrylic monomers and polymerized within the wood cells.
Industry:Construction
Resistance to a form of wear in which a gradual removal of a flooring surface is caused by the frictional action of relatively fine particles. Abrasion resistance generally depends on the toughness of the product or wear-layer, thickness of wear-layer, and existence of surface coatings.
Industry:Construction
The sounds of floor traffic and dropped objects are important when considering types of flooring materials. The cushioning of impacts reduces the generation of airborne sound within the room and the level of sound that can be transmitted to adjacent areas. It also minimizes the transmission of impact-generated, structure-borne noises throughout the building. In multifamily dwellings, the transmission of impact-generated noise is of primary concern. Resilient flooring, in general, "give" under the impact of footsteps, dropped objects and rolling loads. The resilience helps to reduce traffic noise. In comparison with other hard-surfaced flooring (wood, marble, ceramic, concrete, metal), resilient floors are low noise producers.
Industry:Construction
Refers to the use of a mixture of muriatic acid and water on concrete either to neutralize the surface if it shows signs of alkali or to open the surface to allow a good bond with adhesives or powder underlayments. This can actually cause problems in bonding due to acid residue.
Industry:Construction
The act of allowing wood moisture content to become at equilibrium with the environment in which it will perform (See EMC, Equilibrium Moisture Content)
Industry:Construction
A trade organization of the concrete industry.
Industry:Construction
A suspended floor located above the surface of the ground, over a well-ventilated air space with at least 18 inches between the bottom of the lowest horizontal structural member and any point of the ground. An above-grade subfloor is normally over a basement or a crawl space.
Industry:Construction
