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Best Practices: Pacific Coast Building Products

PACIFIC COAST BUILDING PRODUCTS (“Paccoast”) is the parent company of well established manufacturers, distributors and installers of a wide variety of building materials across the western United States and Canada. Paccoast is one of the industry’s largest privately-held building product manufacturer/distributors, employs over 3,400 people, and uses of Reed Connect’s data and online tools with dozens of its sales professionals. Connections recently interviewed Paccoast’s Elaine Keane, Director of Marketing to get insight into “how” Paccoast leverages its RCD investment....
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Authored by Building Design & Construction, the leading provider of solutions to inspire building teams to design and construct great places for people, this feature series reviews the “state of the industry” with regard to severe weather. Various building industry contributors to the series include a cost analysis by RSMeans engineers based upon 2007 cost data.

Severe Weather and Walls/Roofs

The track record for spray polyurethane foam (SPF) roof and wall insulation is long and positive. This widely specified and installed roofing and building enclosure system provides good insulating qualities and long-term building protection. It is relatively easy to build with, and effective in terms of first and life-cycle costs. Recent events, however, including several major U.S. hurricanes, have revealed the real value of SPF as a safe, sturdy and effective product that endures severe weather better than many....

Topics in this whitepaper include:

Building Materials and Severe Weather
Storm Events and Effects on Buildings, Including Wind Loading
Case Study of Superdome Re-roofing
The Miami International Airport Re-roofing
NIST Findings on SPF systems

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Reed Construction Data and ecoScorecard Announce Partnership

Reed Construction Data, a leading provider of building information modeling (BIM) solutions and construction information, today announced a partnership with ecoScorecard, an Atlanta-based organization advancing the green building industry by facilitating the product evaluation and documentation process against the dominant environmental rating systems.

The ecoScorecard software presents architects and designers with an efficient way to search for green products, evaluate them against nationally recognized environmental rating systems and generate the documentation necessary for inclusion in the....
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