10–1 Adhesive bonding of wood plays an increasing role in the forest products industry and is a key factor for efficiently utilizing our timber resource. The main use of adhesives is in the manufacture of building materials, including plywood, oriented strandboard, particleboard, fiberboard, structural composite lumber, doors, windows and frames, and factory-laminated wood products. Adhesives a...

The purpose of this Technology Installation Review is to provide an overview of the field testing of 18 pre-production prototype units of a “drop-in” type residential heat pump water heater installed in a wide variety of host home situations across the United States for more than one year. It provides descriptions of the construction, installation, control, instrumentation, and data acquisition...

Dave Bohnhoff is an Assistant Professor in the Agricultural Engineering Department at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He teaches courses in Agricultral Structures and Environment, Metal Building Systems, and Residential Construction. The majority of his research has involved computer modeling and laboratory testing of mechanically-laminated posts and mechanical fasteners in wood. He is ver...

The system of model building codes and voluntary product standards used in the United States for structural lumber and engineered wood products can appear complicated and confusing to those introduced to it for the first time. This paper discusses the various types of structural wood products commonly used in U.S. residential and commercial construction, and the system of building codes and pro...

Since construction is considered as one of the main sources of environmental pollution in the world, the level of knowledge and awareness of project participants, especially project managers, regarding the construction impacts on the environment are required to be enhanced. The aim of this paper is to develop a prototype of a Sustainable-Construction Planning System (SCPS) in order to mitigate ...

As the demand for housing increases, building construction ignore adverse implication exposed to environment. The objective of study was analyze performance ongoing projects implementing green concept. tool applied Green Construction Site Index (GCSI) assess five categorizing into three groups or specifications (uncommercialized, non-residential building; commercial, residential and building). ...

In a city like Dubai, where one of the biggest and fastest growing construction markets in the world exists, the need to estimate the cost of quality in the construction projects becomes a vital task. This research used the prevention–appraisal–failure (PAF) model to evaluate the cost of quality (CoQ) and to determine its optimum value – the level of quality that minimizes the total CoQ – for t...

Commissioning is arguably the single most cost-effective strategy for reducing energy, costs, and greenhouse gas emissions in buildings today. Although commissioning has earned increased recognition in recent years, it remains an enigmatic practice whose visibility severely lags its potential. The application of commissioning to new buildings ensures that they deliver or exceed the performance ...