Floor Covering News

AUGUST 27, 2020

San Francisco—Smith & Fong, a company specializing in sustainable interior finishes, has added six new colors to its award-winning Durapalm line of palmwood flooring. “We We have worked hard to develop a strong supply of high-quality palm from our sources in India,” said Dan Smith, owner.

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Floor Covering News

JULY 10, 2023

Green Building Council (USGBC) announced the recipients of its 2023 LEED Homes Awards, recognizing projects, developers and home builders that have demonstrated leadership in the residential green building marketplace. Each winner pursued and successfully achieved LEED certification, the world’s most widely adopted green rating system.

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Life of an Architect

NOVEMBER 3, 2013

Despite the fact that we are going to seek LEED for Homes certification for our project (where deconstruction is preferable to demolition), there are benefits to every residential home owner who is planning on building a new house on a site where a house currently exists. So what are the advantages to deconstruction?

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Life of an Architect

MARCH 2, 2014

The second floor has all the extra bedrooms and bathrooms – each bedroom space has a light monitor in the ceiling. Since the CHouse Modern has an exposed (polished and waxed) concrete floor, how we decided to structurally build the foundation led us to selecting a post tensioned slab. im from india. anyway that apart.

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