Structural composite lumber (SCL) describes the family of engineered wood products manufactured using small, fast-growing, and underutilized trees. SCL includes laminated veneer lumber (LCL), parallel strand lumber (PSL), laminated strand lumber (LSL), and oriented strand lumber (OSL). Structural composite lumber ...
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What is Weathering Steel?
Weathering steels, also known by the trade name COR-TEN steels, are high-strength, low alloy steel with a carbon content of less than 0.2 percent by weight. It was originally developed in the 1930s by the United States Steel to prevent ...
Phase Change Materials (PCMs) for Building Applications
Phase-change materials (PCMs) possess high storage density in a narrow temperature interval. They release or absorb sufficient energy at phase transition (solid to liquid or vice versa) to provide useful heat or cooling. PCMs are used to enhance the thermal ...
Basic Principles to Achieve Net-Zero Energy Buildings (NZEB)
A net-zero energy building (NZEB) can be defined as a building that produces as much energy as it consumes when measured at the site. These buildings provide high performance by taking a significant amount of energy from renewable sources produced ...
Combined Heat and Power Systems (CHP) for Buildings
Combined Heat and Power (CHP) is a technology that produces electricity and thermal energy at high efficiencies using a heat engine or power system. CHP, also referred to as cogeneration, is a process in which the heat produced as a ...
Waste Heat to Power System (WHP) for Building Facilities
Waste heat to power (WHP) is a combined heat and power (CHP) system that converts heat from an existing thermal process into electric power. These are used in energy-intensive facilities like steel mills, glass furnaces, refineries, and cement kilns. As ...
High-Performance Building Envelope
A high-performance building envelope constitutes all the elements of a building’s outer shell that allows high-level control over different variables within the structure, such as the temperature, humidity, air, noise, and energy expenditure. A high-performance building envelope system is one ...
Difference Between Steel I-Beam and H-Beam
H-beams and I-beams are beams made of structural steel extensively used in construction applications. They are commonly used in building homes, bridges, large trailers, etc., due to the high strength imparted by them and the ease of construction. H-beams and ...