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NFRC Documents Earn ANSI Designation

November 1st, 2014

The National Fenestration Rating Council (NFRC) announced that three NFRC documents have officially earned the American National Standard (ANS) designation from the American National Standards Institute (ANSI). The three NFRC documents referenced in International Code Council (ICC) Building Codes were the ones subjected to the process. The documents, with their new designations, are: ANSI/NFRC 100-2014: […]

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Contour Crafting wins design competition

November 1st, 2014

Contour Crafting, a computerized construction method that rapidly 3D prints large-scale structures directly from architectural CAD models, has been awarded the grand prize of $20,000 in the 2014 "Create the Future" Design Contest. Contour Crafting automates the construction of whole structures and radically reduces the time and cost of construction. The large-scale 3D printing technology […]

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