To meet today’s resurgent demand for new housing as well as the construction labor to build it, apprenticeship programs are filling the gap where employees are scarce. During the housing crash, many experienced workers left the construction industry for jobs elsewhere. Even though available work is now steadily returning to the industry due to the […]
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Vapor retarders protect the roof structure from the effects of moisture infiltrating from the inside out. Typically, we think of roof coverings to prevent moisture leaking in. However, roof structures are vulnerable to continuous exposure to interior water vapor migrating upward and out of the building. If the building is slightly pressurized, the effect is
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U.S. bamboo flooring production seems poised to become a reality if the plans recently announced by Resource Fiber Inc. come to fruition. Production of any bamboo construction materials has been virtually unheard of in the United States. The primary reason is simply that the raw material is grown extensively in the same parts of the
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