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Peter Hartog is an architect and the principal of Building Diagnostics Asia Pacific—a forensic engineering practice with offices in Bangkok, Thailand, and Sydney, Australia. He has investigated defects and performed pre-emptive design reviews on stone cladding, paving, and interior finishes in ...

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While all the qualities listed in this article make acetylated wood an ideal choice for historic preservation, architects experienced with the material say it does come with some minor limitations and considerations. The biggest of those may be cost, as acetylated wood often ...

For replacement of the wraparound porch, the National Park Service (NPS) selected acetylated wood.


Theodore Roosevelt’s Sagamore Hill National Historic Site, located in Oyster Bay, New York, is undergoing a three-year, $7.2-million rehabilitation, including the replacement of the wraparound porch ...

Adhered Manufactured Stone Veneer: Manufacturing performance for the winter

by Chris Hines Stone has long been admired as a building material that not only looks beautiful, but also withstands the test of time. From the Great Pyramids and parts of the Colosseum to some of the oldest homes in ...

Thermal radiation is the movement of heat energy from a warm object to a cooler item through space. A common example involves an occupant standing in front of a window and experiencing cold during the winter. In this instance, one’s body is radiating heat to the cooler window surface.

The ...

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At some point, windows reach the end of their useful life. The question is, how does a building owner know whether it is advisable to defer a window project another year or two, or to call in a design professional right away? At what point is window replacement inevitable?

The first thing to ...

Corrosion begins to affect a concrete structure’s integrity when its products (i.e. rust) occupy a greater volume than the original steel. This expansion creates tensile stresses in the concrete causing it to stain, crack, and spall. Cracks are a direct path for corrosive agents to reach the steel ...

Treating reinforcement corrosion in parking structures

Parking garages are an integral part of our nation’s infrastructure. Although they are subject to more deterioration than other building types, their maintenance is typically not considered of primary importance to building owners or managers ...

The 3345-m2 (36,000 sf), five-story gallery is Hauser & Wirth’s first purpose-built, ground-up building. Selldorf Architects has collaborated with Hauser & Wirth on its spaces internationally since the founding of the gallery in 1992. As with all of

Selldorf’s previous designs for Hauser & Wirth’s ...