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2. Housewrap - Wikipedia

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   Housewrap (or house wrap), also known by the genericized trademark homewrap (or home wrap), generally denotes a modern synthetic material used to protect buildings. Housewrap functions as a weather-resistant barrier , preventing rain or other forms of moisture from getting into the wall assembly while allowing water vapor to pass to the exterior.

3. Rainscreen - Wikipedia

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   Typical layers in a wall system with rainscreen drainage plane. A rainscreen drainage plane is an air gap and the water resistant barrier of a rainscreen. Together they provide a predictable, unobstructed path drainage for liquid moisture to drain from a high point of the wall (where it enters) to a low point of the wall (where it exits) the ...

4. Exterior insulation finishing system - Wikipedia

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   In the United States, the International Building Code and ASTM International define Exterior Insulation and Finish System (EIFS) as a non-load-bearing exterior wall cladding system that consists of an insulation board attached either adhesively, mechanically, or both, to the substrate; an integrally reinforced base coat; and a textured protective finish coat.

5. Masonry veneer - Wikipedia

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   Because the masonry veneer is non-structural, it must be tied back to the building structure to prevent movement under wind and earthquake loads. Brick ties are used for this purpose, and may take the form of corrugated metal straps nailed or screwed to the structural framing, or as wire extensions to horizontal joint reinforcement in a fully masonry veneer or cavity wall.

6. Geonets - Wikipedia

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   A geonet is a geosynthetic material similar in structure to a geogrid, consisting of integrally connected parallel sets of ribs overlying similar sets at various angles for in-plane drainage of liquids or gases. Geonets are often laminated with geotextiles on one or both surfaces and are then referred to as drainage geocomposites. They are ...

7. ‘What in the world?’: Colorado homes to be bulldozed after ...

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   Builders filled in the pond and built homes on the land without notifying the buyers. After exploring all the options, the town of Johnstown has been forced to buy back the four homes, demolish ...

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9. Curtain wall (architecture) - Wikipedia

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   An early example of an all-steel curtain wall used in the classical style is the Kaufhaus Tietz department store on Leipziger Straße, Berlin, built in 1901 (since demolished). [ 5 ] Some of the first curtain walls were made with steel mullions , and the polished plate glass was attached to the mullions with asbestos- or fiberglass-modified ...