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Concrete pier foundations can be used in place of wood piles in coastal areas where risk of erosion and scour is low.

Concrete pier foundations can be used in place of wood piles in coastal areas where risk of erosion and scour is low.
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Connecting hardware helps tie the roof to the walls to ensure a continuous load path to improve a building’s resistance to high winds, floods, and earthquakes.

Connecting hardware helps tie the roof to the walls to ensure a continuous load path to improve a building’s resistance to high winds, floods, and earthquakes.
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Connecting hardware helps tie the walls to the top plates and rim joists to ensure a continuous load path to improve a building’s resistance to high winds, floods, and earthquakes.

Connecting hardware helps tie the walls to the top plates and rim joists to ensure a continuous load path to improve a building’s resistance to high winds, floods, and earthquakes.
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Connection details for misaligned pier-foundation piles.

Connection details for misaligned pier-foundation piles.
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Connection of floor framing to support beam for a coastal home built on piles (band joist nailing to the floor joist is adequate to resist uplift forces).

Connection of floor framing to support beam for a coastal home built on piles (band joist nailing to the floor joist is adequate to resist uplift forces)
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Connection of floor support beam to foundation for pile foundation.

Connection of floor support beam to foundation for pile foundation.
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Connection of wall sheathing to window header.

Connection of wall sheathing to window header.
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Connection of wall to floor framing for a coastal home built on piles.

Connection of wall to floor framing for a coastal home built on piles.
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Connection of window header to exterior wall.

Connection of window header to exterior wall.
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Connection Points for Gable End Overhang with Outriggers

Connection Points for Gable End Overhang with Outriggers
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Constructability of Elevating Concrete Slabs on Grade

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Construction layers in a typical framed wall.

Construction layers in a typical framed wall.
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Continuous load path failure due to improper connections between a home and its foundation allowed this building to be overturned in hurricane force winds.

Continuous load path failure due to improper connections between a home and its foundation allowed this building to be overturned in hurricane force winds.
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Continuous load path failure due to improper connections between the roof decking and roof framing resulting from hurricane force winds.

Continuous load path failure due to improper connections between the roof decking and roof framing resulting from hurricane force winds.
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Continuous Load Path Framing

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Cool towers like this one at the Zion National Park Visitor Center can provide cooling to a building without any energy consumption

Cool towers like this one at the Zion National Park Visitor Center can provide cooling to a building without any energy consumption
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Correct seismic retrofit hardware for securing the sill plate to foundation wall

Correct seismic retrofit hardware for securing the sill plate to foundation wall
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Covering old asphalt shingles with new shingles can cause substrate irregularities that can interfere with the bonding of the self-seal adhesives in the new shingles.

Covering old asphalt shingles with new shingles can cause substrate irregularities that can interfere with the bonding of the self-seal adhesives in the new shingles.
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Cracks and Gaps

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Create a cool room to shelter from extreme heat by selecting a room in the basement or on the north or shaded side of the house, air sealing and insulating, providing low-wattage and battery-operated cooling, and reducing interior heat loads.

Create a cool room to shelter from extreme heat by selecting a room in the basement or on the north or shaded side of the house, air sealing and insulating, providing low-wattage and battery-operated cooling, and reducing interior heat loads.
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Custom Glass Skylight ASTM E330 Load Cycling Test After Large Missile Impact Test

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Damage associated with hurricane categories

Damage associated with hurricane categories
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Deck ledger flashing and fastener details.

Deck ledger flashing and fastener details.
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Deep scour around foundation piles from coastal flooding.

Deep scour around foundation piles from coastal flooding.