Archives for the 'General' Category
Water drops suspended in mid air
Low pressure shower head?
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12 July 2009 | General | Comments Off
Finally
Finally; a camera that can stop water drops in mid air! And you can zoom in on the drops and they don't pixilate.
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12 July 2009 | General | Comments Off
Stopping By The Salton Sea At Sunset
I was heading home from an inspection in El Centro the other day and decided to take the route through Imperial Valley. While passing the Salton Sea, I noticed the reflection of the setting sun on the water and several birds. I’m still trying to get used to my new digital SLR so I thought [...]
24 January 2009 | General, Photography | Comments Off
Agency Fights Building Code Born of 9-11
The International Code Council has recommended incorporating tough new requirements for 2009 that apply to tall skyscrapers. The code is specifically intended to address some of the issues believed to be most detrimental at the World Trade Center on 11 Sept 2001. Curiously a major objector to this standard is the federal government’s own General [...]
10 September 2008 | Business, Construction, Construction and Law, General | Comments Off
2007 California Building Code Available For Free
The Public.Resource.Org is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization committed to making the governing laws of the U.S.A. available to the public that those laws apply to. As they point out here, there are numerous companies that profit greatly by making these documents available (West Law, Lexis Nexis), but at a high cost. It is the opinion [...]
5 July 2008 | Construction, Construction and Law, General, Litigation | Comments Off
Tom Hanks Loses Home Construction Lawsuit
Tom Hanks and Rita Wilson have been in a dispute with Ketchum, Idaho based Storey Construction, Inc. over the construction of their Sun Valley, Idaho home. Hanks and his wife were ordered to pay $1.85M to the firm in 2004, but filed a request for arbitration, alleging latent defects. After the first request for arbitration [...]
27 June 2008 | Construction, Construction Defect, Construction and Law, General, Litigation | Comments Off
Watch Fire Researchers Torch Homes, Offices and Warehouses
Wired Magazine has a video gallery profiling the testing and analysis work conducted at the NIST’s Building and Fire Research Laboratory’s Fire Dynamics and Smokeview software modeling and laboratory fire testing experiments. The BFRL provide invaluable data for manufacturers, contractors and others in the building industry to further fire safety standards and practices. And how [...]
21 June 2008 | Construction, Construction Defect, Consulting, Experts, General, Inspections, Technology | Comments Off
How Not To Transport A Ladder
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24 May 2008 | Construction, Experts, General, Inspections, Photography | Comments Off
Photos: The Contractor Read the Plans a Tad Too Literally…
The great folks over at the Washington Construction Law Blog posted a series of photos entitled, “the contractor read the plans a tad too literally.” Although humorous, this is actually a common situation that has led to more than a few construction defects. Sometimes the construction documents produced by the architect are a little vague [...]
24 May 2008 | Construction, Construction Defect, Construction and Law, Design, General, Litigation | Comments Off
Full Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals Affirms Lower Court’s Holding in Garcia v. Brockway
“In a case that is being closely watched in the multi-family housing industry, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals yesterday released its opinion affirming the lower court’s holding that the 2-year statute of limitations for a private civil action alleging violation of the Fair Housing Act’s accessibility requirements for design and construction is triggered, i.e., [...]
13 May 2008 | Construction, Construction Defect, Construction and Law, Design, Experts, General, Inspections, Litigation | Comments Off
