Inside an NCI Building Systems plant in north Houston, a machine unspools long sheets of steel to be chopped, crunched through more than a dozen metal rollers and bent into corrugated building panels.
Rolls of metal sheet 1 to 4 feet wide line the floor in all shades of gray, beige, gree
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Tips for building basement and partition walls with steel studs.
Metal studs are cold-formed steel components used for framing basement and partition walls just as regular wooden apparatuses. They are mainly used to support non-load bearing walls.
On the other hand, metal studs fra
Seabees from Naval Construction Group (NCG) 2 and NCG 1 participated in a two-week course on the Cold-formed Steel Mobile Factory (CFSMF) at the Contingency Construction Crew Training (CCCT) facility on board Naval Construction Battalion Center Gulfport, MS.
The CFSMF is an emerging conc
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For those of you who don’t know, we introduced a new project to our lineup, coined “Project Two Face” late last year. Two Face is a ’92 Ford Ranger, and it came equipped with a very underpowered four-cylinder engine a
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Aside from the joke about stud finders always pointing back at me, the question remains: Do stud finders work? Actually, yes they do…sort of. Here’s the thing—even the best stud finders require knowing how they operate. The key involv
Norman Horne's building materials company ARC Manufacturing Limited is taking incremental steps into new regional markets, and is now preparing its next shipment of nails and roofing to French-speaking neighbour, Haiti.
ARC is already doing business in another Caribbean country, alth
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MICHAEL APTED earned acclaim as a versatile director of dramatic and nonfiction films ranging from Coal Miner’s Daughter, the 1980 biopic in which Sissy Spacek gave an Oscar-winning performance as country music icon Loretta Lynn, to Incident at O
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The name Flat Tail Metal Works is a nod to Dill’s personal hobby – fur trapping. It also was the inspiration behind a 'dam' clever tag line. Images: Leigh Bedokis Photography, Carterville, Ill.
Eighteen months ago, Robert Dill of Carterville, Ill., made good use of his ability to bu