IRC is heading a consortium of provincial, federal and utilities agencies formed to find new tools for reducing energy costs in atrium buildings, while at the same time, optimizing indoor environment parameters such as maximizing daylight in the atrium and its adjacent spaces, and improving acoustical performance.
A recently signed liaison agreement between the Canadian Construction Materials Centre (CCMC) and the British Board of Agrément (BBA) will greatly enhance the exportability of products evaluated by CCMC to the European market.
Every day, road agencies in Canada and around the world face a common problem in their efforts to rehabilitate roads. This problem is reflective cracking, which is the propagation of cracks from the existing pavement into the layer of pavement added (overlay) during rehabilitation. Such cracking requires frequent maintenance and rehabilitation, imposing a budgetary burden on highway authorities.
The Institute for Research in Construction is pleased to announce the release of five national code documents on CD-ROM:
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IRC’s Building Envelope and Structure Program has a new test facility that can monitor and weigh a full-scale wall assembly (2.4 m x 2.4 m), providing useful information about how walls dry out.
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The roofing industry now has two new tools at their disposal to investigate their products more accurately: a method to test the resistance of mechanically attached flexible membrane roofing systems to dynamic wind uplift, and a facility to test roofing systems under simultaneous dynamic wind and temperature conditions. These tools result from the completion of Phase II of the IRC-led SIGDERS consortium research project. SIGDERS stands for the Special Interest Group for Dynamic Evaluation of Roofing Systems.
Carleton University, in partnership with NRC, the Ottawa Fire Services and the Toronto Transit Commission, with resources obtained from the Canada Foundation for Innovation and the Ontario Innovation Trust, has just completed construction of full-scale fire research facilities adjacent to existing NRC facilities in Almonte, Ontario. The new facilities, combined with the capabilities of the existing ones, provide a unique world-class resource for the Canadian construction and transportation industries.
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