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Volume 3, Number 3, Spring 1998

Construction Innovation is published quarterly by NRC-IRC. It provides news of recent research results, product evaluations, code developments and conference highlights to Canada's construction practitioners.
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Cover story

New deal makes it simpler to sell housing components in Japan

Construction codes

Life-cycle costing at heart of Model National Energy Codes

Codes related Web sites

Newsbriefs - New Technical Advisor joins the Standing Committee on Structural Design / Users Guide to National Plumbing Code

CCMC

Creation of CITAC provides national evaluation service for infrastructure industry

New product evaluations

International news

World-wide laboratory comparisons are paving the way for export of insulation and pre-fab buildings

Workshop explains new deal

Fire risk management

IRC developing new model for evaluating fire-protection systems in light industrial building

Indoor environment

Using ventilation to control contaminant build-up in office buildings

Industry partners

Fire stops in walls can provide both fire resistance and sound isolation

Newsbrief - IRC collaborates with CERL to advance service-life prediction

Urban infrastructure rehabilitation

IRC investigates durability of different types of pipe

Newsbrief - Consortium to study repair and protection of concrete bridges

Stucco and detergent don't mix

Newsbrief - Researchers from Taiwan visit IRC to discuss collaboration on FiRECAM(tm)

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Volume 3, Number 3, Spring 1998