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Quizzical Pursuit
—The Architecture Puzzler
Created by Dave Guadagni
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Architecture Puzzler #185
Hollow metal doors have a variety of cores: polystyrene cores for insulation, steel stiffened cores for exterior doors, and lightweight honeycomb cores. The honeycomb core, first used in steel doors in the late 1950s, was originally designed for what purpose?
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Question from Last Week:
Architecture Puzzler #184
On average, the sun striking a one-square-meter surface produces the equivalent of 1000 watts of energy. If an advanced-design photovoltaic array were set up on that same square meter, how much energy could it harvest? How about a consumer-grade photovoltaic array?
Answer to Puzzler #184
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Dave Guadagni, AIA, is an architect with Robertson/Sherwood/Architects
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Steel door for a bank vault.
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