Architectural Products Update

 
Minimize Home Disaster Damage

The iLevel™ TJ®-Shear Panel resists lateral loads from earthquakes, hurricanes, and high winds. Even in regions where extreme weather may not be a concern, they offer specifiers and designers more flexibility for framing walls with numerous windows and doors, or with large openings such as garage doors. The panels are exceptionally strong and resist bowing, shrinking, and twisting. Because of their one-piece modular construction, one person can easily install panels of most sizes. They come in a variety of widths and heights and are a part of an integrated package of framing materials, from foundation to rooftop.

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Solar Energy Management

GridPoint Connect™ combines advanced battery storage, power electronics, and a computer to serve as a hub for solar technologies. It simplifies solar integration, provides online energy management, offers clean battery-based backup power, and facilitates the transmission of excess renewable energy into the power grid. It helps home and business owners automatically protect themselves from power outages and reduce their carbon footprint. This intelligent energy management hub is featured in the only two USGBC LEED-H Platinum-rated residences in the United States. These single-family houses are 80-percent more efficient than conventional residences of similar size.

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Lighter Underlayment for Steel Framing

Designed for use in buildings with light-gauge steel frame construction, LEVELROCK® CSD™ is the first poured underlayment that can be applied over metal framing systems or corrugated steel decks. The high-strength underlayment uses a gypsum-based concrete foundation that is thinner than poured-in-place concrete, creating a system that is up to 55-percent lighter per area than three-inch (7.6-centimeter) concrete. It is noncombustible and UL rated. Under normal conditions, the underlayment will set within two to three hours, allowing light traffic the following day.

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SLS® Fast, Durable Scale Models

AdvaTech's selective laser sintering (SLS®) technology can deliver a one-piece thermoplastic scale model built to exact specifications in less time and with lower cost than it would take to build the same model by hand. This allows architecture firms to present clients with a model the client can handle without concern. The ease and accuracy of the modeling process is improved, contributing to the efficiency of the entire design process.

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