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Ask Building Product Questions – Get Answers From The Industry

Help Has Arrived:Your Answer Key To Building Product Questions What Is The Building Products Circle? The Building Products Circle is a community of Building Product DIY, designers, specifiers, dealers, installers, & manufacturers coming together to discuss, support, and inform. The Building Products Circle was created to provide the construction industry a first-of-its-kind central place for …

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Comparing Masonry vs. Wood Frame Construction

Blog, Industry Insights / By Frank Bennardo, PE

Watch CEO Frank Bennardo PE Compare Wood Frame vs. Masonry Construction Each has its pros & cons, which would you pick? Duty calls during Frank’s summer vacation as he took to the neighborhood to witness wood-framed construction first-hand. Living in a high-wind area of South Florida (the HVHZ zone), seeing this type of construction was …

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Soil To Shell – A Construction Montage

Blog, Industry Insights / By Frank Bennardo, PE

CEO Frank Bennardo PE takes to the skies to document the construction of this 2-story masonry home in a high wind area of South Florida Watch Engineering Express CEO Frank Bennardo PE as he documents the construction of this dream home in South Florida.

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Preparing For Hurricane Season

Blog / By Rick Waters

Understanding the High Velocity Hurricane Zone It is essential for manufacturers, builders, and contractors in areas prone to hurricanes are well-prepared. In this blog, we will discuss hurricane season and Florida’s High Velocity Hurricane Zone (HVHZ). We will also examine the essential role that Engineering Express plays as well as how Miami-Dade Notice of Acceptances …

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Engineering Express Assists With Chronicling A New House Build

Blog / By Frank Bennardo, PE

Engineering Express has been chosen to partner on a project featuring a 2-story CBS Masonry new house build in a high wind area of South Florida. We will be providing input on technical aspects of the design, construction, and blueprints. The series runs from November 2022 until the moving trucks leave. Subscribe to episodes from …

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Storefront Glazing: How to Boost your Window Shopping Business

Blog, Featured / By Frank L Bennardo PE

Floor displays are only a fraction of the equation. Storefront glazing, glass quality, and appearance play a substantial role in attracting customers into a store. It can also help sway the window shopper to make their way inside and make a purchase.

A Modern Tuscan Staircase Renovation

Blog / By Frank Bennardo, PE

Transforming a Tuscan Eyesore in the Center of the Home to a Modern Showpiece By Sabrina Bennardo, LCSW When we bought this townhome we knew that one of the first things that had to go was the staircase. We had a vision for our staircase renovation and the best team to help bring it to …

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Top 10 Deck Safety Tips

Blog, Featured / By Frank L Bennardo PE

Winter has passed and Spring has sprung! Is your deck ready for the spring and summer seasons? Here are the top 10 steps you can take to check the safety of your deck to ensure your friends and family are safe during deck season.

5 Creative Designs to Improve Commercial Outdoor Spaces

Blog, Featured / By tayler

Designing smooth transitions between inside and out and getting rooted in nature has become increasingly popular throughout residential designs and is rapidly seeping into commercial building designs, as well.

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Rooftop Wind Forces Help Page

Blog, Industry Insights, Mechanical Equipment / By Frank Bennardo, PE

DETERMINING WIND FORCES ON GROUND & ROOFTOP MECHANICAL UNITS Resources to help design professionals interpret performance evaluations & determine net forces on supporting ground & rooftop structures for mechanical units. Examples of mechanical equipment include ground-mounted or rooftop air conditioning/heating units, water chillers, generators, solar panels, gas & water tanks, piping, ductwork, access ladders, stands, …

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8 Warning Signs of Using a ‘Small-Time Engineer’

Blog, Industry Insights / By admin

I often tell of the warnings to companies that use ‘small-time engineers’ thinking they are saving money & time. I can tell the story because I used to be that small-time engineer. That’s me in the photo in the early 2000’s when things were very different in our industry and we ‘small engineers’ ruled the …

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On-Demand Engineering – Could This Be the Future?

Blog, Featured, Industry Insights / By admin

Innovative Firm Delivers Disruptive TechnologyTo An Age-Old Profession Download this article If you’re in the construction or design industry you know the drill. You have a quick design need. You email your engineer and wait. Then you call and wait. Then you get an answer, and a bill for their time. You have so many …

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Make A Hurricane Pet Disaster Plan

Blog / By admin

Click here to learn how to make a pet disaster plan for when a storm strikes

Deconstructing This

Blog, Industry Insights / By admin

Listen to our Podcast “Deconstructing This” available wherever you listen. Find more at DeconstructingThis.com

LEGO LESSONS FROM ENGINEERING FIRM CEO

Blog, Featured, Industry Insights / By admin

LEGO LESSONS FROM ENGINEERING FIRM CEO By Frank Bennardo, PE January 7, 2020 PART 1: THE SETUP It began when I walked by the newly opened LEGO® store at the local mall (it actually started when I was 5, but we’ll get back to that). A cool new LEGO® crane model in the window caught …

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Learn More About Glass

Blog, Industry Insights / By admin

Here’s a collection of informative videos on glass manufacturing compliments of our friends at PulpStudio.com

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