How to Choose the Best Construction Tape for Vapor Barrier Seams
Over the past 40 years, a growing awareness of the importance of sustainability, reducing energy use, and creating healthy indoor spaces has prompted many changes [...]
Top 5 Energy-Efficient Materials for Building Sustainable Communities
Each year, builders of sustainable communities strive to include the best new energy-efficient materials and methods into their new buildings and homes. Energy-efficient building products [...]
7 Must-Haves for Energy-Efficient Building
Energy efficiency is a priority for anyone constructing a building — making energy-efficient building strategies more important than ever. When putting up a commercial building [...]
Commercial Building Wrap: 5 Important Features for All Commercial Buildings
Barricade® Wrap Plus achieves all five of the important features of a commercial building wrap: durability, moisture-resistance, permeability, control of air infiltration, and ease of [...]
High-Performance Air Barrier Systems Key to Medical Building Construction
Barricade® Building Wrap is a high-performance air barrier that supplies continuous control of airflow over the entire building enclosure and can withstand damage during and [...]
3 Ways the Construction Industry is Reducing Labor Costs
Running a construction company can be a lucrative business. Depending on what kind of construction they specialize in, a company can land massive contracts and [...]
6 Construction Trends in 2019 for Higher Education Buildings
Higher education building construction escalated during the 1960s to accommodate the wave of baby boomers entering college. These aging buildings now represent 40 percent of [...]
Achieving LEED Certification with Air and Water Barriers for Multifamily Construction
A required feature of modern multifamily buildings is energy-efficiency. Critical to an energy-efficient building is a tight building envelope, which requires a high-quality air and [...]
Slash Your Commercial Building Energy Costs in 5 Easy Steps
Each year, the cost of heating, cooling, and running a commercial building is steadily rising. This is because energy costs across the board are going [...]