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GCP Products Shield This Coastal Luxury Home
By GCP. GCP products keep this home protected from coastal winds and rain while improving the home’s energy efficiency! This breathtaking home features a “reverse living” design that allows you to make the most of the spectacular coastal views, which was built by Jeff Sweenor and his design and ...
Reaching Mountain High Efficiency and Protection
By GCP Applied Technologies. Park City, Utah home elevates energy-efficiency and climate protection with VYCOR® enV-S™ weather barrier. The project A restaurateur with a passion for building energy-efficient houses set out to build his forever home in Park City, Utah. He designed his new home with contemporary styling with a focus on ...
Digging Deeper Foundations = More Water Infiltration Challenges
How to mitigate the risk with proven below-grade waterproofing solutions With space at a premium in many urban areas, developers are digging deeper foundations to increase the square footage of high end residential, commercial and mixed-use building projects. The lack of above grade space is leading to increased use of basements ...
The Quincy Cottage Project: An Exciting New Home Renovation Project
Watch NS Builders gut and renovate a beautiful cottage. Following is a transcription from the above video of NS Builders’ YouTube series entitled “The Quincy Project.” I'm introducing a brand-new project called the Quincy Cottage. So this home actually belongs to Doug, the man behind the camera, and his wife, ...
How an International Airport Uses MONOKOTE® and GRACE ICE & WATER SHIELD
By GCP Applied Technologies. The Incheon International Airport in Seoul, South Korea trusts MONOKOTE fireproofing and GRACE ICE and WATER SHIELD roofing underlayment. Approximately 50km from Seoul, South Korea on Yeongjong Island is the Incheon International Airport. The behemoth of a complex is the size of 60 football fields ...
Arizona State University Models How to Do Sustainability
By Lisa Barnard, GCP. ASU’s high-performance research facility is constructed with highly sustainable materials. Discovering how to make Arizona State University’s (ASU) new science and technology building meet sustainable standards was not an easy feat. To reduce their carbon footprint, ASU went with a concrete mixture with less cement. ...
Critical Consideration: The Surface of a Self-adhered Roofing Underlayment
By Rob White, GCP. An important consideration when selecting a self-adhered roofing underlayment is the surface: granular or smooth. Since introduced well over 100 years ago, there have been numerous advances in the design of roofing underlayments. However, similar to the placement of these materials, these innovations have ...
GCP System Keeps Project from Getting Stuck in Traffic
By GCP. VERIFI® in-transit concrete management advances U.K. concrete barrier projects. In 2005, Smart Motorway Projects was launched as a commitment to replace all life-expired steel barrier systems with concrete on United Kingdom’s motorways. The initiative, created by the U.K. Highways Agency, is to increase safety on the road, ...
GCP Applied Technologies' Acquisition by Saint-Gobain Closes
GCP Applied Technologies, a leading global provider of construction products, announced today that the agreement to be acquired by Saint-Gobain has closed. Saint-Gobain has acquired all of the outstanding shares of GCP Applied Technologies for $32.00 per share, in cash, in a transaction valued at approximately $2.3 billion. GCP will delist ...
Smart Home Demonstrates the Value of Efficient Building Products
By Cass Jacoby. The Living Lab shows us how products like VYCOR® enV-S™ help make homes more efficient and prove their place in sustainable home construction of the future. Anyone driving down the street and looking at the construction of this house wouldn’t recognize anything too different about it. ...
