Having looked at a simple balcony of sheet flow and traffic topping in Part 1, let’s look at a balcony which uses a center drain. The immediate difference is that the geometry of the balcony is constrained by several factors. Most traffic topping manufacturers recommend a minimum slope of 1% to achieve positive drainage on …
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The Crisis In The Architectural Profession
The profession of architecture and building design is in a slow moving crisis, manifested by the rise in the pre-construction phase and modularization. A few decades ago it was assumed that the day the contractor walked out of the building department with a stamped set of plans, they could immediately start digging and fabricating the …