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Cambridge Architectural, the leader in flexible woven wire mesh for interior and exterior building applications, is expanding its product portfolio and is now offering anodized aluminum mesh in eight colors for interior applications such as ceiling canopies and architectural drapery. Cambridge now offers the largest variety of anodized aluminum mesh patterns and colors in the architectural products industry.

Cambridge anodized aluminum mesh is available in five patterns traditionally offered in stainless steel (Shade, Mid-Shade, Mid-Balance, Diamond and Windsor). Available colors are: light bronze, medium bronze, nickel, black, pearl, blue, red and gold.

We believe this is a game-changer for architects and designers who are looking for a broader selection in lighter weight mesh, said Cambridge Architectural Brand Manager Gary Compton. When you look at whats currently offered in aluminum mesh by other manufacturers, its limited to a single pattern or two with only a couple choices in anodized colors.

More than one-third lighter in weight and requiring less structural support than stainless steel, Cambridge anodized aluminum also provides a warmer finish to the metal, according to Compton, and can be used as a decorative accent, canopy or curtain divider for a variety of interior design uses.

The lighter weight also offers the potential for lower overall costs depending on the project specifications, Compton said.

In addition to offering mesh, Cambridge can provide several sophisticated attachment systems for architectural drapery and ceiling canopies. The choices include Cambridges Curtain Attachment System that attaches flexible metal fabric to carriers and allows the curtain to roll smoothly along the track length as a window treatment or draping space divider. Flexible metal fabrics are hung sideways to maximize a draping effect.

The company plans to further expand its aluminum product line in 2015 to include new attachment systems for tension mounting.

As we continue to build and expand our portfolio of products, customers can expect the same craftsmanship and high quality standards that have been associated with our metal mesh for the last 103 years, Compton said.

Cambridge has produced aluminum mesh previously for custom jobs, including the elevator cabs at Carnegie Hall in New York.

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Published: Thursday, 11/6/2014 PEACH WEEKENDER | COVER STORY

BY JANET ROMAKER BLADE STAFF WRITER

Overhead in a Toledo Museum of Art gallery, thousands of silvery gray boxes take flight on origami wings, tucked alongside what creator Pinaree Sanpitakcalls breast clouds.

On view through Jan. 4 in a portion of Canaday Gallery, Anything Can Break is a ceiling installation made up of a steel superstructure and mesh from which the flying cubes and clear glass clouds dangle in what the artist calls accurate randomness. The sculptural work, which took several days to install, is embedded with fiber optics and speakers linked to sensors.

As visitors move around in the space beneath the installation, the space comes alive with soundscapes.

Anything Can Break was first shown at the 2012 Biennale of Sydney in the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, and the installation at the Toledo Art Museum is downsized for space reasons.

The exhibition here has about 60 percent of the 5,700 origami boxes made by Sanpitak and an assistant who folded sheets of wrapping paper some silvery shiny with delicate patterns, others plain with a grayish tone into the work of art. About 200 breast-shaped glass pieces were made for Anything Can Break.

The Thai artists focus on the female form in metal, fabric, glass, or ceramic is designed to prompt admiration, rather than shock, and her artwork has earned her accolades and solo exhibitions in museums and galleries, including in Los Angeles and Singapore.

Another of her installations will be on display for a year, from this month to next November, at the Toledo Museum of Art where finishing touches to the transparent glass sculpture were being made a few days ago in the Glass Pavilion where staff artists made 632 bubble-within-a-bubble beads that have been tied together to create a hammock, playing on a theme Sanpitak explored in the aftermath of the 2011 flood in her native Thailand.

Sanpitak, 53, who finished high school in the United States, said the glass hammock is an extension of her Hanging by a Thread art work that featured printed material from relief bags delivered during the flood crisis. Fabric, that had been used to fashion cradles in which to carry babies or used as blankets, was cut and tied by the artist to create hammocks.

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A truss is a prefabricated rigid framework used for roof and floor construction. Designed by an engineer, its factory-built, and shipped directly to the building site. Most new homes are built with roof trusses because its efficient and expedient. But plan ahead--you need to order them weeks in advance from your local building company or truss manufacturer.

Parts of a roof truss

Wood members, formed by rafters and ceiling joists, form a roof truss. Think of a triangle--the three sections forming the triangle are the chords. The two upper chords, the rafters, form the upside-down V, and are attached to the bottom chord, the ceiling joist. The structural members, rafters and ceiling joists, of the truss are generally 2-by-4s or 2-by-6s. The diagonal connecting pieces that transfer the weight from one wood element to the next are connected by gussets, a flat metal or plywood plate.

Roof trusses

Roof trusses are designed to carry the load of both the roof and ceiling to the outside walls. Placement is spaced at 24 inches on center. Many types of trusses are available and can be fabricated to fit different roof styles. The W-type truss is the most common. As the name implies, the interior portion of the truss, or the webbing, is shaped in a W-pattern. Also popular: the king-post truss, (which has a limited span,) and the scissors-type truss used for architectural designs that call for sloped ceilings.

Advantages of roof trusses

Using a pre-assembled roof truss is a good framing option if you want to avoid the cumbersome task of cutting rafters and joists from scratch. It saves both time and labour. Trusses span greater distances than standard rafters, allowing for more flexibility in the interior planning of the home because fewer load-bearing walls are needed.

Floor trusses

In lieu of framing a floor with common floor joists, prefabricated floor trusses are available. Generally made from 2-inch-thick composite wood material, they are extremely strong and lightweight. They also span a wider distance than a traditional floor truss. The initial cost may be more per lineal foot, but youll save from faster installation and less wasted material.

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A new Code of Practice for the seismic design and installation of ceilings and in-ceiling services will reduce the risk of air conditioning, sprinkler systems, and suspended ceiling tiles from swinging and colliding during earthquakes and collapsing onto the heads of office workers.

During the Christchurch and Wellington earthquakes unrestrained and haphazardly planned and designed ceiling infrastructure smashed itself to pieces and sprinkler pipes burst. The BNZs Harbour Quays office block has only just been fully occupied again, 15 months after the 6.5 magnitude Wellington quake. The BNZ estimate repairs at $10 million. The flailing ceiling infrastructure can cause substantial structural weakening and was responsible for a number of Christchurch buildings being demolished, that otherwise might have been saved.

Suspended ceilings hide plumbing and fire sprinkler pipes, air conditioning units and ducts, electric and computer cabling systems and in older systems they are constructed from heavy fibrous plaster panels. There was no life lost or injury from falling infrastructure or heavy fibrous plaster ceiling tiles in either the Christchurch or Wellington quakes, but the potential risk remains high.

The executive officer for the Association of Walls and Ceiling Industries (AWCI), Mr John Parkin said the industry recognised the problem and has proactively worked with the major install and supply companies and BRANZ to establish a Code of Practice.

"There is a need for greater awareness from design and coordination through to final sign-off. If you are a designer, engineer, project manager, ceiling supplier, building contractor, installer, insurer, building owner or compliance official this is very important for your work," Mr Parkin said. Presentations on the draft code start in Hamilton this Wednesday (10am Waikato Stadium), Auckland (13 November, Alexandra Park), Wellington (19 November, Macs Function Centre) and Christchurch (20 November, Riccarton Park). The AWCI is looking for comment and submissions on the draft Code of Practice before the end of November.

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Access points (APs) are to the business network what wireless routers are to the home network, adding Wi-Fi to a wired setup.There are differences of course; home routers are also generally the wired hub of your network, and access points offer far more in the way of security and network-management features. And multiple APs can be managed with a controller for centralized administration by IT. For those whose networks hew toward the no-frills side, EnGenius' EAP1750H 802.11ac 3x3 Dual Band Ceiling-Mount Wireless Access Point/WDS ($399) is speedy, if somewhat light on the enterprise features I've seen in other other APs.

Specs The EAP1750H looks like a flying saucer. It's designed to be mounted on the ceiling, and could easily be mistaken for a smoke alarm. In fact,EnGenius strives to make the device indistinguishable from other common office-building appliances.The AP ships with a T-Rail mounting kit, a ceiling wall mount and screw kit, and a mounting bracket. There's also a 12-volt power adapter, RJ-45 cable, and installation guide in the box.

You should have little problem finding a place to mount this AP, since it's fairly compact. It's 6.4 inches in diameter and 1.6 inches tall,weighing in at 9.6 ounces. On the housing are five LEDS for power, Wi-Fi Protected Setup (WPS) activity, wireless bands, and network status. There's also a pinhole reset button on the top cover.

Thedual-band AP supports the latest wireless standard, 802.11ac at up to 450Mbps on the 2.4GHz band and up to 1300Mbps at 5GHz. You won't see those theoretical speeds in a real-world office environment, of course, particularly with the many devices that are typically connected at the 2.4GHz frequency, but the EAP1750H is still quite fast, as I'll show below.

Setup and Management Interface To set up the AP, I configured a laptop's network adapter with the same subnet as the AP. Next, I connected the RJ-45 cable from the laptop's network port to the Ethernet port on the AP. Finally, I pointed a browser to the default IP address of the AP and launched the management interface.

The management UI is bare bones; it has no graphics of any kind, just text and dropdown menus for settings. From here, you can set the device to one of three modes. You can run it as an Access Point that creates a WLAN from an existing network (the most common usage). You can put it in WDS AP mode, allowing administrators to use it as part of a Wireless Distribution System to maximize wireless coverage with other APs. The third choice is WDS Bridge mode, which lets you connect two LANs, as long as they aren't too far apart.

I used the AP operating mode. I created a WLAN and enabled both the 2.4GHz and 5GHz bands. I noticed that for the 5GHz band, you can't set up 802.11ac-only mode. The only options are 802.11a/b, 802.11a-only, 802.11n-only, or 802.11ac/n. It isn't much of an issue, however, since many wireless clients still don't support 802.11ac. Chances are you're going to have at least some legacy hardware in your shop for years to come.

The EAP1750H has is a good mix of enterprise encryption options, including 802.1x RADIUS and WPA/WPA2 Enterprise, along with alot of common AP capabilities, including client isolation. When enabled, this disallows clients connected to the AP from communicating with one another for both security and performance reasons. Another common AP feature that the EAP1750Hpossesses is the ability to limit the number of clients that can connect to the network to prevent performance from getting bogged down.

You can also use this EnGenius AP to run a wireless scan for all other neighboring access points and use the information it returns to set the EAP1750H for use on channels that aren't packed with your neighbors' APs. This is a highly useful feature, but it's also a very common one, as are many of this AP's capabilities. It also includes VLAN support (needed for logically segmenting your wireless network for groups of users), SNMP compatibility, VPN pass-through, QoS, and MAC address filtering.

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