Creating a Log Cabin in SolidWorks - Part 10: Creating Roofing
This part demonstrates how to create roofing for your log cabin. View the blog at:http://blogs.solidworks.com/teacher/?p=5166.
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Summary: A roofing cost estimator or a roofing cost calculator will give you a current estimate of roofing costs for new homes or remodeling.
One of the most expensive costs of building a new home or remodeling an old home is the cost of roofing.Roofing cost is based on the cost of roofing materials, roof pitch, and labor.
Roofing is measured and estimated in squares. A square of roofing is the amount of roofing material required to cover 100 square feet (10 feet X 10 feet). That isn't as simple as it sounds when you have multiple roof pitches and dormers, unless you are a whiz in geometry.
I advise having either your supplier or your roofing contractor do this estimate. They wont be exact either, but may come a little closer than you will, though you might want to make your own calculations and see how they compare.
NOTE: At the bottom of the page you will find a roofing cost calculator.
With the roofing calculator you can estimate the cost of a new roof for a new home or the replacement roof cost for an older home. It gives you a rough estimate that you can use to compare with estimates from roofing contractors.
Understanding how roof pitch and shingle weight affect the cost of roofing is important.
Weight:
The cost of shingles or other roofing materials increases as their quality (weight) increases.
The cost of the labor to install shingles or other roofing materials also increases as their weight increases.
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No part of your home is more important than the roof to enhance the look outside and protect everything inside. If youre seeing signs of wear and tear on roofing shingles, noticing drips or peeling paint in your rooms or seeing water spots on the ceiling, its time to think about a roof replacement.
During a free in-home consultation, an expert from The Home Depot will tell you about our different roofing styles and show actual samples of roofing shingles. Well explain how a roof install works and recommend a solution for your budget.
You can trust The Home Depot to install roofing correctly. We handpick a roofing contractor and crew who meet our high standards for experience, know-how and customer service. We screen and do background checks on all of our roofing contractors and installers to make sure they are licensed as required and insured before sending them to your home. We know a roof replacement is an important investment and we make sure its done right. The Home Depot also offers credit and/or project loan financing options for your roof installation.
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GREEN BAY - Dozens of dogs at a Green Bay animal shelter won't be in danger from the cold, thanks to community donations.
A heat exchanger at the Bay Area Humane Society broke Thursday and will take weeks to replace. As a result, the temperature in the main kennel started dropping.
But residents and businesses stepped in.
Friday, Robinson Heating and Cooling installed a temporary fix to keep the animals warm for now. And the owner of Sidelines Sports Bar this afternoon donated $3,000 toward the cost of replacing the exchanger.
"We were blessed with another Packer game, so might as well give little bit back," Sidelines Sports Bar owner Kevin Burkel said.
Shelter officials say they can't thank the community enough for donations that included hundreds of blankets.
"It's been awesome, Lori Nachtwey of the shelter said. We are overflowing with blankets."
Among the blanket donations were 200 Friday morning from St. Vincent Hospital.
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With a dual mission to restore King Street Station to its 1906 grandeur while adding modern structural and sustainable upgrades, the project team behind this $55-million renovation and modernization project delivered a transportation hub to Seattle that respects the city's history and reflects its modern sensibilities.
A landmark on the National Register of Historic Places, the team restored the original character of the multimodal train station, including the rehabilitation of the iconic 12-story clock tower as well as the repair and restoration of the main waiting room. Work within the waiting room included restoration of the original 45-ft-high ornamental plaster ceilings and halls, the terrazzo floors inlaid with mosaic tile and the historic operable windows.
In addition to the historic elements, the Seattle-based team, led by architectural firm ZGF Architects and general contractor Sellen Construction, installed seismic upgrades and met LEED-Platinum standards. "We took this historic structure and made it an outstanding sustainable building," says Tim Williams, associate partner and King Street Station project architect at ZGF. "A city that touts itself as being green now has a portal into the city that's a leader in sustainability."
As part of its green strategy, the team installed a geothermal well field and heat pumps, making it one of the first projects in downtown Seattle to do so. The geothermal system also allowed for a reduction in the size of the building's heating and cooling system. The wells allow the building to perform 40% above ASHRAE baseline.
While installing new utilities and the geothermal wells during the first phase of the project, the team came across granite boulders from an adjacent building's old foundation. The foundation granite was a perfect match for the exterior granite originally used in the walls, much of which was removed during previous modernizations. Utilizing the same means and methods used to create the original granite blocks 100 years ago, the reclaimed granite boulders were cut and fabricated into new wall panels for the exterior finishes.
In addition to restoring the building's windows, the team took the opportunity to incorporate them into its sustainability strategy. All of the sashes and trims from the original 1906 windows were removed, refinished and reinstalled using the remaining original glass. The team restored 74 window openings and 199 sashes and replicated 15 window openings and 33 sashes.
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Posted: 4:00 pm Fri, January 3, 2014 By BrianJohnson Finance and Commerce Tags: BWBR Architects, Cass Gilbert, HGA, HGA Architects and Engineers, JE Dunn Construction, Minnesota Department of Administration, Minnesota State Capitol, Minnesota State Capitol Preservation Commission, Mortenson Construction, Senate office building, State Office Building 4:00 pm Fri, January 3, 2014
Renovation work on the State Capitol is shifting from interior wall demolition and abatement to roof, mechanical and electrical upgrades. (Staff photo: Bill Klotz)
Construction in and around the State Capitol complex looks to heat up in 2014.
For starters, the $272.7 million makeover of the 108-year-old Minnesota State Capitol is transitioning into a new phase, as work moves from interior wall demolition and abatement to roof, mechanical and electrical upgrades.
And planning is moving forward for a proposed $90 million Senate office building project just north of the Capitol, despite a lawsuit seeking to stop the work on the grounds that the project didnt go through the proper legislative channels.
As for the Capitol, the Minnesota State Capitol Preservation Commission is scheduled to meet Jan. 21 to approve work packages 2 and 2A, which include roof repair and replacement, mechanical and electrical equipment installation, and removal of concrete floors slabs.
Roof repairs are expected to start in May, said Wayne Waslaski, director of the Minnesota Department of Administrations Real Estate and Construction Services division.
We are doing some lead abatement work at the moment, Waslaski said. For the most part, demolition has been completed.
The multiphase project, scheduled to be completed in late 2016 or early 2017, addresses a host of deficiencies in the Cass Gilbert-designed building, including outdated and inefficient systems, crumbling stone, and lack of accessibility.
Planning is moving forward for a proposed $90 million Senate office building project just north of the Capitol. (Submitted rendering)
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The AT&T San Diego Data Center at 7337 Trade St. in Mira Mesa sold for $134.5 million in December, according to CBRE brokerage. The buyer was Carter Validus Mission Critical REIT of Tampa and the seller, AT&T, which leased back the 499,402-squre-foot facility. It was the fourth largest office transaction of 2013, according to Cassidy Turley brokerage.
Five years after San Diego Countys office market troughed, rents, occupancy and construction are recovering at a slow, not always steady, pace.
The most-watched indicator is vacancy rates they were down to 14.7 percent in the fourth quarter, compared with 15.2 percent a year earlier and 18 percent at the end of the recession in 2009.
That slow climb from a deep hole is not a bad thing, considering the office markets history of boom-and-bust cycles.
The scrutiny on these developments is much more in play than its ever been in the past, said Duncan Todd, senior vice president of Cassidy Turleys office division in San Diego.
Other benchmarks revealed conflicting trends:
The region ranked 10th nationally in posting a 4.3 percent rental increase and is now halfway back from the bottom reached in late 2011.
Only 887,000 square feet was leased countywide, down 29 percent from 2012 a horrible bottom line, said Cassidy Turley broker Brett Ward.
Nearly 1.7 million square feet of office space is under construction, 81 percent more than at this time last year.
The five biggest office sale transactions sold for a combined $772.9 million, including the latest, the AT&T San Diego Data Center in Mira Mesa, which closed escrow last month for $134.5 million.
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One proposed bonding project under fire is the Senate office building.
A provision for the project was contained in last years tax bill, exactly where it should not have been, argued former St. Cloud lawmaker Jim Knoblach, who has filed suit, claiming the language is unconstitutional.
Senate DFL leaders are sensitive about the project, recently sending out a fact sheet about the office building.
In it, its stressed that only part of the proposed $90 million price tag, $63 million, would be spent on the building. About $27 million would be spent on tunnel-level parking for people with disabilities and on a separate parking ramp to serve the Capitol complex and public.
A mock-up of the proposed building, for some reason, brings to mind a ships superstructure perhaps the determined lines of a tugboat.
The buildings glassy facade gently arcs, and though old sea dogs may convulse when spotting white shimmers in the glass, it wouldnt be ice but reflections of the state Capitol across University Avenue.
One criticism is the proposed building does not aesthetically fit into the Capitol campus. Thats in the eye of the beholder. Anyway, unless Capitol architect Cass Gilbert championed a form of aesthetic vivisection, I-94 doesnt exactly fit either, and that didnt stop anyone.
The proposed building, of course, is political catnip.
In a fundraising appeal, Annette Meeks, of the conservative Freedom Foundation of Minnesota, depicted the proposal as the handiwork of liberal legislators, now controlling all of state government, who snuck a pet project into a bill at the eleventh hour.
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