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The goal of 'Whole Building' Design is to create a successful high-performance building by applying an integrated design and team approach to the project during the planning and programming phases.
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Building Resilience
These resource pages explore different aspects of resilience management to control and help reduce the rapidly increasing costs of manmade and natural hazards and ensure that civil infrastructure exhibits a high degree of resilience.
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Space Types
| Child Care The Child Care space types, described herein, are the facilities required for child care services permitted within federal facilities. The intention of high quality federal child care is to allow employees to respond to their dual work and family responsibilities effectively to the benefit of both families and the government as employer. |
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| Courthouse: Courtroom Courtrooms are spaces used to conduct formal judicial proceedings. A courtroom is combined with Judicial Chambers and related support spaces such as Jury Suites to form a court/chamber "Set". |
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Continuing Education
| Corrosion Prevention and Control of Utilities and Buried Structures Utility systems and other buried structures exhibit significant deterioration and are approaching the end of their service life. This course will cover the corrosion mechanisms associated with utilities and buried structures and methods for corrosion prevention and control. |
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