Wire mesh

SafetyCoil wire-mesh fabric is a flexible round weave used as divider guards, securing restricted work areas, and as a barrier against unwanted objects. The material’s flow-through design allows observation of moving parts and workspaces. The panels protect objects from impeding the scissoring motion of a lift while an operator in the basket is rising and descending. The mesh is available in stainless, galvanized, and aluminized steel; steel spray; and nylon-coated galvanized steel.

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Ready. Aim. Fire Sprinklers

Flexible sprinkler connections play a role in a fast-track office fit-out.

Boston-based Leggat McCall Properties is a developer, property manager, and asset manager. When it came to fitting out its new offices, the company saw a prime opportunity to apply its best ideas and substantiate their effectiveness.

One of the benefits of using FlexHead sprinklers was ease of installation. "That's multiple guys that you don't have up on ladders, getting in the way when you're trying to do other stuff quickly," a project manager said.

Its goals were to challenge traditional construction standards, compress the conventional 10-to-12-week schedule to 15 days, and do it all within 10% of the costs of traditional methods, without compromising quality.

"These goals were achieved through good pre-construction [planning] and precise implementation that embraced new technologies, green development techniques, aggressive benchmarks, and built-in flexibility for future reconfigurations," said Eric Sheffels, Leggat McCall Properties president and chief investment officer.

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