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The construction industry is built upon the innovations of new building techniques, tools, and materials, and inventors can protect their intellectual property rights by filing for U.S. patents.

Most construction patents are utility patents, but some construction inventions can also be protected...

“SIPs and IMPs” may sound like a silly kid’s game, but structural insulated panels (SIPs) and insulated metal panels (IMPs) are far from child’s play when it comes to construction as they are popular building materials used to insulate structures.

While they may sound the same, SIPs and IMPs have...

One of the modern marvels of living in the United States is that we can sit down at the holidays and share meals of fresh food from across the country with menus featuring everything from Virginia hams to Maine lobsters to Wisconsin cheese to California vegetables to Florida fruit to Texas beef.

While threats of recession loom around the world, the cold chain global market is not cooling off with double-digit growth projected over the next decade as more and more products require cold environments.

Green Span Profiles American-made insulated metal panels (IMPs) are impressive before they even leave the Texas facility where they are crafted by a continuously poured-in-place process that binds interior and exterior corrosion-resistant steel facings to a polyisocyanurate insulating foam core.

Builders get the best of both worlds when using insulated metal panels (IMPs) for their roofing solutions as these standing-seam roof panels offer both high-performance and design choices.

It’s no secret in the building industry that the cost of materials has soared over the past several years and current inflation rates continue to put upward pressure on overall construction costs.

The American Institute of Architects (AIA) mid-year Consensus Construction Forecast released in July projects that construction spending on nonresidential construction will increase 9.1 percent this year and another 6 percent in 2023.

One of the big attractions of insulated metal wall panels and roofing systems is that their typical life span can double some of the competing material.

Insulated metal panels (IMPs) can deliver a much longer service life than shingles, single-play, and built up roofing.

When designing and constructing buildings today extreme weather must be taken into consideration.

Just this summer, for example, the United States experienced a sweltering heat wave across the country plus four separate flooding events that each qualify as 1-in-1,000 year rainstorms.