Product Spotlight: STRUCTURAL RETAINING STARS

Our Structural Star Building Retaining Washers (Structural Retaining Stars) are domestically manufactured in the USA. Often referred to as seismic earthquake washers or Century Star Washers, our washers have an architecturally accurate historic pattern, and are used as anchor plates or wall washers that are connected to a tie rod or bolt on exterior walls of masonry buildings for structural reinforcement, used to brace the masonry wall against lateral bowing

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Product Spotlight: TOGGLER® Brand SNAPTOGGLE® Heavy-Duty Hollow Wall Anchors

TOGGLER® Brand SNAPTOGGLE® Heavy-Duty Hollow Wall Anchors carry twice the load in a smaller hole than standard anchors. Other benefits of using our Toggler® Bolt Anchors are that they are reusable in the same hole just by removing the screw without losing the anchor in the wall, it is a simple one-person installation and the metal channel pushes aside any insulation behind the wall.

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Boston Construction News: The 8 most significant Boston developments under construction right now

This map plots the eight most significant major projects under construction in Boston as of the end of August. The octet includes what will be New England's tallest primarily residential tower; a vast complex that will contain practice facilities for the Bruins and the Celtics; and Harvard University's single, biggest footprint outside of Cambridge.

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