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Chinese Military Hackers Charged with Disrupting U.S. Solar Market

Green Building Law Update

A grand jury in the Western District of Pennsylvania has indicted Chinese military hackers for computer hacking, economic espionage and other offenses directed at a solar products manufacturer in America. manufacturing and installation wings of the domestic solar industry as they confront trade aggression from China.”

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Expanding the exterior footprint

Construction Specifier

Spaces using landscaping have become a matter of how to improve public health and cities are focusing incentives to create healthier public spaces are becoming even more crucial to collective health outcomes of these spaces. Architects are often looking for ways to create or enhance outdoor spaces in commercial buildings.

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Lightweight Concrete Sculptural Building

Natural Building

Later, additions and roofs were added made of lightweight volcanic aggregate. South-facing windows and an overhang provide passive solar heat in the wintertime. All roofs are masonry vaults with shell motifs. The roof is the key to long building life, so it needs to be self-supporting, roundie-curvie — and not flat.

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Green Home Building and Sustainable Architecture: Building with.

Natural Building

An idea whose time seems to have arrived is the use of stockpiled shipping containers as modular units for building homes. Several architects and builders are taking advantage of this surplus to recycle the containers. The finished units have one or two walls removed and include the necessary support columns and beam enhancements.

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Installing Value - Contractor Magazine

Contractor Magazine

But what follows is an overview on high-efficiency water heaters, how they work, and the advantages and potential pitfalls of adding them to your business. “You cannot use the existing masonry or single wall metal flue. Power venting means that condensing water heaters have fans. Residential Plumbing. Wastewater.