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Building Trends: An Old Material Becomes New Again

Viewpoint Construction Technology

However, this concept has gained some traction recently with architects around the world in cities like Chicago, London, Minneapolis and Vancouver designing wooden high-rises. In Portland, Oregon, home of the Viewpoint headquarters, a condo building recently caught our attention. Interested in green construction?

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2022 BALA Projects: Kitchens That Cook

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Square footage: 390 sf Builder/Remodeler (entrant): New Urban Home Builders, Grand Rapids Architect + Interior Designer: Deidre Interiors, Grand Rapids Green Verifier: GreenEdge of Michigan , Holland, Mich. Green Verifier/Rater: Moffet Energy Modeling , Tualatin, Ore. Photographer: Geoff Shirley Photography. had a vision.

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FEATURE STORY: The Story Of Storage

Buisness Facilities Contributed Content

Large-scale data centers are known to use the amount of electricity equivalent to small towns and, despite many greening initiatives, some centers release a significant amount of air pollution in the form of diesel exhaust. Greene And The Greening Of Data Centers. Let’s recap a few of his most notable prognostications.

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FEATURE STORY: The Cultural Roots Of High-Tech Growth

Buisness Facilities Contributed Content

Seattle, Austin, Philadelphia and Chicago. Based on this criteria, their top 25 list, included a number of mid-sized locations like Boulder, Fort Collins, Loveland, Colorado Springs, and Grand Junction in Colorado; Cheyenne, WY; Corvallis and Bend in Oregon; Huntsville, AL; and Provo and Orem in Utah. billion in equity.

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Feature Story: 2016 Economic Development Awards

Buisness Facilities Contributed Content

The wind turbines operating at Buffalo’s green energy complex on Lake Erie generate enough electricity to power roughly 15,000 homes; the turbines are under contract to a local utility, Constellation Energy Resources. 3 Texas all exceeded 75 on the Index, followed by Maryland, Delaware, DC, Oregon, Arizona, Pennsylvania and Georgia.

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Cover Story: 2014 Business Facilities Rankings Report

Business Facilities

Most of the states that were clobbered by the housing market collapse, including Florida, Nevada, California and Oregon, made it into the top 10 in our Employment Recovery Leaders ranking. They were joined by Rust Belt giants Michigan and Ohio, which rode the wave of a resurgent U.S. automotive industry. Far West U.S. Great Lakes U.S. -

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