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Overcladding for old masonry façades: why it is important to think performance first

Construction Specifier

From Portland, Maine to Portland, Oregon, many cities are contending with government and school buildings from the last century, built with solid masonry bearing walls. In this way, overcladding shares characteristics with rainscreen systems, and overclad enclosures can be considered as rainscreens in design and construction evaluation.

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Geothermal ?Big Tent? Event to take Place August 16 | Geothermal.

Contractor Magazine

Residential Plumbing. Green Geothermal. Green Mechanical Awards. Home > Green > Geothermal > Geothermal “Big Tent” Event to take Place August 16. The “big tent” even takes place Thursday, August 16 at Oregon Dairy, 2900 Oregon Pike, Lititz, PA. Green Products - August 2008.

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Two Week Natural Building Intensive

Natural Building

Learn skills, techniques, and design theory to create your own beautiful, durable, energy-efficient home from local and site-harvested materials. We will also give you the theoretical knowledge to design a regionally appropriate passive solar home. Three meals a day will be prepared on site, largely from local organic ingredients.

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Kengo Kuma, the architect behind Tokyo’s new and controversial Olympic National Stadium

Construction Test

I’ve even managed to arrange a stay at the luxurious, Kuma-designed Capitol Tokyu Hotel in Akasaka with its arresting and unmistakably Japanese lobby and standalone, pavilion-like restaurant. It could be argued that Kuma is undiscriminating in the commissions he accepts for his firm – would Frank Gehry agree to design a cake shop?

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State by State Incentives Guide

Buisness Facilities Contributed Content

TVA Economic Development Loan Fund: A multimillion-dollar revolving loan program designed to stimulate investment and job creation in the TVA region. 573), was enacted in 1987 to stimulate business and industrial growth in designated areas of the state that are considered economically depressed. In December 2002, the former U.S.

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Michael G. Smith Writes about the Value of Cob

Natural Building

I attended my first natural building workshop in Oregon in 1993. Earthen materials have excellent thermal mass properties which lend themselves to efficient passive solar designs, reducing energy use for heating and cooling over the long run. Find out more at The Cob Research Institute ).

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STATE INCENTIVES GUIDE

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ENTERPRISE ZONE CREDIT: To stimulate growth in depressed areas of the state, Alabama offers certain tax credit incentives to business that locate or expand within a designated enterprise zone. SALES & USE TAX ABATEMENTS: Taxes on construction-related transactions, pollution control devices are exempt from sales and use taxes.

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