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Zaha Hadid Architects residential development takes a page from a classic Bradbury tale

BD+C

In Ray Bradbury’s classic time travel short story “A Sound of Thunder” a metal path floats six inches above the earth to keep all of the visitors to the past from disturbing the environment and altering the future.

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Structural Audit Definition | Structural Audit of Residential Building | Why Structural Audit | Need of Structural Audit | When to do Structural Audit

CivilJungle

Structural Audit of Residential Building. Any residential building whose life has exceeded the age of 30 years Structura l Audit is done on that building. Structural Audit of a residential building is needed in order for maintenance and repairs of an existing residential building for prolonging its life.

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SME house builders demand action from “anti-building” Tories

Construction Enquirer

The letter signed by 200 firms highlights the “existential threat to the survival of businesses posed by the increasingly anti-development policy environment.” Sadly, the current operating environment and the Government’s anti-building stance makes it virtually impossible for today’s generation of SMEs to succeed.

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Getting the basics right (for residential contractors): It isn’t complicated

Construction Marketing Ideas

Adams Hudson reminds us his Contractors’ Sales and Marketing Inside r , that the basics behind AEC marketing — at least for the business-to-consumer residential sector — are quite simple. Michael Stone has some worthy resources to help out in the residential sales. Many leads and sales, but no money.

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Three interconnected solutions for 'saving' urban centers

BD+C

By creating choice in environment. Office to residential repositioning at 1 St. Office-to-residential conversion could be a way to repopulate our downtowns, while also allowing for a broader mix of people and new degree of vibrancy. Signal House, Washington, D.C. Photo courtesy Gensler So how can workplace design support this?

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Wipe Out Zika Virus Carrying Mosquitoes with Pesticides

Green Building Law Update

but there have been travel associated cases. the sprayers dispense very fine aerosol droplets that stay aloft and kill flying mosquitoes on contact), typically less than 3 ounces per acre, which minimizes exposure and risks to people and the environment. Virgin Islands, and America Samoa. Read the label. And then, do the right thing (.

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Putting 9 senior living market trends into perspective

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Multifamily Housing Senior Living Design Apartments In a previous article , I laid out seven lessons that I’ve learned from more than 40 years of planning and designing senior living environments in the U.S. The hotelier applied the business traveler model to a senior living prototype and began building them in communities across the U.S.,