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Expanding the exterior footprint

Construction Specifier

In fact, officials of New York City are beginning to re-examine its zoning to ensure green spaces and parks are accessible and equitably distributed throughout the urban landscape. It also creates a new building zone called the ‘mid-doors,’ a term coined recently by Transsolar’s Erik Olsen, in his series “What is Indoors?”

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Custom Home: A Modern Design of Light and Magic

Pro Builder

Built on the site of the client’s boyhood home, the design borrows from that past while establishing a modern future for the client and his family, while also applying lessons in creative ways to manage restrictive municipal zoning requirements and daylight access rules, with sometimes surprising results.

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Revit 2017 - New Features and Enhancements

Revit OpEd

When you export a walkthrough, if Visual Style is set to Rendering, the Autodesk Raytracer rendering settings specified for the walkthrough's view are used for export. Steel Connections for Revit - This is similar conceptually to what has been done for MEP Fabrication. Rendering - The change over is complete, Mental Ray is out.

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COVER STORY: 2013 Business Facilities Rankings Report – Metro And Global Rankings

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As we detailed in our March/April 2012 cover story, Baton Rouge (known as the Creative Capital of the South) has attracted development studios including Electronic Arts, Firebrand Games, Crawfish Games and the international Academy Award-winning visual effects studio Pixomondo.

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Texas Incentives and Workforce Development Guide

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Moving Image Industry Incentive Program: Provides grants to promote film, video game and visual effects industry growth in Texas. Industrial Revenue Bonds: Tax-Exempt Industrial Revenue Bonds are designed to provide tax-exempt financing to finance land and depreciable property for eligible industrial or manufacturing projects.

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2021 Pro Builder Top 100 Products

Pro Builder

LG’s 24-inch Styler, a steam clothing care system, refreshes clothing between dry cleanings, reduces odors, and is safe to use on more than 15 fabrics, including wool, sequins, and linens. The Stair Supplies Design Kit from Viewrail boasts it can deliver floating stairs more affordably than a local fabricator. Steam clothing care / LG.

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State by State Incentives Guide

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Enterprise Zone Credit or Exemption: The Alabama Enterprise Zone Act (Act. The program provides state and local tax incentives and non-tax incentives to businesses and industries located within Alabama’s Enterprise Zones. May not have closed or reduced employment elsewhere in Alabama in order to expand into an enterprise zone.

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