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New concrete vaulted floor suggests path to cutting carbon emissions

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The multidisciplinary team has completed a full-scale demo of the floor, built inside a Cambridge University Civil Engineering Department facility, and hopes the innovation will be adopted by the construction industry to reduce its carbon emissions. Demo shows minimum 60 per cent reduction in emissions. The demo floor measures 4.5

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A House Sheathed in Metal and Oriented for Energy Efficiency Is a Brooklyn Family’s Upstate Haven

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Architect Alessandro Ronfini of Demo Architects designs an award-winning passive house using a prefab-panel structure cloaked in dark galvalume. Photo: Matt Dutile Alessandro, a Passive House designer at his own firm, Demo Architects, went about creating "a version of a gable house that a child would draw," he says.

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Metro Reports: NW 23rd and Marshall, Zeal Lofts, 2251 SE 92nd, and more

Next Portland

Stormwater is proposed to be handled by a medium-to-large drywell located on the NE portion of the site (pending appropriate infiltration rates verified by testing). A project at 1220 N Hayden Meadows Dr has been submitted for building permit review: PDOX PS – new grocery store and asscoaited site work.

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Apartheid-era demolition rubble becomes part of rebuilding in Cape Town's District Six

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Works they have created so far were shown during Design Week South Africa at Cape Town gallery Demo Projects, in an exhibition titled Clay, Library, Land Studies. Work by Khan informed the use of the building site's clay "When we started excavating our site to build the foundations for this library, we unearthed this clay," said Melvill. "We

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Don’t demo this sad trio

Architecture Here and There

The location had been chosen, according to city records and a report by WPRI Channel 12 News, as the site for a six-story Smart Hotel, with 116 rooms and internal parking for an unstated number of vehicles. The three were purchased by 217 Angell Investments II LLC on Oct. 4 of this year for $4.5 The firm was registered with the city on Sept.

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The Art of Upcycling: How RDG Planning & Design Transformed Reclaimed Wood into a Stunning Staircase

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In this case, it would have been easier to come in and simply demo the space. Achieving that within an existing site without having odd transitions is rare. RDG Planning & Design How did the context of your project — environmental, social or cultural — influence your design? It was the impetus of the project.

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