She moved into Seattle's aforementioned Denny Park Apartments,
built through a five-year, $555 million initiative known as Green Communities that seeks to build more than 8,500 homes for low-income people in 23 states.
Buildings that breathe: green construction is coming of age
Completed in August 2004 and located in Marunouchi, Japan's most prestigious office district, this 30-story building, designed by Mitsubishi Jissho Sekkei and
built by a Takenaka Corporation-Taisei Corporation joint venture, combines office and retail space.
Is your building green? Environmentally friendly office buildings in Tokyo
Although not a certified Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design, or LEED, which is developed for higher performance, it was
built with high-performance design in mind and has many energy-saving features.
Smart design: two schools prove that style, energy savings and innovative layouts can all be present in your next school building
If there were any doubts about the durability of what had been
built, they were happy to invite anyone to drive their car into the new cottage, with no concern for the walls; they're as tough as you can get!
Cob cottage in Montford: natural building is a community affair
Molds are designed and
built to minimize cycle time, offer top reliability, and simplify and/or reduce set-up time.
Injection molds
Still, it's important to note that green requirements don't always get
built into plans up front--and even when they are, there's often not enough overseeing to make sure they're being followed.
Going green: for the first green, soon-to-be-LEED-certified law school in the country, details matter. (Facilities/Construction)
Built on an island site for developer Frogmore, its north face lies flush with Fenchurch Street's long thoroughfare.
Tradition and innovation John McAslan + Partners
* cores can be
built into the mold at the same time that the mold is fabricated, allowing precise locating of the cores within the mold (prevents finning and locating dimensional inaccuracies);
Direct shell sand rapid prototyping: from CAD to casting in days
That means that if the Petronas Towers were
built here, the tops of the buildings could sway about one full meter (3 feet) in each direction!
World's tallest buildings
Los Angeles contractor John Picard, who's responsible for some of the country's most expensive homes,
built his own experimental house with steel framing made of recycled cars and appliances.
Tomorrow's house
Cast iron railings were
built so residents could peer below and see the elaborate engineering network of valves, sluice gates, chambers and pumps, and the way that Roman Aqueduct modeled system used gravity to pull water down hill, and along the sloped wall below.
Curtain goes up on $28m Harlem theater
Located in downtown Boise, the Front 5 Building was originally
built in the 1970s.
The Green scene In Idaho
The guidelines for building in an environmentally friendly way are summarized in the Healthy
Built Homes checklist with over 150 possible strategies.
What is the NC HealthyBuilt Homes Program?
Molds are designed on Unigraphics or Pro-Engineer CAD software and
built using machining or EDM manufacturing methods.
Injection molds
With a run down, antiquated school building that's poorly
built (not to mention architecturally uninteresting), the problems are obvious.
Can this school be saved? As schools age, administrators face two options: Raze and replace or renovate and restore. Here's why fixing the old may beat building anew