Energy-management lighting strategies keep costs down at Ontario’s Rogers Centre

Rogers Centre, home to the MLB Toronto Blue Jays and the Toronto Argonauts of the Canadian Football League, wanted to gain control of its lighting energy use.

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Energy-efficient elevator Aids retrofit of Fraunhofer sustainable energy center

ThyssenKrupp Elevator contributed one synergy 300 S seven-stop elevator to the Fraunhofer Center for Sustainable Energy Systems (CSE) Building Technology Showcase, a first-of-its-kind research and demonstration building...

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LEED management software streamlines process at Denver Zoo

The Denver Zoo’s new Toyota Elephant Passage project, which will use renewable energy, recycled water, natural daylight, and other green design and construction practices, has used Greengrade’s LEED Management Software...

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Wall panels at Minnesota school provide a natural look

When the design team DLR Group, Minneapolis, was ready to recommend wall panels for an Edison charter school in chilly Duluth, Minn., it wanted something that could be easily applied to a steel frame and that mimicked the...

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Stained glass windows generate electricity in Seoul government building

The Human Resource Development Center of the Seoul City government in South Korea uses Dye Solar Cell (DSC) stained glass windows to generate clean, renewable electricity from sunlight.

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AIA: Commercial Flooring
The colorful ribboned flooring at Toronto’s Corus Quay mimics the iconic corkscr
The colorful ribboned flooring at Toronto’s Corus Quay mimics the iconic corkscr
Discussions of commercial flooring tend to focus on the floor covering or finish material. This is hardly surprising, since the covering is the part of the floor that stakeholders see, interact with, and care about most. The...
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AIA: A clear difference, new developments in load-bearing glass
The use of light load-bearing glass to create transparent stairs, floors, and ot
The use of light load-bearing glass to create transparent stairs, floors, and ot
Glass has taken on new life in recent building years. Long valued for its transparency and lightness, glass is now also being considered for its structural and protective capabilities. Beyond the technique known as...
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AIA CONTINUING EDUCATION: Reroofing primer, in-depth advice from the experts
Building owners must plan ahead for roof replacement to avoid emergency leak rem
Building owners must plan ahead for roof replacement to avoid emergency leak rem
No building owner wants to be caught unprepared by catastrophic roof failure. Emergency roof replacements tend to be more expensive than planned ones, and damage to interiors may mean unrecovered costs and detrimental...
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AIA Course: New Developments in Concrete Construction
AIA: New Developments in Concrete Construction
AIA: New Developments in Concrete Construction
Concrete has long been a reliable building material for commercial and institutional projects. Yet recent trends, including the growth in hospitality and urban rental project starts, as well as mixed-use towers and transit-...
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Energy performance starts at the building envelope
AIA Rainscreens BD+C DEcember 2011
AIA Rainscreens BD+C DEcember 2011
Until recently, it has been lighting, mechanical, and control system upgrades which have received the most attention in the green building movement. At long last, the industry is now recognizing building enclosures as a long...
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2012 White Paper: High-Performance Reconstructed Buildings: The 99% Solution
Making the Most of the Reconstruction Boom Reconstruction in its many forms—tenant improvements, retail fitouts, adaptive reuse, historic preservation, gut rehab, and so on—is keeping many design and construction firms...
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Codes harvest rainwater
The topic of water shortages is nothing new, as cities around the globe struggle with drought, water quality, supply constraints, and failing infrastructures. However, the idea of new plumbing codes and design standards...
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Hardening the Perimeter: The Role of the Guard Booth, Security Solutions and Best Practices
Guard booths, stations and shelters are defense strategy linchpins, becoming increasingly integral to perimeter defense planning. Before evaluating the efficacy of different guard booth configurations, and before selecting a...
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Gain greater agility and profitability with ArchiCAD BIM software
From the company that brought you Construction Computing Magazine’s 2011 BIM Product of the Year ArchiCAD 15, the “Get There Faster with ArchiCAD” whitepaper examines five critical areas to explore before making your final...
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2011 Zero and Net-Zero Energy Buildings + Homes
Download Complete White Paper Download Introduction Download Chapters 1-4Defining Net-Zero Energy Buildings
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One World Trade Center goes to new height of sustainability
Soaring to a height of 1,776 feet (540-meter), the 2.6-million-square-foot (242,
Soaring to a height of 1,776 feet (540-meter), the 2.6-million-square-foot (242,
Soaring to a height of 1,776 feet (540-meter), the 2.6-million-sf (242,000-square-meter) building soon to become the new One World Trade Center in the lower Manhattan district of New York City is a marvel of design and...
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Sarnafil roofing system just what the doctor ordered
Sarnafil membrane now protects St. John’s Regional Medical Center in Oxnard, Cal
Sarnafil membrane now protects St. John’s Regional Medical Center in Oxnard, Cal
As any doctor knows, a band-aid sometimes just isn’t enough, and that was the case with the roof on the St. John’s Regional Medical Center in Oxnard, Calif. After extensive repairs to a leaking roof assembly, it was...
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Educational facilities see long-term benefits of fiber cement cladding
The design for Red Hawk Elementary School stems from the desire to create a vibr
The design for Red Hawk Elementary School stems from the desire to create a vibr
A 71,000-sf elementary school was recently constructed in Erie, Colo.; Red Hawk Elementary was developed as an addition to the St. Vrain Valley School District. According to Ken Field, principal architect at RB+B Architects...
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Moline Public Library uses copper as an exterior building material
OPN Architects knew using copper as a building material for the Moline Public Li
OPN Architects knew using copper as a building material for the Moline Public Li
As OPN Architects, Cedar Rapids, Iowa, set out to design a new library for the residents of Moline, Ill., they acknowledged the library as an institution has evolved from a traditional space reserved for individual reading...
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Hawaiian architecture firm chooses FRP trellis system over traditional materials
Strongwell’s products were used by Plas-Tech Ltd., a Hawaiian fabricator, for an
Strongwell’s products were used by Plas-Tech Ltd., a Hawaiian fabricator, for an
Strongwell’s products were used by Plas-Tech Ltd., a Honolulu, Hawaii fabricator, for an architectural trellis overlooking Waikiki, Honolulu, Hawaii. The trellis sits on top of the Waikiki Shopping Plaza located at the...
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