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August 11,2010Hotel construction spending expanded faster than any other building market in 2006, helped by destination hotels in Las Vegas and other resort areas, as well as by business and consumer travel in large metro markets. This year, building activity will stay at year-end 2006 levels with job site spending rising just enough to cover project cost inflation.
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August 11,2010A former warehouse on Portland's Willamette River, which was redeveloped as RiverEast Center, has been awarded LEED Gold certification. The team of architects and engineers at Group Mackenzie transformed a 1951 concrete warehouse (right, top) into a boathouse for public use and a fully occupied office building for 250 creative professionals, seven businesses, and two nonprofits.
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August 11,2010Most of us look at shipping containers and see … er, shipping containers. But not the designers of the traveling Nomadic Museum. Architect Shigeru Ban, of Tokyo, and San Francisco-based Gensler used 152 shipping containers stacked in a checkerboard pattern four containers high to form walls for the three-gallery museum.
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August 11,2010April 30 was the day for the Construction Specifications Institute to post the fourth draft of the MasterFormat on its Web site (www.csinet.org/technic/mfrevision.htm) for comment by the A/E/C industry. CSI, based in Alexandria, Va., says Draft 4 came in response to the outcry over an earlier draft, which was deemed too complicated.
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August 11,2010Unity Temple in Oak Park, Ill., one of Frank Lloyd Wright's most significant public buildings, is teetering on the brink of extinction. An early example of the use of reinforced concrete, the 1909 structure suffers from water infiltration, crumbling concrete and a host of other ills.
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August 11,2010Heated towel racks come at a fraction of the cost of competing products, since they use electricity rather than industrial oils. Available in both wall-mounted and freestanding models, the wall-mounted are offered in both hard- and soft-wired versions. Soft-wired Warmrails come with easy-to-use templates; electricians can install hard-wired racks in the time it takes to mount a wall socket.
